Financial Controller
Competitive package
Hook Norton
- Varied and interesting Financial Controller opportunity
- A local business with over 150 years of trading heritage
Details about the Client
Sitting in its picturesque, mellow Cotswold Hills landscape, Hook Norton is a proudly independent and passionate family business that takes the very best of its handcrafted brewing heritage and combines it with a thoroughly modern approach, to create a range of real ales for today's drinkers to enjoy.
Hook Norton is one of only 30 family owned breweries and is the finest example of a Victorian Tower Brewery in the country. Of course, the brewery is about so much more than just its fantastic range of award winning beers. We welcome over 25,000 visitors a year to our Visitor Centre and 35 of our pubs are at the heart of many of local communities, serving great drink and food to the region.
Many of you will know Hook Norton, having tasted one of our beers, visited one of our Hook Norton pubs or indeed having come for a brewery tour, but few will know the full story. Our history and heritage are a large part of the picture, but so too are all the things that we are already achieving today and, of course, our plans for the future.
Detailed Job Description
- Day to day supervision and development of the small finance team.
- Preparation and maintenance of the annual budget model (excel based) phased by month and containing detailed analysis of sales values/volumes, production costs and departmental overheads. Periodic update of the 5 year plan model in similar format.
- Preparation of detailed monthly management accounts from the Chorus general ledger to a tight deadline for distribution to the board prior to each monthly board meeting. Comparisons to budget and prior year with explanation of variances.
- Control and production of monthly sales volume, value and margin reports using eXporter.
- Production of a rolling forecast model (excel) updated monthly after incorporation of the latest actual accounts. The model to include balance sheet and cash flow.
- Production of the annual accounts for presentation to the auditors within 5 weeks of the financial year end together with all required analyses, explanations and supporting documentation for audit and tax purposes.
- Running of weekly and monthly payrolls and online submission of tax year end HMRC returns.
- Maintenance of all monthly financial controls and checklist including all general ledger controls and fixed asset registers.
- Ensuring that all systems comply with good accounting practice, that they are legally compliant and all statutory returns are submitted in a timely manner including HMRC payroll returns, VAT returns, beer duty returns and ONS survey returns.
- Maintain and regularly update manufacturing costs for each size and brand of beer and ensure that all Chorus product records are updated accordingly.
- Maintain and update selling prices for all own beer and bought in products for both duty changes and selling price reviews and ensure
Candidate's Profile
The ideal Financial Controller:
Must hold a relevant accounting qualification such as CA, ACA, ACCA or CIMA, with several years' post-qualification experience in a commercial environment preferably manufacturing. Capable of working with, and controlling a small team. Experience of using an integrated accounting package including financials, sales order processing and inventory is essential as is an advanced working knowledge of Excel. Must be prepared to become involved in day to day activities ranging from payroll, rental invoicing, financial controls, credit control, trial balance and management accounts preparation, costing, budgets and long term planning and the maturity and confidence to be a strong member of the senior management team.
What's on offer
A competitive remuneration package is available.
Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents. All third party applications will be forwarded to Michael Page.
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