UK FC

UK Financial Controller

To £90,000 (dependent on experience) + 25% bonus + benefits

Northampton

Manufacturing sector

This international manufacturing business plays a key role in the production of our everyday products. Having experienced record-breaking growth over the past 4 years, the business continues to expand across several regions.

This highly visible role reports directly to the Group CFO and will own end-to-end finance for the UK entity in addition to some elements of Group responsibility.

Responsible for the financial management of the operating activities of the UK divisions: Sales, Manufacturing and Group Services. This is a senior role within the global finance team and will partner the CFO, Group FC, senior commercial and operational management of the UK Division.

Role includes:

Provide business partner support to the UK Sales division, driving improved insight, ensuring effective commercial processes are in place, developing appropriate profitability, value chain analysis and cost and productivity models
Ensure all new capex for the UK divisions is supported with a business case and cost benefit analysis and subsequently tracked against approved capex and benefits.
Maintain and continuously improve the financial controls for the UK Divisions
Responsible for the UK Division's external audit, liaising with auditors and providing complete and timely inputs to the Group Audit
Define and document suitable process maps and controls for all financial operations in line with Group Policies
Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations, including intergroup accounts, to ensure a clean balance sheet position is reported on a monthly basis
Provide the necessary input to the Group's transfer pricing requirements including cost and activity inputs for the management fee recharges to the group.
Responsibility for Payroll, P11ds, VAT, Duty reporting, filing and compliance for the UK legal entity
Responsibility for compliance to UK Government changes to VAT, making tax digital, IR35
Provide insightful commentaries to support management reporting
Lead all UK divisions forecasts processes in keeping with Group requirements
Establish efficient record to report processes to deliver on time and in full financial reports
Maintain an accurate and complete cashflow forecast for the UK legal entity in line with group requirements
Management of the UK finance team
Key involvement in the design and evolution of financial performance reporting including leveraging existing date, new reporting, working closely with Business Insight team

Candidate profile requirements:

Qualified accountant, ideally with experience of the manufacturing sector
Good level of technical and operational accounting understanding
Highly skilled in FP&A and driving business insight
Demonstrable experience of identifying and executing enhancements through the finance reporting environment
Impressive levels of communication skills to enable seamless stakeholder engagement including Board level
Energy and drive to 'get stuck in' to a manufacturing environment and rapidly add genuine value
Systems and data savvy