Financial Controller

Are you looking to relocate to beautiful North Devon

Financial Controller

up to £65, 000

plus 15% bonus

Plus contributory pension

Plus high end benefits package

About the Company

Our client is a leading manufacturer who pride themselves on delivering competitive prices, clear quotations and excellent service. With state of the art production facilities and part of a wider successful group this is a great opportunity to help deliver first class financial analysis, forecasting and controls for a multi million pound local operation.

About the Role

The main purpose of the Financial Controller:

• To continuously improve business methods and provide excellent analysis that can be the basis for strategic decisions.
• Identify key actions both within the business and individual customers and prospects that will improve long term profitability.
• Manage financial aspects of operation to a level of excellence and develop all the finance team to achieve their key result areas and develop to their potential.
• Support the General Manager and Senior Management Team in commercial and strategic decision making.

Responsibilities of the Financial Controller:-

• Undertake business analysis and advise the local management on business mix, cost structure and capital base. Initiate and manage projects to improve business control and profitability, prioritising such projects based on business impact.
• Evaluate new suppliers/products/services which enable improvements within the business or which increase the value of our offer to customers.
• Support Line Managers in reducing the costs within their control.
• Manage costing systems and ensure that effective business controls are in place to ensure costs are controlled and profit maximised.
• Lead the annual budget and quarterly forecast processes, including presentations to the UK Board.
• Use benchmarking information to ensure improvement opportunities within administration and production are identified and acted upon.
• Manage issues relating to auditors and legal advisers.
• Vet all major capital proposals before they are submitted for board approval.
• Ensure debt control is managed, and cash flow maximised.
• Ensure all HFM Health and Safety reporting is accurate.
• IT compliance and control.

Qualifications:-

To be considered for the role you will require a recognised accountancy qualification Professional Accounting Qualification (ICAEW/CIMA/ACCA/CIPFA or equivalent) and will need to be able to demonstrate the following:

Required Skills:-

• Collaborative mindset and excellent people management skills including communication, training and leadership ability skills with the ability to align, empower and inspire others.
• Experience of working at Senior Management level.
• People Management skills and experience.
• Strong IT skills, working knowledge of Accounting, Microsoft and MRP packages.
• Confident, strong minded and interactive.
• SAP knowledge would also be an advantage.
• Sound knowledge and experience of management accounting in a large organisation.
• Awareness and understanding of business and pricing mechanisms and the effect of decision making within the business.
• Problem solving both internally and externally.
• Confident and diplomatic with customers, suppliers and team members.
• Ability to manage work to deadlines and manage this within the team, minimising conflict.
• Ability to analyse and explain variances to expected outcomes.
• Ability to plan long term and provide solutions to new and existing problems.
• Continually looking at ways of improving business performance.
• Ability to see tasks and projects through to their final outcomes and provide conclusions on the results.

Preferred Skills

• Systems and Programmes utilised:
• SAP
• Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office products
• HFM/Hyperion
• Navision
• Abaca/TMS
• Top 10 in Ops Excellence
• BI Executive Viewer
• Time & Attendance (T&A)
• Packaging 3000
• SPOCS

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