Job Description

Responsible for timely production of monthly management accounts & board packs, VAT returns, cash flow forecasting, budgeting and audit as well as improving processes and implementing controls. Promote an ambitious and can-do attitude and culture throughout the Finance Department. Work closely with the Managers and Surveyors to ensure the financial information is accurate.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Producing the monthly management accounts and executive board packs on a timely basis, including reviewing actuals costs against budget costs and providing commentary where necessary.
• Reviewing job margins & challenge surveyors and project manager on any significant margin variations or accruals.
• Working the relevant manager and preparing annual and midyear budgets and updating rolling forecasts in the management accounts.
• Reviewing the month end processes and making improvements to eliminate any non-value adding activities.
• Reviewing financial controls and processes and making agreed changes where necessary.
• Ensuring the business operates within the company’s mission statement, and core values.
• Processing monthly payroll journals and reconciling salary, PAYE & NIC control accounts and reconciling figures with HMRC records.
• Dealing with HMRC queries and reporting any findings.
• Producing & reviewing the 13-week cash flow forecast and working with the finance director in managing cash flow constraints.
• Reviewing weekly supplier and subcontractor payments and authorizing payment on the banking system.
• Raising and authorizing ad-hoc payment as and when they are needed.
• Producing, reviewing and processing P11D’s, Vat Returns and PAYE submissions.
• Producing, reviewing and processing monthly journals including prepayments and accruals.
• Ensuring that balance sheet accounts are fully reviewed reconciled before month end closure.
• Provide support to the accounts department as and when needed.
• Super user of the system and supporting users on the system (4PS-NAV).
• Supporting the Board on ad-hoc projects and reports to support senior management understand the business trends and make decisions.
• Ensuring appropriate financial and management controls are in place, communicated and effective.
• Ensuring information systems and technology are adequate for the business, effective, up to date, secure and operational.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Qualified ACCA or CIMA
• Proven track record of successfully managing diverse teams.
• Effective financial planning, budget and cost management.
• Experience as part of a leadership team driving growth in a business.
• Proven track record of achieving targets.
• Working Capital and cash flow management experience.
• Construction experience would be advantage.
• Significant experience of operating at senior management.
• Delivery of process and service improvement.
• Commercially astute and is focused on delivering solutions and results.
• Demonstrate leadership skills and have the ability to build a successful and engaged team.
• Excellent team player with exceeding organizational and people skills and is engaging and possess a down to earth approach.
• Highly literate, with strong leadership and management experience.
• Construction programme generation experience.
• Highly numeric with advance IT skill and highly proficient with Excel spreadsheets (Sage 50 & Nav).
• Highly ambitious and motivated, work autonomously to priorities their own workload to meet dead-lines and targets.
• Take ownership and responsibility for own actions and decisions.
• The ability to use information and apply experience and judgment to make sound and timely decisions.