Finance Director - CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified (EMEA FP&A) - up to £10

Finance Director - CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified (EMEA FP&A)

Our client who is a global leader in mission-critical communications products, services and solutions - seeks an experienced Finance Director/Manager to manage a dispersed international accountancy team, working on large and complex programmes (EMEA).

Responsibilities

• Leading the EMEA Planning and Reporting team (approx. 10 team members)
• Full ownership of the EMEA P&L and Balance Sheet
• Conducting sales, margin, capital, budgets plans & forecasts, including month end consolidations
• Preparing regular management reports many of which will be ad-hoc at the request of the senior management team
• Presenting to the senior leadership team and supporting them with major decision making processes
• Supporting the business functions in day-to- day financial analysis and driving sound decision making
• Closing collaboration with the sales support teams
• Driving process improvements and common accounting practices
• Collaborating with other regional planning team to drive best practices
• Working towards process improvements and common accounting practices, ensuring collaboration with regional planning teams to drive best practice

Skills & Qualifications

• CIMA, ACCA OR ACA qualified with 5+ years post qualified experience
• Very experienced in Financial Planning and Reporting
• Experience within the technology or telecoms industry is a must
• Understands technical accounting implications such as first in first out accounting, and revenue recognition etc.
• Proven ability to lead a team (local and remote)
• Strong communication skills with an ability to work with minimum supervision
• Self-motivated and a strong team player
• Advanced user of excel with a proven ability to handle large data sets