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Financial Controller
Based: Stockport
Salary: up to £80k + bonus + benefits
Our client is a rapidly expanding, highly acquisitive, PE backed business. On an ambitious growth journey, the business has grown massively over the last couple of years and will continue to do so with annual growth of circa 20%+ through organic and acquisition. We are looking for a Financial Controller to oversee a number of business entities, lead a team and be heavily involved in numerous growth projects
Role:
- Manage and develop management accounts team providing reporting and accounting support for business units
- Developing finance and accounting relationships with newly acquired companies, providing training and guidance to adhere to group reporting policies and timeline.
- Ownership of group submissions & reporting at month end
- Identifying areas of improvement and embedding approved changes into management accounts processes.
- Review of balance sheet reconciliations, weekly review of debtor and working capital position.
- Producing subsidiary statutory financial statements
- Support the budget and forecasting cycle as required by Group FP&A team.
- Support Treasury team in weekly Cashflow forecasting process.
- Oversight of VAT returns and provision of accurate tax information to Group Tax Team; supporting on queries.
- Provision of payroll data to Group Payroll Team and review of reports to ensure completeness and accuracy.
- Lead the finance integration of acquired businesses, including acquisition balance sheets, alignment of reporting, consistency of accounting policies.
- Projects involvement including new system and reporting implementations
Skills and experience
- ACCA, CIMA, ACA qualified – 5+ years PQE
- Strong technical financial accounting and reporting ability
- Proven experience in growing SME or PLC environment with full finance understanding
- Strong leader, able to train & develop wider team
Please send your CV for immediate consideration
