Senior Finance Manager - FTC
- Recruiter
- Marks Sattin
- Location
- England, West Yorkshire, Bradford
- Salary
- £60000 - £80000 per annum
- Posted
- 16 Aug 2019
- Closes
- 23 Aug 2019
- Ref
- ryj98768
- Contact
- Ryan Johnson
- Job Title
- Financial Controller
- Category
- Retail / Wholesale
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
Currently recruiting for a Senior Finance Manager for a leading Plc in their logistics and distribution business. This a true market leading Plc business with a permanent opportunity on offer after the 6 month FTC role, this is one of the most interesting divisions with a genuine opportunity to drive change and add value.
Job Description
- Input into the annual business plan and improvement programmes for Finance and other business areas
- Drive a culture of financial and operational control and optimisation
- Work with multiple business areas to build budgets for key financial metrics, ensure these are understood and provide challenge and action when not met
- Drive the team to take ownership for the planning and management of financial processes, ensuring control throughout; review and challenge to ensure accuracy and value add output
- Deep understanding of the current trading environment, investigating and articulating the short term and long term implications of any changes to senior stakeholders
- Lead and deliver change activity focused on improving sales, service, profitability and cash. Create a restless culture of continuous improvement across the function to focus on services, costs, cash flow by involving colleagues in joint problem solving
- Support senior managers and directors in the delivery of medium sized budgets along with supporting smaller budget areas (multi millions)
- Develop and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders to understand and meet their needs; driving a culture of teamwork across the function and wider organisation
- Provide leadership to the team, supporting and developing colleagues.
The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant with Retail/ Distribution or Logistics experience and possess a background in commercial or operational finance with significant stakeholder management experience. The candidate will ideally have worked in a large, complex and fast paced environment.