Head of Finance

Kenny Recruit are actively recruiting for a Head of Finance position for an exciting start up retail business, who are looking to scale and sell in the future. They have both e-commerce and 'bricks & mortar' revenue streams. This is a brand new position as the company looks to bring finance in house and have a more strategic and commercially astute individual looking at the numbers! The big focus will be on profit and growth. You MUST have retail experience to be considered for this role.

As the Head of Finance, you will work with and support both Founders and be responsible for ensuring the day to day running of the company’s finance function. There are two businesses and you will be responsible for both businesses’ finances and be required to business partner with both Founders on commercial, strategic and financial matters. We are looking for a safe pair of hands to ensure that four key areas are maintained effectively:

• A strategic mindset who enjoys analysis and making improvements across the board, leading to growth
• Financial compliance
• Cashflow
• Production of monthly management accounts

Pay: £75,000 - £90,000 per annum (dependant on experience) + benefitsLocation: Central London - Soho (4/5 days in the office to begin with)Working hours: 9:00am - 5:30pm

Duties to include but not limited to:

• Responsibility for ensuring all reporting deadlines for the business are met
• Overseeing all financial control activities - month-end close process, preparation and review of management accounts, comprehensive balance sheet substantiation, VAT and other taxation reporting and submission.
• Ensure the timely delivery of KPIs for financial covenant reporting purposes
• Build effective working relationships with cross functional business partners relevant to the Retail businesses to drive process improvements and delivering key business metrics and insight to enable informed decision making.
• Design and implement financial process changes to drive efficiency by leveraging latest technologies
• Review and continually develop and enforce financial policies and procedures to control and manage the use of group assets
• Continuous improvement of analytical processes to facilitate commercial insights
• Review and monitoring of completion of all annual financial statements including liaison with external auditors
• Other ad-hoc finance related duties

What we need:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) is preferable
• Retail & e-commerce industry experience
• 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
• Enjoys challenge and change
• Excellent time management/organisational and multi-tasking skills
• Strong communication skills
• Flexible and adaptable in approach

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