Financial Controller

The Permanent Division of Robert Half is currently recruiting for a Financial Controller on behalf of a Specialist Sales Business with offices in Hatfield

Role

As Financial Controller you will provide financial management and support to the business covering compliance, budgeting and forecasting and quarterly reporting across the business and into stakeholders. Day to day duties will consist of:

• Line manage and development of a team of three
• Supplier payment authorisation and payment management
• Train and develop the team
• Improve processes and systems to align with best practice and create efficiencies
• Weekly review and presentation of cashflow position and make recommendations
• Final review of the monthly management accounts and support with improving commentary on variance analysis
• Final review of monthly variance analysis with presentation to the SLT

• Own the budget and reforecast process, reporting to the SLT and department heads
• Complete monthly review of foreign currency requirements
• Lead on projects to introduce new suppliers or new software
• A member of the pricing team; bringing the relevant financial data to the meetings to support the pricing decisions and cost assumptions built into the cost provisions

• Vat and Audit management

• Lead contact with external banking partner, including payment authorisation and credit card management

• Maintenance and admin for Microsoft Business Central accounts software
• Awareness and introduction of AI opportunities within the system and or other processes

• Finance business partner all other internal departments to provide the financial and business data they need in order to make decisions in their areas

Your Profile

You will be a Qualified Accountant with previous team management experience ideally with exposure to industries that have ABTA and ABTOL related compliance policies. In addition you will have strong attention to detail and be highly interpersonal with the ability to work cross functionally across finance and on finance and with senior leadership teams.

Salary and Benefits

Role of Financial Controller is based 5 days from the office near Hatfield and paying a salary of up to £75K + Benefits

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