Divisional Head of Finance
West Yorkshire, Leeds
Divisional Head of Finance
West Yorkshire, Leeds
The details
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Start your job searchReporting to the Director of Finance, the Divisional Financial Controller will play a key part in the senior leadership team, offering financial leadership and guidance to this autonomous division.
Key responsibilities include:
Leadership
- Key member of the senior leadership team with autonomy to lead the UK finance function on a day to day basis.
- Leading and developing a growing team to be based in Leeds and in asset locations.
Financial Accounting and Reporting
- Oversight and governance over business reporting ensuring strong financial controls over expenditure, reporting, hedging, budgeting and cash management
- Working with Group finance to ensure alignment with group objectives and group reporting
- Developing and producing insightful management reporting
- Improving financial process and control
- Ensuring adherence to IFRS accounting standards and statutory reporting requirements
- Managing the annual external audit
- Overseeing the execution of tax strategy at UK level and tax compliance activities at asset-level
- Enhancement of existing finance processes, IT systems and procedures to ensure efficient integration of acquisitions and implementation of best practice are achieved.
- Managing cash and bank relationships and monitoring adherence to loan requirements.
Financial Planning and Analysis
- Development of the UK group's Financial Planning & Analysis function, in order to provide robust, quality management and performance information to the business and influence strategic decision making
- Provide ad-hoc analysis to Management to inform decision making
- Lead the UK annual business planning and within year forecasting processes
Other
- Financial, process and systems integration of acquisitions
- Leading finance system strategy and implementation
- Assisting with financing and acquisition activities as required.
- Understanding and reporting financial and business risk
The Successful Applicant
The ideal candidate will be ACA qualified, preferably with a Big 4 firm background and with a demonstrable track record in developing robust financial controls and effective leadership from within a complex high growth environment.
Experience:
- Blue chip, mid-sized group or high growth entity experience.
- Strong technical knowledge of accounting standards and tax.
- Trusted senior team member of finance leadership team.
- Evidence of experience in special projects. E.g. IT systems implementation and integrations.
- Knowledge of systems, SAP preferred.
- Strong leadership skills and able to manage at a distance.
- Sense of personal ownership, commitment and accountability.
- The ability to provide clear direction and inspire confidence with a view to delivering results and quick action.
- Team-oriented; excellent interpersonal skills and able to develop collaborative relationships at all levels in the organisation.
- Ability to balance delegation with being "hands on" and close to the business.
- Track record of building strong, adaptable, proactive teams.
- A history of developing talent and creating environments where employees develop their capacity to meet challenges in an increasing complex business context.
- A strong mentor, who is able to provide direction and coaching to more junior team members.
Personal Characteristics
- Good knowledge of finance team department operations.
- Diligent approach to process and controls.
- Able to self-direct and prioritise activities in the context of the business.
- Positive outlook with a simple, open communication style.
- Instinct to continuously improve and drive change
- Able to act as a strong internal diplomat and create effective relationships at Divisional and Corporate level.
- A self-motivated individual thriving in a dynamic work environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
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