£ 40000 Per year
Financial Controller
Full Time
Job Description
- Monthly management accounts including narrative report on budget & forecast variances.
- Monthly Project cost reporting including narrative report on budget & forecast variances.
- Weekly cash flow information to assist the Company plan payments.
- Monthly invoice review and associated billing administration.
- Insurances, including assets, professional indemnity, travel and events.
- Authorities Document and ensuring all staff adhere to it.
- Systems and procedures to ensure integrity of accounting information and safe custody of assets, including procedures to eliminate and detect fraud or theft of company assets.
- Day to day management of department staff including annual appraisal and recruitment as necessary.
- Annually, preparation of detailed financial budgets and cash flows.
- Ensuring the appropriate expenditure records is maintained.
- Pension, healthcare and staff welfare schemes.
- Grant claims submissions.
- Sales ledger, purchase ledger and nominal ledger and maintenance thereof.
- Expenditure authorization procedures including expenses reimbursement.
- Monthly bank reconciliations and checking control accounts match including sales ledger, purchase ledger, VAT account and PAYE/NI.
- Company debt and credit control
- Payroll and payroll annual returns.
- Quarterly VAT returns.
- Annual accounts file for auditors and drafting of statutory accounts.
- Assist the Directors with effective communication/reporting of the company's financial performance.
- Completing annual returns and company secretarial filing.
- Ensuring compliance with legal requirements, other obligations and identified best practice.
- Ensure the financial elements of the company's order, incident and billing management systems are correctly set up and maintained and suitable outputs are achieved.
- Health and Safety management.
- Quality Control - ensure the Company's operations and functions are undertaken in accordance with the approved QA procedures or Company standards and any improvements are identified.
- Departmental Support - support as necessary the finance, sales, service and operations functions as necessary to maximize the Company success and achieve set targets and objectives.
- Communication - maintain excellent communications with all employees, clients and customers as required by the specific requirements of your role and to proactively ensure consistent and productive co-operation and dialogue between all Company personnel regardless of department to endeavor to ensure ongoing success for the Company as a whole.
- Undertake any reasonable request to assist the Company meet internal and external expectations
- Supplier relationships - build, maintain and grow all supplier relationships whilst discussing production issues and looking for ways to optimize the business and improve terms.
- Ensure the database is maintained and invoice records are accurately maintained.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Be newly qualified, or in the latter stages of qualifying, ACA/ACCA/CIMA.
- Team management experience.
- Ability to operate in a fast-moving environment.
- Have exposure to managing key stakeholder relationships.
- Show strong communication skills and an ability to build relationships.
- Previous experience within the telecommunications industry would be beneficial, but not essential.
- Experience in a production merchandising role in a fast- paced entrepreneurial retail environment.
- Familiarity with managing product life cycles and understanding of production for private label ranges.
- A collaborative team player with excellent listening, communication and people skills.
- Flexible approach to working within the team, managing evolving responsibilities. Open minded and willing to learn. Mature and able to apply critical thinking to problem solve.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel. Able to work with cost, retail margin formulas to manage and maintain accurate records.
- Communication skills - contribute to the excellent communication needed with our suppliers and International teams with the goal of achieving a 'one team' approach.
- Self-motivated - comfortable and able to work independently as well as part of a team.
Reference no: 98765