Assistant Financial Controller

ASSISTANT FINANCIAL CONTROLLER / MANCHESTER / HYBRID / £40,000-£48,000 PLUS BENEFITS

Fantastic new opening for an Assistant Financial Controller to join a rapidly expanding international organisation. Highly competitive pay, hybrid working and extensive benefits.

WEX is an innovative payments and technology company looking to forge the way in a rapidly changing environment, with a goal to simplify the business of doing business for our customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love. We are on a journey to build a consistent world class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer driven innovation across all of our strategic initiatives.

Due to internal promotion we are now looking for a new Assistant Financial Controller to join our highly experienced team based in Manchester. The successful candidate will work with a large finance team but will be working in a smaller sub team.

What’s on offer?

• Highly competitive salary up to £40,000-£48,000 dependant on experience
• Annual Company Bonus
• 37.5-hour week - Monday to Friday- no evenings & weekends
• Hybrid working (1-2 days per week in our Manchester City Centre Office)
• Industry leading pension scheme
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays - with the opportunity to purchase additional holidays
• Life assurance
• Income Protection
• Gym Flex membership
• Discounts & perks platform
• Employee wellbeing

Key Responsibilities of the Assistant Financial Controller:

• Manage the preparation of monthly management accounts for a number of trading business in the WEX Europe Services Group
• Support the Financial Controller as needed with all finance tasks
• Preparation of supplementary returns to US head office finance team
• Investigate and explain variances to budget and forecast
• Work with the FP&A team to prepare detailed budget and forecasts
• Liaison with project team to ensure smooth delivery into finance of systems changes and upgrades
• Maintain a culture of ongoing people development and process improvement
• Maintenance of a strong accounting control environment via monthly balance sheet reconciliation process
• Review of month end reconciliations and timely resolution of differences
• Manage AR ledger for relevant businesses
• Preparation of the annual financial statements for the statutory entity including liaison with external auditors with support from ECC and FC
• Finance point of contract for staff in local offices
• Potential ad hoc European travel to assist with compliance obligations e.g. meetings with compliance advisors

Skills & Experience:

• Qualified Accountant - No PQE required
• Ability to interface with all levels of management and staff
• Comfortable working in a large finance team of approx. 40 staff and liaising with all levels of staff
• Excellent technical accounting knowledge
• High level of IT literacy including use of databases (MS Access, Alteryx)
• Ability to effectively delegate tasks whilst retaining responsibility
• Strong organisational skills
• Accomplished communication skills, verbal and written
• Flexible approach and willingness to 'roll up sleeves’
• Astute attention to detail, ensuring that as far as possible items presented are 'right 1st time’

What’s next?

If you feel that you have the necessary skills to be our new Assistant Financial Controller then please APPLY TODAY for immediate consideration.