Finance Controller role to support the Finance Director as they are swamped at the moment and need support from you.

Ideal experience:

• FS background
• Financial controller with possibly some FP&A/Finance business experience at times in the career
• Has done a lot of positioning of financial results and stakeholder management - need to be upward managing FD and the deliveries for the finance team rather than mico managing the team
• Understands RCSA/Sox type controls and need for transparency
• Run an audit process - need an audit file of reconciliations ready with key control sign offs
• Familiar with IAS accounting or demonstrable experience of picking things up very quickly
• Engaged with the need to drive performance
• Independent and confident to make decisions - make it happen

Responsibilities

• Month end close.
• Need to develop the reports to be more forward looking.
• Covenant monitoring for funders and they will need to build that process.
• Refine the cash forecast process and be responsible for a liquidity risk appetite that needs setting
• Set up the market risk appetite.
• Audit year end close.
• Bank relationship management.
• Accounting papers for audit committee prepared and process for AC set up
• Cost centre management - reporting and tracking into the budget.
• Expense management - policy update, tracking, approval.
• Set up a latest view process with the FP&A manager
• Management of 4 - 5 people

Stakeholders:

• CFO
• Senior management team
• Ops director
• External Audit