Senior Financial Controller | Hybrid, 34-Hour Week

Appleyard Lees & Co; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70.000 - 95.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

34 hour working week

Hybrid working

Annual salary review

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Holiday Purchase Scheme

Salary Exchange

Life assurance

Healthcare Cash Plan & Wellbeing App

Group Income Protection

Zusammenfassung

Appleyard Lees & Co in Manchester is seeking a Financial Controller to lead day-to-day financial operations, manage a five-person team and partner with the Finance Director to overhaul processes and improve management information.

This hands-on role covers month-end close, budgeting, VAT and payroll coordination, system improvements, and robust financial controls, with hybrid working and clear career prospects.

Qualifikationen

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification.
• Several years’ experience at Financial Controller, Finance Manager or senior Management Accountant level.
• Experience managing a small finance team and leading it through change.
• Strong management accounts and balance sheet experience.
• VAT, audit and cash flow forecasting experience.
• Experience delivering process improvement or system change in a finance function.
• Strong Excel and finance systems skills.
• Attention to detail and the ability to review other people’s work.
• Ability to investigate and resolve complex finance issues.
• Confidence dealing directly with budget holders and senior management.

Aufgaben

• Team leadership: managing and developing a finance team of five, allocating workloads, reviewing work and coaching, and acting as the escalation point for complex finance issues.
• Management reporting and commercial finance: preparing and reviewing the monthly management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations and fee earner incentive reporting. Meeting budget owners on spend, variances and forecasts, supporting the annual budget, and providing analysis and commentary to management.
• Cash, banking and treasury: managing weekly and monthly cash flow and forecasting, cash collection information, banking relationships, loans and repayments, and FX requirements and currency exposures.
• Tax, audit and payroll: preparing and submitting VAT returns, keeping tax compliance sound with external advisers, coordinating the annual audit as the auditors’ main contact, and overseeing the monthly payroll checks.
• Billing, systems and controls: supporting the team with complex billing and system issues, protecting data integrity, and maintaining and improving finance controls.
• Transformation: reviewing processes and controls to simplify, automate or strengthen them. Helping design, test and implement new systems and integrations such as bank feeds, invoice imports and Power BI. Training the team in new ways of working and documenting new processes, while keeping business-as-usual deadlines on track.

Kenntnisse

Finance leadership

Management accounting

Balance sheet

VAT & audit

Systems improvement

Excel & finance systems

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Budgeting & forecasting

Ausbildung

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification

Tools

Sage Intacct

Equinox

Excel

SharePoint

Power BI

Jobbeschreibung

Appleyard Lees & Co in Manchester is seeking a Financial Controller to lead day-to-day financial operations, manage a five-person team and partner with the Finance Director to overhaul processes and improve management information.

This hands-on role covers month-end close, budgeting, VAT and payroll coordination, system improvements, and robust financial controls, with hybrid working and clear career prospects.