Job Description

This role can be worked flexibly, including partly from home, and there is the potential to grow this into a full-time role.

• Partner senior management in making critical business decisions and planning to ensure business growth and long-term success.
• Drive the Company’s financial planning by gathering, analysing and presenting key financial data regarding the Company’s performance and risks for internal use in a timely way, retaining constant awareness of the Company’s financial position and acting to prevent problems.
• Continually improve internal accounting control policies, procedures and IT systems.
• Coordinate responsibilities and activities with Cost Accountant.

Key elements

• Determine what information is needed by management and explain numbers to non-financial managers in a way they can understand and action.
• Take a financial lead with Financial Director in departmental and inter-departmental meetings.
• Gather and analyse financial information for corporate accounting, including preparing and publishing a timely monthly management pack to support the Financial Director with narrative and commentary on:
  • budgets;
  • variances;
  • forecasts;
  • risks identified – providing insightful and commercial analysis to minimise and manage risks, suggesting improvements.
• Support budgeting and funding activities.
• Explain to management the financial consequences of business decisions, including advising on the financial implications of projects.
• Monitor spending and financial controls.
• Ensure quality control and compliance through conducting internal business audits, developing and documenting business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
• As MIS super user, empower others to maximise value driven from MIS, suggesting updates and improvements for accounting systems.
• Support month-end and year-end close process.
• Fixed asset register maintenance.
• Act as Data Controller as per Data Protection Act.
• Deputise for the Financial Director as directed by the CEO.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities