Financial Controller
Bristol
£35-40k plus benefits
Our thoroughly exciting brand based and customer focused client, is seeking a talented Financial Controller to join the team.
Through your insightful commercial and financial analysis and your careful financial control, you’ll help drive the business on their journey of sustainable growth.
You’ll business partner with all areas of the company, really getting under the skin of the business to develop further opportunities. The right person will be able to develop the core elements of this role and grow it into an even more senior role as the business continues to push forward.
Key responsibilities
Oversee and manage a small finance team across all areas of bookkeeping and transactional finance - purchase and sales ledger; banking and petty cash; payroll, VAT and HMRC statutory requirements.
Monthly management accounts production, as well as weekly, quarterly and year end management reporting.
Create and present all financial reporting
Ensure robust financial controls are in place
Review and improve all financial processes, fostering a continuous improvement environment
Develop and maintain budgets and forecasts
Lead negotiations and relationships for all corporate funding to support growth
In time build a dashboard of analysis, based around customer insight, margins and pricing, production materials and costs – all developed through a thorough understanding of the business and it’s drivers.
Manage insurance renewals and claims
Commercial and financial support to the Board as required
Skills and experience
Qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA accountant; late stage part qualified with appetite to qualify, or appropriate experience
Broad, all encompassing, financial management experience to include financial accounting and ideally management accounting
Ideally finance skills honed in a small to medium sized growing business
Proven finance business partnering skills
Developed relationship engagement and management experience – able to communicate in ‘real’ terms to a range of non-finance stakeholders
Hands-on attitude – able to support and lead your team in all areas of finance
Inspirational – both to your team and the wider business. Help them understand the importance of finance in a sound commercial decision making process.
Analytical – able to build a clear and concise dashboard of financial and commercial insight
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