Financial Controller

The Role will be responsible to the Chief Executive and the individual will immediately become a member of the management team which comprises the Chief Executive, Sales Director and Operations Director. The role comes with one direct report - an Accounts Assistant to assist in delivering the finances, an essential part of the business.

Client Details

A family-owned business, based in Coventry, who have historically shown a stable, loyal and committed work-force who work in a friendly and mutually co-operative open-office environment. This role will oversee all aspects of finance for the business and have a key input in decision making and driving the business forwards.

Description

The Financial Controller will be responsible for:

• Preparation of Monthly management accounts
• VAT
• Management of purchase and sales ledger functions
• Cash management
• Preparation of monthly forward cash-flows

Overseeing all aspects of finance including:

• Processing customer invoices

• Daily cash allocation

• Maintenance of cashbooks and daily bank reconciliations

• Purchase invoice processing in Sage 50 Accounts Professional

• Processing of BACS payments and sending out remittances to suppliers

• Supplier statement reconciliations

• Dealing with supplier queries

• Processing bank statements

• Processing of fuel receipts

• Issuing customer statements

• Credit control

• Dealing with customer invoice queries

• Compilation of engineers overtime for payroll from time sheets

• Balance sheet and intercompany reconciliations

• Payroll

Profile

The successful Financial Controller will be:

• Be a qualified and experienced management accountant. The Company would also look at individuals who can demonstrate they are Qualified by Experience.
• Must be an excellent communicator - especially over the telephone
• Will have a friendly Can-do attitude and make all stakeholders feel comfortable that their issue will be sorted
• Will be very customer-focused and will keep his/her promises
• Have strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel and Outlook) plus practical Sage experience or near-equivalent
• Working in a small team

Job Offer

Please enquire.