Financial Controller
- Recruiter
- The accountancy Recruitment Group
- Location
- Leeds, West Yorkshire
- Salary
- £60,000 - £70,000
- Posted
- 01 Jun 2021
- Closes
- 29 Jun 2021
- Job Title
- Financial Controller
- Category
- Property / Housing
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
Interim Financial Controller | Leeds | £60,000 - £70,000
The Opportunity
Immediate requirement for a confident Qualified finance professional seeking a new challenge to begin in June 2021.
You’ll be the primary finance contact for the £20m turnover business (a thriving subsidiary of a large profitable group). Your role reports to the MD locally and you will provide a key financial sounding board to the Directors / senior leadership team.
The business is expanding and you will play an integral part in improving controls, developing reporting and providing valuable business partnering.
You’ll provide credible and timely P&L reporting to allow decisions to be made efficiently and based upon reliable financial evidence. This is a business with a high volume of data and you will need excellent Excel skills and an ability to distill the financial information to provide easy-to-interpret summaries around costs, variances, margins, profit stream etc.
You will manage the finance team (5) and have an ability to bring out the best in others as a confident and approachable mentor.
You will be:
- A professional, diligent and commercially-astute finance professional with a track record of success within challenging SME environments.
- Hands on in your approach and comfortable in a role which requires plenty of ‘doing’ and well as reviewing the work of others.
- Someone who is able to proactively deliver change – you will enjoy enhancing controls and processes and improving efficiencies across the finance team.
- Someone who enjoys communicating with non finance colleagues.
- Calm, approachable and level-headed. There is plenty to get stuck into and challenges to overcome – the MD is looking for someone who can make inroads to the change in a calm and systematic manner.
- Qualified
- Able to start immediately.
There is potential scope for the role to become permanent.
Apply now
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