Financial Controller/director - Swadlincote, United Kingdom - Macildowie Recruitment and Retention

Macildowie Recruitment and Retention

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Swadlincote, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Financial Controller/Director | Burton-on-Trent |Engineering/Manufacturing | £55,000 - £65,000

Macildowie are currently working with a long standing, independently owned
, manufacturing businesses who are now seeking to recruit a high caliber
Financial Controller/Directorto join their team.

The role reports to the Managing Director.

The title here isn't really that important, what you actually do is. This isn't a sit back and manage a team sort of FC/FD role. This is a hands on, very involved number 1 in finance. There is only a small team and you will be exposed to all elementsand will be okay with a fairly demanding owner managed business environment.

So, what is the role?

Managing the day to day running of a
small finance team; including appraisals, training, and recruitment
Preparation of
year end Accounts and assisting the auditors with the yearend financial audits
Management of company
cash flow:
Preparation of
manufacturing variances:
Full responsibility for the production
of monthly management account packs, management information, cashflow, balance sheet and P&L reporting to the board:
Working closely with the MD to
develop internal reporting standards and controls
Focus will be on
Management Information, introduction of appropriate
KPI's,
Financial forecasting,
budgeting, and especially management of
short / medium term cash flows:
You will be a confident and self driven accountant, driving individual performance and continual improvement
As well as this, you will be
great with systems, you'll be able to identify
ERP system improvements that can help to refine financial processes, whilst also making sure that the
integrityof that information is correct
Whilst generating the information is important, so is what you use it for You will be someone who provides timely and accurate financial information to drive business outcomes and
changes in behavior across all levels of the group leadership team

So, who are you?

You will ideally have hand on,
SME accounting experience:
Ideally you'll have an understanding of
manufacturing and Contract Accounting:
You will need to hold a professional Accounting qualification.

(ACMA/ACCA/ACA):

You'll be used to working in a
fastpaced business and you will thrive on making improvements to processes.
You'll be solutions focused and see opportunity rather than issues
Experience of working through difficult situations and improving business capability

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Practical, hands on experience of managing financial controls of a
£multi-million business

If this role is something that you feel could be for you, please get in touch with
Tom -to start the discussion.