Heading up a new post-acquisition team to help deep dive and integrate. Ideally candidates will have strong post-acquisition integration experience with a prior background in finance. Strong project management skills are required and although PE experience is not essential would be desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead integration meetings is important for guiding decision-making and ensuring that any potential effects on finances and other essential operations are identified, understood, and accepted before a decision is authorised
• Attendance at acquisition sites after completion to meet the team and examine the controls and processes for finances
• A examination of all financial controls, processes, and team members inside the purchased business will be necessary to ensure that company can gain oversight and, where appropriate, control of the newly acquired entity
• To enable a seamless handover process, cooperate and establish relationships with the existing management structure and acquired financial team
• Participation in the banking transition from the present banking mandates to company's mandate and making sure company has complete management and monitoring of all acquired bank accounts
• The controls and procedures in place at recently acquired sites should be documented and challenged to see if they are adequate
• Review and question the output of the monthly management accounts, then compare it to the acquisition budget
• Ensure an easy transition of the newly acquired entity's accounting practises into parent accounting system and the group reporting after integration
• Integrate effectively the performance and budgets of acquired firms into the Group's monthly management accounts package, making sure the accounting system of the acquired company is configured to permit reporting in accordance with the company chart of accounts
• Create a purchase checklist that can be applied to all upcoming purchases
• As needed, offer advice and assistance to the other members of the acquisitions team
• Cooperate with the company finance team members to ensure a seamless transition of operations to the financial controller after integration.

Non negotiables:

• Qualified (acca, aca, cima or equivalent)
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Able to plan and prioritise
• Excellent IT skills - experience of Microsoft suite of products, word, excel etc
• Prior experience of acquisitions integration
• Hands on experience of acquisition integration
• Able to communicate at all levels

Benefits:

• Holiday entitlement starting from 30 days (incl bank holidays) increasing with each year of service to a max of 35 days
• WFH 2/3 days a week
• Employee assistance programme including access to a virtual gp 24/7 and internal mental health first aiders
• Regular award and recognition prizes to be won, including trips abroad

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