Financial Controller

- Reporting in to the MD of the business, this is an incredible opportunity for an experience financial professional to join a growing business and facilitate the continued growth of the organisation

- Ownership of the finance function from an operational & strategic perspective

Client Details

My client are a fast-growing, dynamic branded food company with presence across grocery multiples and the Independent sectors.

This is truly an exciting time to be joining the business. You will rapidly be involved in a number of activities including an SAP rollout and process changes. This is an incredible opportunity for an individual with a good finance background from a similar industry.

We are currently looking for a financial controller to facilitate both the strategic and operational goals of the finance function.

Description

This Financial Controller will have responsibilities for the following, as well as ad-hoc duties when required:

Overall management of Accounts Payable and Receivable functions.

Management of daily and annual Banking process. Experience of handling an Asset Base Lending model will be ideal.

Costing:

- Take ownership of and refine the product costing models working with Operations.

- Work with the Sales director on pricing

Budgeting and Management accounts:

- Build the annual budget by pulling together departmental budgets-sales/marketing/ Ops/HR etc.

- Produce monthly management accounts showing performance against budget and variance.

- Produce MIS showing account and product level profitability.

Cost reduction programme:

- Work with the Head of Ops to drive costs down.

- Renegotiate purchase contracts to get better costs.

Roll out SAP

Audit-Dealing with auditors on all Financial Statements.

Filing of returns with Companies House.

Liaising with Head Office (Delhi) on statutory reporting to parent company.

Management of Overall Payroll-Benefits, Deductions, Expenses etc.

Profile

Required:

• Qualified Accountant - (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
  
• Experience within the FMCG/consumer goods industry
• Familiar with import/export related activities
• A strong level of technical knowledge, coupled with commercial acumen
• Experience managing a team
• Able to work in Harrow & travel occasionally to Suffolk

• Preferred:
• Experience rolling out SAP advantageous, experience using SAP will also be helpful
• Experience working with an asset based lending model

Job Offer

The successful Financial Controller will receive a competitive salary and package commensurate with experience. You will be joining a growing organisation in a developing position. Please do get in touch to discuss further.