Job Description

The role of Head of Finance will drive the financial performance and position of the Division’s business and is a key member of the Division’s senior management team, supporting the Managing Director achieve the agreed business plan. The Head of Finance will have a broad level of operational knowledge to enable critical review and challenge of key decisions and information across all of the Division’s disciplines.

Principle accountabilities of the Head of Finance role include:

Divisional Management

• Develop the business plan for the division with other functional heads within the division and ensuring it is aligned to the Group’s strategic objectives.
• Ownership of the budget and three year forecast for the division, ensuring it is accurate and well managed, and ultimately delivering it.
• Primary divisional contact for divisional HR, payroll, IT and vehicle fleet issues with Group support available.
• Lead and manage the Divisional finance team and ensure accuracy, quality and efficiencies are maximized.

Reporting, Controlling and Operational

• Ensuring divisional compliance with the Group Accounting Manual.
• Manage the interim and year end process with external auditors through to sign off for the division.
• Oversee all month end processes for the division and timely delivery of management information to both the divisional management team and Group.
• Understand the costs and risks for each site, providing active review and challenges of both the costs incurred to date and costs to come.
• Treasury management – ensuring monthly and daily cash flow forecasts for the division are as accurate as possible and divisional adherence to the Prompt Payment Code.
• Accurately and timely completion of returns to Group such as at year end, half year end, trading updates, budgets, pay review, bonus calculations, National Statistics and prompt payments.
• Management compliance and overall responsibility for all taxes relating to the Division. This includes VAT, CIS, payroll taxes, corporation tax and residential property developer tax.

In return we can offer you:

• Competitive salary
• Competitive annual bonus
• Company car cash allowance
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Contributory pension scheme

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Considerable post-qualified experience gained in industry in a role incorporating accounting, financial control and commercial finance/business partnering.
• Experience must include: financial and management accounting including leading month end close, evidence of responding to and working with external auditors, providing analysis, profit and loss and cash flow, forecasting and planning, supporting and challenging businesses to make optimal operational and performance decisions.
• Experience of successfully leading and developing a team.
• Experience of working within a similar role will be preferred.
• Working knowledge of COINS is desirable.
• ACA qualification preferred however CIMA and ACCA will be considered.
• Excellent administration and organization skills
• Analysis, numerical and report writing skills
• Strong management and time management skills
• Strong communication, listening and problem solving skills
• Ability to priorities workload and meet deadlines
• Demonstrates a high level of discretion and confidentiality.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work on own as well as part of a team
• Proficient IT skills along with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and outlook) and the ability to adapt to new systems.
• Committed to diversity and inclusion