Financial Controller

Thubelisha; Basildon; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading plumbing and heating firm in the UK seeks a Financial Controller. The role focuses on providing analytical support and business partnering to drive commercial decisions. Candidates should ideally have a CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualification or be part-qualified and possess strong Excel skills. This position offers a hybrid working environment, allowing flexibility to work from home.

Benefits

Bonus

Life assurance

Flexible working options

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in business partnering is essential.
• CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualification preferred but part-qualified acceptable.
• Ability to work under initiative managing multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support and analysis to business partners.
• Aid in annual planning cycles including forecasts and budgets.
• Review key reporting to improve key performance indicators.

Skills

Business partnering

Strong experience in Excel

SQL knowledge

Ability to follow departmental procedures

Organizational skills

Education

CIMA/ACCA/ACA Qualification

Job description

Overview

#BelongWithUs

Come and join us as a customer focused and results driven Financial Controller and be part of a hugely successful and friendly team.

The Role

As a Financial Controller, youll provide excellent analytical and reporting information to deliver the best commercial decisions. The Finance BP will take ownership of areas such as business partnering, budget forecasting (3 times a year), reporting and presenting to the wider business, as well as working closely with the FP&A reporting and branch operation teams.

This is a hugley significant role that would either suit a fully-qualified Business Partner, or a part-qualified Finance Analyst who has been exposed to business partnering before and is ready to take the step up.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing Business Partnering and key financial support to colleagues.
• Adding value by supporting other Business Partners and Finance Analysts with producing relevant reports and information to make business choices.
• Presenting the key themes facing the business at management meetings.
• Delivering annual planning cycles (forecasts, budgets, & 5-year plans).
• Continually review key reporting to ensure the business remains focused on improving KPI metrics to improve profitability

This is a hybrid-based opportunity with true flexibility to work from home 3 days a week, with 2 days in our newly refurbished offices in Crick, Northamptonshire.

You

Youll live and breathe our Customer First ethos, with an innovative and agile approach to problem-solving. Youll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider Finance team and youll thrive on delivering excellent support to the wider team.

Whilst our preference is for someone to be fully qualified in either ACA / ACCA / CIMA, we will also consider more junior applicants who are currently part-qualified and studying with a few exams left to complete.

Skills And Competencies

• Strong demonstrable experience in business partnering.
• CIMA/ACCA/ACA Qualification would be beneficial but we would also consider part-qualified applicants.
• Ability to accurately follow departmental procedures.
• Strong experience in Excel is a must with evidence of large data slabs and manipulation (Google Sheets will also be considered).
• Well organised, with the ability to work under your own initiative managing multiple projects at once.
• SQL knowledge (or the ability to learn SQL) is also beneficial.
• Financial experience of working within Retail or Manufacturing industries is beneficial

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Finance Analyst, Finance BP, Finance Business Partner, Finance Partner, Financial Accountant, Finance Analyst, CIMA Qualified, ACCA Qualified, ACA Qualified, FMCG, eCommerce, Online, Digital, Retail, Manufacturing, Building Products, Plumbing & Heating, Construction.

Us

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! Were proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and were super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits Package And Cultural Environment

• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!

#BelongWithUs

Were passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We dont want you to fit our culture, we want you to enrich it.

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.

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