Financial Controller

Kenny Recruit are looking for a qualified Financial Controller to join one of their favourite clients! You will be responsible for running the day-to-day finance function, you will report into the Finance Director and have a team reporting into you. As the Financial Controller, you will run the month closing cycle and be challenged to do this within 3-5 days. You will be responsible for the audit, you will business partner with Heads of Departments and have a commercial edge that will help as you will be working with stock.

Our client are an e-commerce retail business who have seen significant growth over the last 10 years. This is an opportunity to shine in a pivotal role, building strong relationships, penetrating new markets, and shaping the future of a thriving division.

Pay: £75,000 - £85,000 per annum dependent on experience) + benefits

Location: Central London (4 days in the office to begin with, moving to 3 after probation)

Working hours: 9:00am - 6.00pm

Key Responsibilities:

Month End

• Consolidated month end reporting in time, with accurate numbers and full balance sheet reconciliations.
• Leading the fast close process including preceding and post-mortem meetings to identify and action improvements for subsequent closes.
• Produce department reports P&L and spend reports monthly.
• Monthly review of any judgements / adjustments to be made.
• Present month end financials to Senior-Leadership team and own the actions log
• Invoicing, paying down and reconciling intercompany positions monthly.
• Leading month end close process and gathering close information from all business teams to enable fast close process.

Controls

• Responsible for financial control, internal and external reporting
• Responsible for ERP bedding in and improvements to become fast, reliable and efficient including access control, process design and reporting templates.
• Design and oversee strong control environment including workflow approvals and challenging where inefficiencies may lie to improve close or turn-around speed
• Leading department business partnering with all key teams by holding monthly meetings, taking actions, prioritising and leaning into requirements
• Prioritise and create roadmap for department developments and focus over following quarter.

ERP

• Administrator and architect of controls over ERP enforcing rigorous control over inputs and outputs to ensure quality data is used by the group.
• Owning reconciliation processes with all sales channels and engaging with internal and external teams to make developments.

Other

• Audit
• Treasury

Requirements:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
• Exceptional system skills.
• Advanced MS Office skills, particularly Excel.
• Ability to meet demanding deadlines, often with competing priorities, and adapts to business needs.
• Ability to absorb complex operational information and produce accurate, intelligent analysis.

Next Steps…

Shortlisted candidates will obviously be contacted for this specific role and if you haven’t heard from us within a week, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We'd love to give feedback to every applicant but due to the sheer volume of applications we receive, unfortunately this just isn't possible.

We will keep your CV on file to contact you with regards to future roles and any other advice to help you. Alternatively, feel free to contact us for a chat.