Kenny Recruit are looking for a qualified Financial Controller who has experience of working with stock. You will be responsible for running the day-to-day finance function, you will report into the Finance Director and have a team reporting into you. As the Financial Controller, you will run the month closing, ideally within a short time frame, you will be responsible for the audit, you will business partner with Heads of Departments and having a commercial edge will help as you will be working with stock.
Pay: £75,000 - £85,000 per annum dependent on experience) + benefits
Location: Central London (5 days in the office to begin with, moving to 3 after probation)
Working hours: 9:00am- 6:00pm
Key Responsibilities:
*Responsible for ensuring all reporting deadlines for the business are met.
*Overseeing all financial control activities - month-end close process, preparation and review of management accounts, comprehensive balance sheet substantiation, VAT and other taxation reporting and submission.
*Present month end financials to Senior-Leadership team and own the actions log.
*Invoicing, paying down and reconciling intercompany positions monthly.
*Ensure the timely delivery of KPIs for financial covenant reporting purposes.
*Build effective working relationships with cross functional business partners to drive process improvements and delivering key business metrics and insight to enable informed decision making.
*Design and implement financial process changes to drive efficiency by leveraging latest technologies.
*Continuous improvement of analytical processes to facilitate commercial insights.
*Taking full responsibility for audit process from planning through to completion and creation of financial statements. Capturing and enacting learnings from prior audits.
*Work with Finance team to create own development plans.
*Partnering operations team to monitor and manage KPI on inventory and providing reporting on a timely basis to enable meaningful change.
*Responsible for landed cost and inventory valuation including all provisions and judgements.
*Responsible for intercompany invoicing and intercompany loans and interest.
*Partnering with the Tax Accountant to meet and forecast deadlines and deliverables.
*Managing the department calendar to ensure no deadlines missed.
*Supporting budget process with models and workings to supplement business needs to additional data and insights.
*Other ad hoc duties
Requirements:
*Fully qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
*Stock experience.
*Exceptional system skills.
*Advanced MS Office skills, particularly Excel.
*Ability to meet demanding deadlines, often with competing priorities, and adapts to business needs.
*Ability to absorb complex operational information and produce accurate, intelligent analysis.
*Enjoys challenge and change.
*Excellent time management/organisational and multi-tasking skills.
*Strong communication skills.
*Flexible and adaptable in approach.
Next Steps…
Shortlisted candidates will obviously be contacted for this specific role and if you haven’t heard from us within a week, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We’d love to give feedback to every applicant but due to the sheer volume of applications we receive, unfortunately this just isn’t possible. We will keep your CV on file to contact you with regards to future roles and any other advice to help you. Alternatively, feel free to contact us for a chat.