Financial Controller

Job Description

Financial Controller | Barlborough | £50,000 - £60,000 + Benefits Macildowie are currently working with a market leading, growing business based in North Derbyshire. They are now seeking a high calibre Financial Controller with a strong operational and technical background to join their team. The role has full accountability for the business unit (£25m t/o - £300m group) P&L and Balance Sheet. There is a small team, 4 in total (includingthis role) so this role will be hands-on and involved in everything finance.So what is the role

• Firstly, youll be managing just 3 team members and will take full responsibility for the Financial Controls and Processes as well as the balance sheet, P&L, Budgets/Forecasts and cash-flow for the group.
• Managing the day-to-day operations of the UK accounting team, ensuring that all processes are completed efficiently and accurately.
• Developing the financial capability of the new SAP ERP system in the UK.
• Embedding the UK accounting team into new ways of working following this period of change, develop and support them to manage the new systems and processes.
• Producing monthly management accounts and producing monthly group reports.
• Producing the year-end accounts to TB level and preparing the statutory disclosures, liaising with our auditors to produce the statutory accounts
• Producing the monthly payroll, supervision of the hourly and pension scheme payroll, including administration of PAYE and pensions.
• Business partnering with stakeholders across the business.
• Produce other regular and ad hoc reports and analysis including standard costing exercises, business case preparation and critique, submission of fixed asset requests.
• Responsible for the preparation and management of the UK Sales, HR, OPEX and Industrial cost budget.
• Analyse, control and challenge overhead costs by department area and liaising with department budget holders.
• Drive the improvement of processes and reports within the accounting team, with a focus on the forecasting and control of manufacturing costs.
• Responsible for the preparation of the half year and year end consolidation package for submission to group.
• Manage the local banking and insurance relationships and requirements.
• Liaison and management of the energy procurement partner.
• Manage all ad hoc returns such as ONS.
• Manage the import/export records maintenance.
• Support with fiscally related Sustainability KPI Group reporting.

So who are you

• You will be fully qualified(ACA/ACCA/CIMA) and have experience in the Manufacturing sector, ideally in a complex environment with ever-changing raw material costs and market factors
• Youll be used to working in a fast paced business and you will thrive on making decisions, improvements to both processes and team capabilities. Experience of developing and delivering through a finance team is essential
• Youll love taking the initiative and at times, being autonomous. Youll be solutions focused and see opportunity rather than issues
• Experience of working through difficult situations and improving business capability
• Practical, very hands on experience of managing financial controls of a £multi-million business
• Able to influence and deliver positive change in the organisation
• Recent experience with SAP would be an advantage

If this role is something that you feel could be for you, please get in touch with to start the discussion.Macildowie is a specialist recruitment consultancy with a rich history of enhancing the careers of professionals across the Midlands and the Northern Home Counties. We have an unrivalled understanding of the local market place and recruit for the majorityof the regions premier employers. To search for all of our live jobs please visit us at macildowie.com.Macildowie are a recruitment business working on behalf of a client to recruit this role. Your personal data may be forwarded to that client company as part of the application process. After applying for this role youll be sent a request for your consentto hold your data on our systems. If you would like information on how we will process your data please go to our website and view our fair processing notices which are located at the bottom of the page under privacy policies. Within the fair processing noticefor Candidates there is guidance on how to amend your contact preferences or exercise your rights relating to personal data. We cant provide direct links as email address and website urls within our job adverts are removed by some of the websites on whichwe advertise.