Group Financial Controller - Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom - EDWARD REED RECRUITMENT LIMITED

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The Role
Edward Reed is actively recruiting for a Group Financial Controller to join our PE backed, Professional Services client.

Our client operates nationally and internationally within a regulated environment.

With continued and ambitious growth plans our client is looking for an experienced, diligent, and commercial finance professional to enhance their established finance team.

The role operates in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and as such requires an adaptable individual driven by continuous improvement.


Responsibilities

  • Multiple entity accounting and consolidation
  • Ensure all financial practices are in line with statutory regulations and legislation
  • Assess future expansion plans from a finance perspective
  • Alongside the FD, oversee group tax planning to support shareholder value
  • Coordination and submission of VAT returns
  • Financial controls and process improvement
  • Management of outsourced payroll in the UK and US
  • Development of a team to meet future needs
  • Support the business in delivery against plan
  • Experienced in analysing, interrogating and interpreting financial reports and accounts
  • Provide commercial input and challenge to the relevant management teams
  • Ability to foster excellent relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Adhoc projects and pieces of analysis to support decision making
  • Ownership of reporting packs and KPIs
  • Revenue recognition and translation of project delivery into the management accounts
  • Budgets and forecasting

Skills and experience

  • Fully qualified (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) with proven experience at this level
  • Demonstrate strong technical capability
  • Impressive leadership skills with a continuous improvement mindset
  • Capable of working in a fastpaced SME.
  • PE experience is desirable though not essential
  • Ability to communicate and articulate finance principles and performance simply

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