Job Description

Reporting to the Finance Director, the Financial Controller is a key role within the UK finance team, responsible for managing the statutory reporting process, ensuring compliance and integrity of procedures, controls and balance sheet recognitions for the UK entities.

Responsibilities;

• Production of statutory accounts, and management of external year end audit, to strict deadlines
• Responsible for the maintenance and improvement of the internal control environment and review of outputs (balance sheet responsibility / reconciliations)
• Oversee reconciliation of revenue and ensure accuracy of revenue recognition
• Management of the company's financial controls, including maintenance of the general ledger, month end close and associated control processes
• Oversight on monthly P&L results, including overall personnel costs and completeness and accuracy of intercompany/secondary charges
• Oversight of shared service team outputs to ensure timeliness and accuracy of UK accounting records
• Oversight of key business systems including Salesforce to ensure accuracy of data to be included in accounting records; provide support to business in resolving issues or queries
• Oversight and approval of bi-weekly and ad hoc payment runs, and support with debt collection activities as needed
• Tax reviews
• Drive improvements and efficiencies and raise financial awareness across the business
• Project work to build business and improve streamline systems, processes and control
• Support on ad-hoc projects and information requests as required

This is a 6 month Fixed Term Contract.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience in statutory and compliance reporting requirements and processes, including co-ordination of year end audit, with technical excellence in IFRS reporting
• Organized, detail oriented, self-starter; able to work autonomously when required
• Ability to work under pressure in a dynamic environment and quickly be able to identify accounting problems and propose solutions
• Good quality decision making and ability to plan, prioritize
• System skills preferred: SAP, SalesForce, Tagetik, MS Office (especially Excel and PowerPoint)
• Experience of working in an international / matrix environment and prior experience of working with a shared service/BPO model would be beneficial
• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• 3+ years of experience in a similar capacity
• Qualified by experience will be considered based on merit