Job Description

Duties and responsibilities:

• Monthly management accounts preparation, ensuring commentary on variances is accurate and useful. This will include evaluating, interpreting and investigating the cause of any material variances.
• Enhance profit forecasting system and investigate variances to full conclusion
• Investigate commercial opportunities to support MD in decision making
• Tighten cost control to increase margin per contract
• Account for intercompany transactions pre consolidation.
• Preparation and reporting of budgets and forecasts, working with the management team to interrogate and challenge their financial performance.
• Design, implement and maintain KPI dashboards to support decision making.
• Responsible for addressing queries from the leadership team including producing analysis of profit margins by contract.
• Continuously seek opportunities to improve the performance of the finance function and internal controls through the evaluation and optimisation of processes.
• Integrate with all departments and provide input into tender processes where needed.
• Provide financial information to the Leadership team to enable them to achieve objectives.
• Working with the Company Board in formulating strategy and long term plans.
• Responsible for overall financial control and day to day reporting.
• Lead & develop the small Finance team.
• Formulation and ensuring implementation of Credit Control policy.
• Responsible for Treasury matters including maintaining the relationship with the Bank.
• Researching and reporting on factors influencing business performance.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Qualified Accountant
• Experience of being part of a senior leadership team
• Previous experience managing, mentoring and coaching a team
• Energy, drive and ambition.
• A strategic approach with an eye for detail
• An enquiring mind and an appetite to challenge when necessary