Financial Controller

Job title: Financial Controller

Reports to: FD

up to £60,000

Main Purpose of Role

To ensure the overall completeness, accuracy and timeliness of all extrusion financial reporting requirements, within the company and externally as well as to manage the Extrusion Finance Function.

Responsibilities:

• To manage the extrusion Financial Planning & Analysis team (FP&A)
• Production of monthly management accounts in accordance with company requirements
• To interpret financial data and identify opportunities for business improvement
• Improve standards of business partnering within the organisation to embed improvements using support and challenge
• Develop the use of problem solving techniques across the organisation
• Standardise and develop data analysis in collaboration with the central FP&A team
• To co-ordinate the annual AOP process as well as periodic forecast reviews
• Work closely with Financial Accounting, Credit Control and Internal Control Teams

Ensure that all operating values and compliance procedures are adhered to at all times, including quality management, health and safety, legal stipulation and environmental policies as well as exercising a professional duty of care.

Technical Competence

• Supply information when required to allow completion of tasks, reporting in a timely and accurate manner in accordance with requirements
• Assisting with completing all statutory accounting requirements in a timely and accurate manner, including tax packs and full accounts
• Presenting financial results and informative analysis  in an appropriate format and level of detail
• Ensuring that all financial reports and controls are of sufficient standard to avoid any serious audit deficiencies, either as part of Sox or year end audit
• Ensuring the standard costing system is accurate and kept up to date
• Producing the extrusion budgets and forecasts in accordance with internal and external reporting requirements
• Effective people manager, tackling difficult conversations and developing skills to meet current and future business needs
• Dealing with queries in accordance with their requirements

Skills/Knowledge

• Qualified management accountant with experience working in a manufacturing environment
• Excellent knowledge of UK accounting principles and GAAP (generally accepted accounting practice)
• Previous experience of managing and developing a finance team
• Strong Excel skills and knowledge of ERP system preferably Oracle
• Highly numerate, analytical, logical and trustworthy with attention to detail
• Ability to communicate confidentially and effectively with all departments, adopting a Business Partnering approach
• Ability to work accurately and efficiently to tight deadlines
• Good understanding of internal controls preferably Sarbanes Oxley
• Good understanding of business processes
• Strong interpersonal skills to support the Senior Management Team

Impact on Customer

• Provide information for pricing policy decisions
• Indirect influence via creditor days

Leading and Supervising

• Provides others with a clear direction
• Sets appropriate standards of behaviour
• Delegates work appropriately and fairly
• Motivates and empowers others.
• Provides staff with development

Working with people

• Demonstrates am interest in and understanding of others
• Adapts to the team and build team spirit
• Recognises and rewards the contribution of others
• Listens, consults others and communicates proactively
• Supports and cares for others
• Develops and openly communicates self – insight such as an awareness of own strengths and weaknesses

Adhering to Principals &Values

• Upholds ethics and values
• Demonstrates integrity
• Promotes and defends equal opportunities, buildsdiverse teams
• Encourages organisational and individual responsibiliuty towards the community and the environment

Applying expertise and technology

• Applies specialist and detailed technical expertise.
• Develops job knowledge and expertise through continual professional development
• Shares expertise and knowledge with others.
• Uses technology to achieve work objectives,
• Demonstrates appropriate physical co-ordination and endurance manual skills, spatial awareness and dexterity
• Demonstrates an understanding of different organisational departments and functions

Analysing

• Analyses numerical data, verbal data and all other sources of information
• Breaks information into component parts, patterns and relationships
• Probes for further information or greater understanding of a problem
• Makes rational judgements from the available information and analysis
• Produces workable solutions to a range of problems
• Demonstrates an understanding of how one issue may be part of a much larger system

Delivering results and meeting customer expectations

• Focuses on customer needs and satisfaction
• Sets high standards for quality and quantity
• Monitors and maintains quality and productivity
• Consistently achieves project goals