Financial Controller

MacKenzie King are delighted to be recruiting a Financial Controller for a local, growing business, based in Woodbridge. Reporting into the Finance Director you will have one direct report and work closely with the senior stakeholders of the business.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the Finance Director & other senior stakeholders
• Timely and accurate delivery of the month-end close process and providing required information to support monthly management pack
• Managing the half-year and year-end annual accounts process including the completion of any audit requirements
• Manage the day-to-day relationship with the group’s auditors including fees and minimise overruns
• Own the group’s IFRS accounting policies and ensure timely adoption of changes to accounting standards, also ensuring compliance with standards and upfront identification of management estimates and interpretation, with accounting papers approved by the Finance Director as necessary
• Providing commentary and reports on the month-end/half-year/annual accounts for both internal and external stakeholders
• Production of quarterly, half-year and year-end reports if required when/if the company is listed, or to third parties such as banks
• Developing, documenting & improving business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
• Processing and managing monthly payroll, including pension payments
• Processing and managing quarterly VAT returns, and co-ordinate overseas specialist advisors to ensure compliance with applicable equivalent sales tax reporting
• Preparation of annual budgets for departments
• Liaising with external firms such as auditors, HRMC, tax partners and banks
• Provide support to the Accounts Assistant in issuing invoices and processing bills as well as making payments
• Contributing to business plans and forecasting the future performance of the business
• Ad-hoc projects within the finance department as required
• Supporting in preparing the finance team and wider business for further PE Investment and to become PE backed
• Support for acquisitions, including financial due diligence, post-acquisition integration and acquisition accounting
• Own the group’s treasury processes to ensure liquidity and management of FX risks
• Review and monitoring of the Groups tax position, calculations, and filings
• Oversight of the group’s CRM system (HubSpot) to ensure it provides accurate, complete, and timely reporting and forecasting
• Line management of the Accounts Assistant, ensuring development plans are in place and assisting the FD in the recruitment and development of future hires into the finance team

Experience

• Fully qualified in a recognised accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)
• Significant post-qualified experience in a similar Financial Controller position
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word). Ideally also Sage
• Experience in audit and/or working within an internal finance department in a similar role is highly desirable
• Experience in Practice/Corporate Finance is an advantage
• Experience working in a SME with exponential planned growth
• Experience leading and developing a team
• Must be a team player and willing to provide support where needed
• Experience in producing basic models
• Experience of working in a PE backed business
  • Experience of one or more of the following is not a prerequisite but would be highly desirable: Working with the technology sector/SaaS
  • Financial due diligence and post-acquisition integration, particularly in the US
  • Working in a small, growing listed company