Financial Controller

Next; Leicester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Financial Controller to lead a large finance team in a fast-paced environment. This role involves overseeing financial operations across numerous stores and websites, managing significant cash flow, and ensuring compliance and risk management. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with proven leadership skills and a strategic mindset, capable of driving efficiency and innovation within the finance team. If you thrive in a challenging role and possess exceptional interpersonal skills, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in a leading retail organization.

Benefits

Bonus

Company Car

Management Share Options

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with extensive experience in finance leadership.
• Strong control skills and knowledge of multichannel retail processes.

Responsibilities

• Oversee financial operations and cash flow for the business and partners.
• Manage customer payment options and ensure data integrity across systems.

Skills

Financial Accounting

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Project Management

Attention to Detail

Education

Relevant Finance Qualification

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Financial Controller

Location: Leicestershire

Salary: Six figure salary plus bonus, car & management share options

NEXT has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated individual to join the Finance team, leading key finance operations.

If you're a strategic thinker with superior interpersonal skills and someone who thrives in a commercial fast paced, challenging and demanding environment then we'd love to meet you.

About the Role:

Leading a team of 34+, you will be overseeing all aspects of financial operations and transactional management and associated cash flow for the NEXT business and Total Platform partners across 600+ stores and 90+ websites globally, as well as providing expert advice and managing business risk and compliance in these areas.

You'll be managing customer payment options and receivables c£5bn, gift cards, and retail stock ensuring data integrity and accuracy across all systems.

In addition, you will be responsible for the associated business projects, new payment opportunities, and external relationships and will be a key interface to the wider business at all levels.

You'll need to be a qualified accountant with strong control skills as you'll be managing and overseeing the financial accounting, reporting, associated costs, revenues, processes, and financial controls in the area, as well as providing decision support, analysis, and performance metrics.

A big part of the role will require strong organization and leadership skills as you will be responsible for managing teams and developing individuals to deliver the highest standards of service required in the business, as well as driving efficiency, change, and innovation.

You'll have lots of opportunity to demonstrate your exceptional interpersonal skills as you'll be working with a broad spectrum of people internally and also be managing strategic 3rd party relationships and contracts.

What we are looking for:

An experienced finance leader and business partner with a relevant finance qualification and extensive experience within a similar role, ideally with knowledge of multichannel retail business processes.

You'll have proven experience of successfully leading, motivating, and developing large teams and have a strong bias for action, including the ability to juggle multiple priorities and projects and work at pace to deliver results.

In addition to being a strong leader, you'll also have a good commercial aptitude, be highly numerate with superior attention to detail. You'll also need to think strategically and have proven analytical and problem-solving abilities and decision-making skills.

As a key driver of change, you'll provide support for business initiatives and make things happen and be able to demonstrate an ability to manage projects and meet deadlines.

You'll possess strong control skills including detailed knowledge of internal controls and business and operational risks and have a sound understanding of systems processes.

Superior interpersonal and presentation skills are also required, and you will be confident in leading discussions and negotiating and influencing across all levels of the business and externally.