Financial Controller

My Cheshire based client is currently looking to appoint a Financial Controller to assist with the running of their exceptionally strong finance function.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the preparation of monthly management accounts for the international businesses under tight reporting deadlines to the parent company
• Investigate and explain variances to budget and forecast.
• Work with the FP&A team to prepare detailed budgets and forecasts
• Business Partnering - prepare monthly review of financial and non-financial performance for discussion
• Develop strong relationship with business unit leaders to enable an effective business partnering process
• Manage a junior finance team
• Liaison with the project team to ensure smooth delivery into finance of system changes and upgrades
• Maintain a culture of ongoing people development and process improvement
• Maintenance of a strong accounting control environment via monthly balance sheet reconciliation process
• Review of month end reconciliations and timely resolution of differences
• Manage AR ledgers for relevant businesses
• Preparation of the annual financial statements for statutory entities including liaison with external auditors
• Assistant with finance projects

Candidate requirements

• Qualified accountant
• Experience of working in a large finance team and liaising with other Financial Controllers
• Excellent technical accounting knowledge
• High level of IT literacy including the use of databases
• High level communication skills (verbal and written)
• Flexible approach, strong attention to detail and the ability to delegate