Job description
Financial Controller | Stockport (3 days in office) | £70,000 - £80,000 | High growth SME
Axon Moore have exclusively partnered with a rapidly growing SME who are about to embark of an exciting journey as they double in size over the next 12-24 months. This is a newly created, number 1 role reporting into the Managing Director.
The role itself is very dynamic and broad in nature, truly suiting a candidate who is keen to build and develop a Finance Team within a customer focused business, with the want and drive to become its Finance Director in the future.
Responsibilities include, but aren't limited to:
Axon Moore have exclusively partnered with a rapidly growing SME who are about to embark of an exciting journey as they double in size over the next 12-24 months. This is a newly created, number 1 role reporting into the Managing Director.
The role itself is very dynamic and broad in nature, truly suiting a candidate who is keen to build and develop a Finance Team within a customer focused business, with the want and drive to become its Finance Director in the future.
Responsibilities include, but aren't limited to:
- Ensure that the Finance department produces timely, accurate management accounts and financial reports to enable financial performance to be reliably reported to Board / Senior Mgt
- Prepare Board / Senior Mgt Meeting slides to present month end financials, including analysis and complimentary narrative
- Prepare and provide trend analysis, including the preparation of the Company’s monthly KPI Scorecard, across both qualitative and quantitative measures.
- Own and manage the budgeting and reforecasting process, working closely with budget holders to build budgets, challenging them appropriately throughout
- Prepare and maintain both short term 13 weekly and more medium term monthly 6 month rolling cashflow forecasts for the Company
- Ensure the Company meets its statutory, fiscal and auditing requirements
- Work closely with the Senior Mgt team to plan the build and structure of the Finance Team, following any agreed recruitment process at all times
- Prior experience working for a fast paced SME
- Qualified accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA)
- An ability to communicate with all areas of the business, with the instinct to know when tactfulness and sometimes pragmatism are called for
- Ambitious and driven
- Experience in managing and delivering change to structure and meet financial reporting
