Interim Financial Control Manager
- Recruiter
- Michael Page
- Location
- Somerset, Bath
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 14 Jan 2021
- Closes
- 21 Jan 2021
- Ref
- JN -102020-1238139
- Contact
- Ryan Hirons
- Job role
- Financial accountant
- Sector
- Retail and FMCG
- Contract type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full time
- Experience level
- Qualified accountant
This is an great opportunity for a qualified accountant with excellent technical skills to join a household brand name in the South West.
Client Details
My client are a major FMCG business that have an outstanding market reputation.
Description
The main responsibilities within this role are:
- Ensure compliance of financial statements with Group rules for management accounts and local rules for Statutory accounts
- Coordinate with various departments to deliver an accurate and timely monthly closing process, including validation of all closing options.
- Provide all accounting information necessary for local regulations (I.e. tax and legal requirements)
- Act as accounting partner for internal business units and support them in the forecasting process and financial reporting
- Support and develop two more junior accountants
- Support the Head of Financial Controlling in creating harmonised processes and controls across all departments
- Seek opportunities to review processes and drive continuous improvement; be a champion of efficiency and compliance.
- Lead statutory reporting for the UK and Ireland legal entities and work closely with external auditors to provide information in a timely fashion.
- Validate the financial processes implemented in the General Accounting team, review accounts delivered to ensure compliance, and support the team as needed.
- Follow up KPIs to monitor and improve the efficiency of the closing process and other GL activities
- Planning, animation and monitoring of FC activities: pre-closing, closing, reporting, audit
- Balance sheet risks & opportunity identification
- Review and validation of monthly reporting (P&L, BS and cashflow) and bi-annual consolidation packages
- Prepare the financial statements for local / legal requirements
- Validate Corporation Tax Returns Work in conjunction with Tax Manager
- Integrity checks of interfaces to accounting systems, follow up of resolution
- Manage relationship with internal and external auditors
- Perform local GAAP watch and ensure application of Group accounting principles
- Act as lead for finance projects locally or within the regional context
Profile
The successful candidate for this position will have:
- Strong Accounting understanding and a recognised full accountancy qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
- Good Information Systems knowledge (SAP & BI Tool)
- Strong attention to detail and an analytical mindset
- Ability to manage challenging conversations, and influencing behaviours on key stakeholders
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong organisation skills and resilience, with the ability to manage complexity
- Analytical abilities (detail oriented/problem solving)
Job Offer
A highly competitive salary and package is on offer for the successful candidate. This is also a potential temp to perm opportunity if things go well.
Please note this is a fixed term contract and a salaried role, so no day rate is available.
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