Finance Manager / Financial Controller

WH Finance Ltd; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

WH Finance Ltd, a specialist SME, is seeking a bright Finance Manager / Financial Controller to make a real difference in a rapidly growing business with clear career progression.

Key duties include creating and overseeing UK, USA and South Africa budgets; preparing quarterly management accounts; cashflow management; VAT returns; debtor and creditor management; and proactive financial analysis to improve efficiency.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with relevant experience in fast-paced SME environments.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and meet deadlines.
• Strong organisational skills and goal orientation.

Responsibilities

• Create and oversee budgets for UK, USA and South Africa businesses.
• Prepare quarterly management accounts.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Part qualified

QBE

Tools

MS Office

Sage Accounts

Sage Payroll

Job description

My client is a specialist niche manufacturing business and they are now looking to recruit a bright and ambitious Finance Manager / Financial Controller who is looking to make a real difference within a rapidly growing business with plenty of space for career progression.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create and oversee company budgets for the UK, USA and South Africa businesses
• Preparation of quarterly management accounts
• Reconciliation of budgets against forecasts
• Management of warehouse & customer services to ISO 9001:2015
• Proactive in improving business systems and operating procedures
• Stock Control
• Process Sales Orders
• Process Purchase orders and Internal Works Orders
• Approve and send out Customer invoices
• Debtor management and collection
• Creditor reconciliation and Month End Payments
• Bank reconciliation
• Preparation of VAT returns
• Regularly review project spends and raise any issues or concerns with team to ensure any potential issues are addressed
• Proactively develop financial analysis to help improve the efficiency of the business as a whole

Skills & Experience:

• A qualified accountant, part qualified or QBE with relevant experience
• Used to working in a fast paced SME environment with a minimum of supervision to agreed deadlines
• Highly methodical and organised candidate with a strong character, able to set and meet goals
• Excellent working knowledge of using the MS Office Package (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook), Sage Accounts and Sage Payroll
• Ability to build and maintain excellent rapport face to face and over the phone

This is a great opportunity if you have previous experience gained in an SME business and you are looking to become FD in the future.