Group Financial Controller
- Recruiter
- SF Recruitment Limited t/a SF Group
- Location
- Black Country, West Midlands
- Salary
- attractive salary with significant bonus potential.
- Posted
- 07 Feb 2019
- Closes
- 07 Mar 2019
- Job Title
- Financial Controller
- Category
- Consumer products / FMCG, Retail / Wholesale
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
GROUP FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
Black Country | Attractive package + significant bonus potential
Based in the heart of the Black Country in the West Midlands, our confidential client is a highly successful privately-owned wholesale / distribution group and the largest of their type in the UK.
They have a particularly successful business model, and supply a diverse range of industries from their multi-site network of distribution centres. Operating in a competitive market, they deliver annual revenues of £500m+ and their strategy is to empower business leaders to develop their businesses by offering genuine autonomy and encouraging ownership and accountability.
With the impending retirement of their incumbent Controller, an opportunity presents itself to enhance the capability of their group reporting function.
Our client is welcoming applications from Group Financial Controllers keen to play a major role in the transformation and modernisation of the wider finance team.
Deliverables
- Technical lead for the group, and the ‘go-to’ person for accounting advice
- Audit lead for group, taking responsibility for controlling and delivering a clean audit, on time, and without issue;
- Lead the project to define and implement a new group consolidation tool; encompassing analysis of existing capability, managing the tender process, through to implementation and delivery of the new system;
- Streamline a currently labour-intensive consolidation system, to culminate in an accurate, timely and meaningful reporting pack;
- Drive efficiency and cost savings within the finance team and wider business through automation projects;
- Develop the group reporting team to ensure a sound succession plan is in place;
- Create insightful management information for a multi-million pound central head-office cost function;
- Establish a stronger Tax and Treasury capability, to provide enhanced banking, FX and hedging processes;
- Finance lead for the implementation and monitoring of internal controls.
Profile
- Strong technical finance and accounting experience, likely to be big 4 trained;
- Professionally qualified ([ideally] ACA, ACCA, ACMA) with a strong academic record;
- Group consolidation and reporting to US parent (although no knowledge of US GAAP is necessary);
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of the balance between technical financial accounting and the commercial world;
- Experience of M&A would be advantageous, with exposure to performing due diligence on acquisitions desirable;
- Demonstrable experience of an understanding of privately-owned businesses;
Competencies
- Take pride in the presentation of work to a high/professional standard;
- A self-starter, willing to commit to a plan of action and carry it out, seeking direction where appropriate;
- Strong management skills;
- Excellent communicator and organiser;
- Confident in your own abilities, and able to make decisions;
- Proactive approach to generating new initiatives and ideas;
- Capable of absorbing delegated responsibilities from the Finance Director;
- Drive change, not accepting an ‘always been done that way’ mentality;
- Take pride in getting things right, first time.
Package
Confidential; remuneration is attractive and offers significant bonus potential.
For more information on this Group Financial Controller role or to apply with your CV to our retained consultant James Heffernan, please click the apply button below. Please note any direct or third party CVs will be forwarded to SF Group.