Financial Controller
- Recruiter
- Crest Nicholson
- Location
- Bristol
- Salary
- £competitive
- Posted
- 07 Nov 2019
- Closes
- 14 Nov 2019
- Ref
- 231887573
- Job role
- Financial controller
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
Job Description
BUILD YOUR FUTURE WITH US Crest Nicholson South West are recruiting a fully qualified Financial Controller, based at our office in Stoke Gifford, Bristol. We're looking for a motivated and highly driven individual with the hunger to succeed in the role with a well-established, successful division. You will be supporting our highly experienced and dynamic team, reporting into the Finance Director. This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual looking for a highly engaging and challenging role having fully completed the ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification. In this role you can expect a combination of both operational, routine accounting responsibilities as well as higher level problem solving where you will make an impact by using your commercial expertise to improve, resolve, develop and adjust procedures to inform Executive level decision making and maximise profitability in line with business targets. A critical aspect of this role is for your understanding and involvement in the business as a whole to drive your day to day activity as well as thinking about the wider impact and influence you can achieve for both Crest Nicholson Group and Crest Nicholson South West regional needs. Working closely with the Sales, Commercial and Land Buying teams, your support and advice on the financial implications for cost reviews, build budgets, land deals, pre plans, sales pricing and marketing budgets will be essential. You will manage the use of working capital, producing forecasts, developing reports, improving current systems (Agresso/MIS) and applying your advice and expertise to advise and recommend a course of action for the business to achieve profit targets Leading the Finance team, you will manage the department, setting targets on service to the business, measuring department and individual performance against targets, managing on-going development of the team. What are we looking for in a successful candidate? * Must be fully qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA * Experience working for a commercially driven FTSE/PLC business would be beneficial * Housebuilding / property development / construction experience highly desirable * Highly IT literate including advanced Excel * Exceptional communication skills * Confident character who builds rapport well with team and Stakeholders * Driven and highly motivated * People Management experience or at least Supervision of others in teams * Persistent - able to push through set backs and challenges * Articulate - able to translate and communicate financial data to non-financial Stakeholders * Able to manage your own time well whilst also working to deadlines * Thrives working under the pressure with month and year end deadlines * Excellent problem solving and investigative approach As an employer of choice, we offer an extensive range of benefits including: Competitive salary, bonus, company car/car allowance, share save scheme, private pension up to 12.5% and private healthcare/cash plan options. We seek to be an ethical and progressive employer which encourages a culture of openness, creativity and continuous professional development and which rewards the effectiveness and loyalty of our employees as an equal opportunities employer. If you are applying to work at Crest Nicholson, we will ask you to supply us with sufficient personal information to help us process your application. To learn more about what personal information we will need to process and why, please refer to our recruitment privacy notice which can be found on the Crest Nicholson website under 'Recruitment Privacy Policy'. #LI-JS1
BUILD YOUR FUTURE WITH US Crest Nicholson South West are recruiting a fully qualified Financial Controller, based at our office in Stoke Gifford, Bristol. We're looking for a motivated and highly driven individual with the hunger to succeed in the role with a well-established, successful division. You will be supporting our highly experienced and dynamic team, reporting into the Finance Director. This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual looking for a highly engaging and challenging role having fully completed the ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification. In this role you can expect a combination of both operational, routine accounting responsibilities as well as higher level problem solving where you will make an impact by using your commercial expertise to improve, resolve, develop and adjust procedures to inform Executive level decision making and maximise profitability in line with business targets. A critical aspect of this role is for your understanding and involvement in the business as a whole to drive your day to day activity as well as thinking about the wider impact and influence you can achieve for both Crest Nicholson Group and Crest Nicholson South West regional needs. Working closely with the Sales, Commercial and Land Buying teams, your support and advice on the financial implications for cost reviews, build budgets, land deals, pre plans, sales pricing and marketing budgets will be essential. You will manage the use of working capital, producing forecasts, developing reports, improving current systems (Agresso/MIS) and applying your advice and expertise to advise and recommend a course of action for the business to achieve profit targets Leading the Finance team, you will manage the department, setting targets on service to the business, measuring department and individual performance against targets, managing on-going development of the team. What are we looking for in a successful candidate? * Must be fully qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA * Experience working for a commercially driven FTSE/PLC business would be beneficial * Housebuilding / property development / construction experience highly desirable * Highly IT literate including advanced Excel * Exceptional communication skills * Confident character who builds rapport well with team and Stakeholders * Driven and highly motivated * People Management experience or at least Supervision of others in teams * Persistent - able to push through set backs and challenges * Articulate - able to translate and communicate financial data to non-financial Stakeholders * Able to manage your own time well whilst also working to deadlines * Thrives working under the pressure with month and year end deadlines * Excellent problem solving and investigative approach As an employer of choice, we offer an extensive range of benefits including: Competitive salary, bonus, company car/car allowance, share save scheme, private pension up to 12.5% and private healthcare/cash plan options. We seek to be an ethical and progressive employer which encourages a culture of openness, creativity and continuous professional development and which rewards the effectiveness and loyalty of our employees as an equal opportunities employer. If you are applying to work at Crest Nicholson, we will ask you to supply us with sufficient personal information to help us process your application. To learn more about what personal information we will need to process and why, please refer to our recruitment privacy notice which can be found on the Crest Nicholson website under 'Recruitment Privacy Policy'. #LI-JS1