Financial Controller

Sewell Wallis Ltd; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent engineering and industrial business in Barnsley is seeking a Financial Controller to manage a team and collaborate with senior leadership on forecasts and budgets. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills and hands-on expertise in internal controls and compliance. This role offers a competitive salary of up to £80,000 along with bonuses and various benefits, including health insurance and a matched pension scheme.

Benefits

Competitive bonus structure

Life Assurance

Health Insurance

8% matched pension

Internal reward and voucher scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Financial Controller for a minimum of 2 years.
• Proactive and hands-on approach to process improvement.
• Confident communicator who can work well with non-finance colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the workload of, and managing a team of 6.
• Reviewing management information and presenting to the senior leadership team.
• Leading on audit and year-end reporting.
• Ownership on cash flow, forecasting, and budgeting.

Skills

Financial reporting

Team management

Process improvement

Communication skills

Technical accounting knowledge

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Tools

Modeling software

Job description

Sewell Wallis are working exclusively with an engineering and industrial business in Barnsley who are looking to secure a new Financial Controller. This business have had outstanding growth in the last couple of years due to new contracts, and are currently sitting at around 200million revenue.

As part of this role, you'll be managing a small team, whilst working closely with senior leadership team to deliver forecasts and budgets for various projects undertaken under that business unit. You'll need to be a strong communicator who enjoys working across departments, business partnering, as well as being technically sound and hands on when it comes to internal controls and compliance.

What will you be doing?

• Overseeing the workload of, and managing a team of 6.
• Reviewing management information and presenting to the senior leadership team, giving insights and recommendations.
• Leading on audit and year-end reporting.
• Ownership on cash flow, forecasting and budgeting and liaising with various departments.
• Implementing and maintaining internal controls.
• Process improvement and streamlining.

What skills are we looking for?

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• Proven experience working at a Financial Controller level for a minimum of 2 years.
• Proactive and hands on approach to process improvement.
• Confident communicator who can work well with non-finance colleagues.
• Technical, with good understanding of modeling software (not essential).

What's on offer?

• Salary of up to 80,000.
• Competitive bonus structure.
• Life Assurance.
• Health Insurance.
• 8% matched pension.
• Internal reward and voucher scheme.

Send us your CV below, or contact Inci Evcil for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.