Financial Controller

This role will maximise Operating Income and grow margins through resource efficiencies, strategic cost projects and profitability from both price and cost reductions. The role has a major focus on business partnering and understanding the business to accelerate high margin and high growth business opportunities.

Client Details

The client is a global leader in their field.

Description

• Commercial Business Partnering: strategically review the Opportunities in Sales Force with the Operations departmental growth plans to generate commercial focus.
• Drive Incremental Margins: Review and challenge lower quartile margins to increase price and/or strategically lower delivery costs.
• Enhance Operational Analytics: Produce new and enhanced meaningful monthly management reporting including forecasting for senior management review.
• Department Resource Optimisation: Review KPI's and resource metrics regularly with Operations, to drive Organisational efficiency.
• Disciplined Cost Centre Reporting: Establish a routine discipline and regular cadence with cost centre owners, then initiate joint action plans to improve.
• Execute Efficiency Projects: run large scale, deep lean projects to reduce the usage of key spend areas.
• Site Forecast Evolution: Deliver the weekly, monthly, quarterly forecast submissions.
• Forecast analytics: Reconciling and explaining slippage in backlogs on a routine basis to identify trends and patterns.
• Monthly Financial Close: Close the month-end, including accruals, revenue reviews and variance analysis with commentary for management reporting.
• Annual Plan Production: Deliver the annual plan submission.

Profile

• A qualified Accountant - ACCA/ICAS/ICAEW/CIMA
• Experience in a similar position in an international environment (multinational preferably)
• Strong analytical and good communication skills

• Accustomed to communicating and reporting to senior management

• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint presentation skills
• Strong FP&A/commercial finance exposure and P&L ownership

• Project finance lead experience

• Supervisory and/or people management experience advantageous

• Experience of SAP or other ERP systems and Group Reporting packages

• Knowledge and experience of Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence software packages

• Power BI knowledge would be appreciated

Job Offer

On offer to the successful candidate is a fast tracked route to FD and an eccellent salary and benefits package.