Interim Financial Controller - Shared Services

Flexible day rate - 6 months

South Yorkshire

The role

This is an exciting role where you will lead and direct the transactional and accounting finance function to ensure, through the alignment of structures, processes and accountabilities an effective control environment is established and maintained and that debtor and creditor cash flow is efficiently managed.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and direction to ensure that the transactional finance team (AP, AR and payroll) and where relevant shared service centre finance team are engaged, focused, developed and delivering their potential
• Lead and manage the financial accounts team towards timely and accurate delivery of month end accounts
• Take ownership of the financial internal control environment to ensure control weaknesses are minimised and a continuous improvement plan is delivered
• Own the cash, balance sheet and fixed costs budget / forecasting process and deliver performance of debtor and creditor performance in line with budget / forecast
• Ensure consistency of data and effective presentation of information to the senior team to generate insight
• Manage the year end external audit and tax return process for the division with the outcome being no audit or tax return adjustments required

Skills & Experience required:

• Qualified accountant with post qualified experience
• Application of accounting and tax standard
• Knowledge of VAT and PAYE
• Leading and managing a large team of varying levels from Specialist to qualified accountants
• Experience of ERP systems.