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    Group Financial Controller - England, United Kingdom - Edward Reed Recruitment Ltd

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    Group Financial Controller / Business Partner
    Group Financial Controller / Business Partner, Northern England with regular travel, Attractive package including benefits

    Partly employee-owned, WCF is a £200m+ turnover group made up of decentralised businesses operating across retail/mail order, e-commerce fulfilment, logistics and leisure sectors.

    Each business is given significant autonomy to ensure that customers are placed at the heart of everything they do.
    Reporting to the Head of Finance based at the head office in Brampton, Cumbria as well as a presence in the respective business units:
    Improve financial performance of the various businesses by producing insightful recommendations, benchmarking and analysis
    Devote significant time working in the individual businesses to build collaborative partnerships with the respective teams and General Managers to support the delivery of their financial objectives whilst maintaining regulatory and statutory compliance at all times
    Promote and support the individual personal development of the finance team
    Partner with senior leaders, providing them with in-person expertise, insight, oversight, challenge, audit and value-adding decision-making support, to help them deliver their strategies
    Lead the team to ensure the accurate and timely facilitation of group management and statutory accounts and KPI reports to reporting timetables
    Summarise the month and YTD position against budget, prior year and prior month and provide insightful analysis, benchmarking and comparatives for the Board, Executive team, and General Managers
    Assess the impact of current financial performance on the achievement of medium and long-term objectives and propose options for alternative courses of action as and when necessary
    Prepare a monthly consolidated balance sheet, validating the integrity of the data to ensure it provides an accurate narrative of current position
    Co-ordinate year-end consolidation, audit, taxation and statutory reporting process
    Adopt a sound system of working capital and cash management, particularly around customer credit limits, stock turns and the payment of suppliers
    Budgeting and Strategic Planning
    Contribute to the strategic business development dialogue by challenging assumptions and decision making, making recommendations to the Head of Finance
    Ensure that the financial budgets for individual businesses reflect the agreed strategies and business plans
    provide sufficient challenge and analysis to the numbers and discuss with the General Managers and Head of Finance
    Implement a robust system of analytical review, internal control, credit referencing and internal auditing to give the Executive Directors confidence in the numbers being presented
    Highlight areas of concern or weakness regarding financial controls and suggest how they could be improved
    Professionally qualified accountant (ACA/ ACMA / ACCA)
    Ability to work as a trusted business partner, advising business unit leaders & General Managers
    Provide inspiring leadership to team members, wherever they are located, ensuring that they have the support, resources and training to deliver on their objectives
    Strong financial modelling and Excel skills


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