Financial Controller - 3 Month Role - Retail

My client, a leader in the retail & fashion industry is looking for a Financial Controller to take the reigns for three months. Ideally the successful candidate will have previous retail/fashion experience within the financial sector.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Managing the reporting process to provide accurate, timely and insightful reporting to the board and executive team on monthly/weekly basis and statutory reporting requirements
• Managing the strategic planning process by providing the objective insight and analysis, support decision making on allocation of resources and management of business risks.
• Management of treasury including foreign exchange risks, facility negotiations and reporting on covenants.
• Leading a multi-disciplinary finance team, manage and mentor the team to develop high performing finance teams.
• Managing the planning cycle including forecast, budget and strategic planning. Partner with business to support sales plan, inventory requirements planning, review of the product costs structure and cost centre budgets.
• Partnering with business development and operations team to achieve profit improvements and new market developments.
• Management of group's taxation compliance including annual tax returns
• Managing the cash flow of the business and hedge group's foreign exchange risks.
• Leading the finance team including management accounting, account receivable / payable and payroll functions.

Relevant Skills & Experience

• Fully Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA
• Previous experience in Retail
• Strong experience managing and leading a team
• A candidate's that can hit the ground running
• Must be immediately Available

If you feel like you are the perfect fit for this role then please get in contact. Please note due to the high number of applicants only successful candidates will be contacted.