The Role

This role is responsible for leading and developing the management accounts team, ensuring high quality financial reporting, strong financial controls, and efficient end to end finance pro-cesses across the organisation. The role will oversee, management accounting and transactional finance, process improvement initiatives, driving operational excellence and supporting the Group Financial Controller in delivering a robust financial control environment.

Duties/Responsibilities

Financial Operations

• Lead all finance operations activity, including management accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank reconciliations, and cash management.
• Own the month end timetable, ensuring accurate, timely and well controlled reporting across all entities
• Oversee working capital management, ensuring effective cashflow forecasting, debtor re-covery, supplier payment cycles, stock controls and bank management.
• Lead the production of consolidated monthly management accounts, ensuring outputs are accurate, insightful, and aligned to business needs
• Collaborating with departmental heads and the wider finance team to develop and manage budgets and forecasts.
• Provide high level P&L and cashflow commentary to senior management on financial per-formance, proactively identifying and delivering profit improvement initiatives across the business.
• Driving an effective financial control environment, with high quality reconciliations and pro-cesses.
• Assisting the Finance Accounting Manager and Group Financial Controller with ad-hoc analysis and projects as required.

Financial Analysis

• Analysing the P&L and cashflow variances against budget and forecast, ensuring effective communication of the results and the commercial points/actions.
• Analyse, report and control of consumable stocks.
• Improving the balance sheet reconciliation process to enable best in class reporting, and analysis of EBITDA to cash.
• Support the Finance team and business with ad hoc projects as required.

Experience Required:

You will ideally be qualified with experience of managing teams, being responsible for month end reporting in a fast paced environment. The company offers a competitive salary and generous benefits package with lots of opportunities to develop your career.