Finance Director

Job Description

Are you ready for the move into a leadership role and stretch yourself into an exciting fast growing manufacturing environment backed by P.Eif so, then this could be you! Our client are seeking a hands on finance leader who will roll up their sleeves to organise and develop a team, business partner with the Group Finance Director and other senior stakeholders aswell as supporting teams acrossthe entire business.The PersonThe ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) possessing a background in a fast-moving manufacturing business holding not only a high level of technical financial knowledge, but proven leadership skills developed in demanding settings.Areas of responsibility will include and not limited to:

• Analyse and report on all aspects of the financial performance of the Company.
• Ensure compliance with accounting and reporting regulations
• Develop and implement accounting policies.
• Assess, manage, and minimize financial risk at all levels.
• Develop monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting
• Ensure monthly management accounts are prepared timely manner & provide commentary on key variances against budget & forecast
• Ensure the accurate recording of VAT transactions, and submission of VAT returns
• Ownership of fixed assets register and monthly depreciation calculations
• Ownership of monthly accruals and prepayments schedules
• Manage cash-flow, including all aspects of working capital (such as debtors, creditors, stock) and capital expenditures.
• Prepare a cash flow forecast on a monthly basis
• Ownership of balance sheet account reconciliations
• Prepare monthly revenue reconciliation and completeness of income reporting
• Assist in the preparation of the yearend accounts and where applicable liaise with external auditor/accountants
• Support the CFO on selected high value projects cost control and reporting
• Working with non-finance functions to assist with annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting
• Review debtors and management of credit control
• Review payroll entries and resolve any issues with the external payroll provider
• Ad-hoc analysis and reports as and when required, whilst driving change and automation of manual processes
• Assist implementation of new IT systems
• Oversee insurance and work closely with brokers/insurance providers.
• Supervise, recruit, and train all members of finance team and accounting staff.

Cost of Goods Manufactured

• Develop and maintain cost of goods workings for key products and production processes.
• Monthly calculation and journal posting of COGS
• Reporting on actual COGS with variance analysis against budgeted/forecasted costs
• Prepare quarterly COGS forecast for key products and processes

Finance Business Partnering

• Work with Operations department heads and project leads to help facilitate accurate and timely budgeting and forecasting.
• Feedback to Manufacturing and Operations departments their actual results vs budget/forecast each month and perform variance analysis to understand the key drivers and reasons.
• Add value by helping give Manufacturing and Operation departments financial insight into activities and highlighting cost savings.

This role represents an excellent stepping stone to become a CFO and your track record will need to demonstrate strong organisation skills, the ability to prioritise tasks, manage team workloads and demonstrate the ability of identifying and implementingopportunities for continuous improvement.Benefits:

• Pension (Auto enrolment)
• 25 days holidays (plus bank holidays)
• Reward Gateway
• Cycle to work scheme
• Octopus Electric Vehicle
• Share options - Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI)

THIS ROLE WILL REQUIRE YOU TO WORK 4 DAYS AT THEIR OFFICES AND 1 DAY WFH