We are recruiting a Finance Manager to control the Group's reporting, financial status and procedures, ensuring compliance with all statutory requirements to maximize profitability and minimize risk.

Key responsibilities & accountabilities:

• Setting up, maintaining and supervising appropriate accounting systems, controls and compliance procedures to deal effectively with financial transactions relating to clients, accountholders, suppliers, banking, cash and payroll
• Prepare annual statutory accounts for all companies within the Group, ensuring filing of all returns on a timely basis. Assess the impact of future accounting standards. Coordinating audit/review of overseas subsidiaries.
• Prepare monthly management accounts & supporting schedules, along with commentary to enable faster more accurate decision making
• Monitor company business performance against plan challenging reasons for under-performance and assess adequacy of remedial action where appropriate
• Ensuring the company adheres to best accounting practice, financial and commercial management procedures to ensure successful implementation of the agreed policies
• Strong direction and leadership of the finance team in all aspects of their work to ensure high standards. Work effectively with the operational finance team and data reporting team.
• Assist in the preparation and monitoring of financial management reports including but not limited to company operating plans, budgets, forecasts and variance
• Reporting of Finance related KPIs in a clear and accessible manner for non-finance staff
• Controlling day-to-day cash movements including bank transfers and cash flow planning to facilitate business operations.

Skills & knowledge required:

• Leadership capability to deputise for the CFO and lead and inspire the finance team
• Essential to have line management experience
• Digitally literate across MS Office suite, in particular Excel
• Strong interpersonal skills and good communicator across a wide variety of stakeholders
• Ability to work under pressure and within tight deadlines
• Self-starter who can manage and structure their own time effectively
• A completer-finisher with good attention to detail Flexible attitude
• Use of initiative and proactive in approach

WHMSYORKS REF: 16897163