Key Accountabilities
• Effective daily management of the finance function for efficient production of financial information to deadlines
• Work with Finance team in providing relevant information for production of timely and accurate consolidated management accounts to specified and agreed deadline
• Ensure effective working capital management. Daily bank reconciliations and weekly, monthly and future cashflow forecasting
• Ownership of AP and AR ledgers for the company and all associated companies
• Oversee invoicing and credit control processes and procedures to ensuring that best practice is observed. Able to make and improve current practices.
• Cashflow modelling, data capture and analysis
• Manage intercompany transactions in a timely and accurate manner
• Manage purchase ledger processes and procedures
• Ensure the timely return of HMRC and other legal forms
• Create new and innovative ways of reporting sales and purchase ledger activity across the business and associated companies
• Active involvement in contract pricing and modelling
• Improve financial systems and procedures to maintain and implement the best financial controls
• Financial reports innovation, implementation and distribution
• Assist with and suggest cost reduction of overheads through intelligent ways of working
• Finance projects and added value work
• Ensure team development and motivation
• Ensure the Finance Team add value to the business
• Other ad hoc assignments within skills and capabilities
• Any other financial, administrative or other tasks as and when they arise within skills and capabilities
• Line management responsibilities and associated tasks for the Finance team.
Performance Measures
• Development of a first class finance team
• AR and AP ledgers under control and completely up to date
• No aged debt problems
• Effective working capital controlled to targets set
• Timely invoicing and credit control to targets
• Increased data analysis, modelling and reporting
Person Specification
• Ideally hold relevant Accountancy qualification either ACA or ACCA
• Previous experience in a financial management role
• Able to demonstrate experience of managing, leading, coaching and developing high performing teams
• Able to demonstrate the development of an accounting function with experience of growing a department in relation to staffing number and increased duties.
• Able to demonstrate competency and versed in the development of procedures and control mechanisms.
• Positive, can-do attitude with a willingness to meet targets.
• Open approach to new challenges
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to communicate well at all levels with various stakeholder groups.
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