Job Description

This role will focus on developing a robust and High Performing finance team, working within a growing and dynamic business with three trading entities and business units. Ensuring that financial information is kept up to date, reliable and relevant, allowing the business to make appropriate decisions about its strategic growth and future. You will manage a medium sized finance team, consisting of three direct reports in the areas of transactional finance, reporting & forecasting and management information.
The principal accountabilities for the role are:

• To ensure the smooth day to day running of the Finance function.
• Full responsibility for month end reporting and forecasting/budgeting in accordance with reporting deadlines.
• Full responsibility for the transactional finance activities of sales ledger, purchase ledger, general ledger and banking operations
• Ensuring that the three trading entities operate under an appropriate level of financial governance and control, maintaining policies and procedures appropriate to them
• This role will play an integral part in managing current projects, ensuring compliance with appropriate revenue recognition standards.
• Direct management and oversight of the audit process and statutory reporting.
• Directly responsible for the treasury function (including cash flow reporting), and working capital including cash collection, purchase ledger and stock control.
• Responsible for approving the monthly payroll of the three trading entities.
• Review of balance sheet reconciliations and control accounts
• Proactively provide insightful information to the executive team, enabling decisions to improve profit and cash flow
• Liaising with tax authorities (including international authorities), tax advisors and group tax manager on VAT, withholding taxes, SAO, PSA, and R&D Claims.
• Oversee improvement or replacement to the ERP system
• Creating a culture of continuous improvement

Key Competencies
Analytical Thinking

• The ability to think clearly, logically and objectively
• To analyze work-related problems in an effective way
• To come to conclusions which are balanced, systematic and rational

Building Relationships

• Recognizing key relationships and making conscious effort to build rapport to enable smooth running of department or service
• Establishing positive relations quickly with stakeholders irrelevant of status
• Demonstrating tact and diplomacy in all professional relationships

Commercial Judgment

• The ability to handle the business in a commercial and financially driven way
• The inclination to maximize revenues and profits
• To minimize costs and constantly improve business efficiency

Results Focus and Initiative

• The drive, determination and commitment to get things done
• To move things forward, achieve, get results and do things better
• Always strives to meet the expected standards of quality and reliability
• Asks questions to better understand the business and the needs of the business

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with a commercial outlook
• Management Experience
• Robust experience of financial accounting and management reporting procedures and routines
• Experience dealing with all aspects of UK tax, particularly VAT. Desirable is an understanding of tax in the US and Singapore
• Resilient and confident individual with consummate influencing and persuasion skills.
• Presentable and personable – the candidate must be immediately credible with stakeholders
• Ability to multi-task and manage time effectively
• Worked as part of a unit responsible for profit and loss
• Ability to set achievable goals and deadlines
• Capacity to multi-task over several on-going projects, and able to define priorities
• Ability to assess work done against future goal and monitor progress
• Able to adopt systematic and pro-active approach that will ensure task completion
• Confidence to recognize and deal with arising problems
• Helps others to learn by sharing knowledge and experience and demonstrating skills as needed