Job Description

This market leading manufacturing business has an impressive reputation for developing innovative products that set new standards within its global sector. Backed by a multimillion $ business, this organisation is growing both acquisitively and organically, expanding internationally and successfully acquiring market share.

Having experienced substantial growth, the business is now seeking a Financial Controller.

Owning end-to-end finance and partnering the MD, the role includes:

• Ownership for finance across a number of UK and international manufacturing sites, providing an insightful business partnering relationship to local and group senior management team
• Ensure compliance with parent company financial controls, policies, procedures and internal control standards
• Prepare and present 3 year business plan, annual budgets and forecasts for the manufacturing business in addition to providing financial support to bids for future projects
• Own capex including investment analysis, capex controlling and reporting
• Preparation of financial statements, reports and analysis for local management and parent company
• Lead and develop a small finance team
• Deliver monthly management reporting including costs vs. budgets/forecasts, recoveries and variance analysis
• Ensure best practice working capital management including stock control/taking, obsolete stocks, scrap process and maximising supplier terms
• Drive automation of manual processes, assist in the further development of SAP and defining finance related processes

You will have:

• A proven track record of creating a 'right first time' end-to-end financial reporting environment, ideally within both a SME and larger company structure
• Background of providing demonstrable value add financial support across a multi-site international environment
• Measurable examples of coaching financial teams to improved performance
• A well-rounded, emotionally intelligent personality, possessing strong financial acumen, comfortable with the complexities of a multi-national, matrix led structure
• Experience within a hands-on, 'roll your sleeves up' accounting environment and role
• Highly systems literate, ideally experienced with SAP
• An ability to easily alternate between adding insightful analysis and decision support when partnering operational leaders, with the hands-on involvement of delivering the routine reporting of the numbers
• Additional language skills would be a plus

This is a key finance role, supporting the MD of a rapidly growing business that is well backed by a sizeable and successful parent organisation.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• A proven track record of creating a 'right first time' end-to-end financial reporting environment, ideally within both a SME and larger company structure • Background of providing demonstrable value add financial support across a multi-site international environment • Measurable examples of coaching financial teams to improved performance • A well-rounded, emotionally intelligent personality, possessing strong financial acumen, comfortable with the complexities of a multi-national, matrix led structure • Experience within a hands-on, 'roll your sleeves up' accounting environment and role • Highly systems literate, ideally experienced with SAP • An ability to easily alternate between adding insightful analysis and decision support when partnering operational leaders, with the hands-on involvement of delivering the routine reporting of the numbers • Additional language skills would be a plus