Job Description

Responsibilities

Compliance and stewardship: Ensuring that the Group’s financial integrity and reputation is maintained and enhanced and that the Group’s assets are safeguarded

• Directs all external, reporting and compliance requirements of business; Evaluates when to rely on own knowledge and when to refer to specialists; Recognises that responsibility for accuracy and timeliness remains with BU even when preparation of tax compliance outsourced Undertakes SOX compliance for Business Unit Designs and implements key controls.
• Manages completion of financial statements (for Group purposes and entity requirements); Determines month- and year-end reporting process; Analyses P/L and B/S to identify and then resolve issues; Oversees entire auditor relationship.
• Effective cash management: Implements company financing projects with Group Treasury; Sets and delivers working capital objectives; Analyses and forecasts working capital drivers; Leads and implements cash optimisation plans.

Improving and Simplifying Systems and Processes:

• Leads large scale process simplification projects; Champions process simplification and standardisation; Challenges the business to deliver long and short-term simplification; Anticipates systemic needs and proactively puts systems and processes in place; Oversees process simplification projects to successful implementation; Operates as strategic leader of processes, influencing other departments and stakeholders across the whole business.

Impactful Financial Analysis: Ensuring that the Financial Accounting Team operates as a high performing team. Ensuring that the appropriate information is used in decision-making; performance is accurately measured; forecasted

• Designs creative analytical approaches and links analyses to the business performance and targets; Develops and recommends actions to resolve issues identified; Manages multiple analytical projects by quickly grasping concepts, prioritising and decisiveness; Applies the flywheel and its components in practice.

Managing Below EBITDA Costs:

• Manages complex projects to reduce below EBITDA costs; Oversees compliance obligations successfully to ensure no interest or penalties incurred;

ROTI Management:

• Overseas implementation of projects reducing ROTIs; Proposes new governance procedures to enable active management of ROTIs.

Qualifications

Essential

• ACCA Qualified
• Education: University graduate, qualified accountant
• Experience: Min. 5+ years PQE. A track record of delivery in financial accounting roles with the ability to lead remote teams in matrix structure
• Line Management and team development skills
• Communicating with Impact
• Leading and Motivating a team to out perform
• Highly numerate and analytical, with good attention to detail
• Able to apply intellect and judgement to influence cross-functional colleagues to act on financial recommendations in commercial decisions
• Able to work collaboratively with peers and deliver through team members
• Organised, strong prioritisation skills and delivery to tight timescales
• Drive for results and high personal resilience
• Self-motivated individual with an analytical mind-set to challenge the business
• Mobility - travel regularly within the UK & Ire
• Career progression - an active learner who wants to develop others and progress across nomad as a finance leader. Progression will offer opportunities to relocate within Nomad.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities