UK FC

UK Financial Controller

To �90,000 (dependent on experience) + 25% bonus + benefits

Northampton

Manufacturing sector

This international manufacturing business plays a key role in the production of our everyday products. Having experienced record-breaking growth over the past 4 years, the business continues to expand across several regions.

This highly visible role reports directly to the Group CFO and will own end-to-end finance for the UK entity in addition to some elements of Group responsibility.

Responsible for the financial management of the operating activities of the UK divisions: Sales, Manufacturing and Group Services. This is a senior role within the global finance team and will partner the CFO, Group FC, senior commercial and operational management of the UK Division.

Role includes:

• Provide business partner support to the UK Sales division, driving improved insight, ensuring effective commercial processes are in place, developing appropriate profitability, value chain analysis and cost and productivity models
• Ensure all new capex for the UK divisions is supported with a business case and cost benefit analysis and subsequently tracked against approved capex and benefits.
• Maintain and continuously improve the financial controls for the UK Divisions
• Responsible for the UK Division's external audit, liaising with auditors and providing complete and timely inputs to the Group Audit
• Define and document suitable process maps and controls for all financial operations in line with Group Policies
• Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations, including intergroup accounts, to ensure a clean balance sheet position is reported on a monthly basis
• Provide the necessary input to the Group's transfer pricing requirements including cost and activity inputs for the management fee recharges to the group.
• Responsibility for Payroll, P11ds, VAT, Duty reporting, filing and compliance for the UK legal entity
• Responsibility for compliance to UK Government changes to VAT, making tax digital, IR35
• Provide insightful commentaries to support management reporting
• Lead all UK divisions forecasts processes in keeping with Group requirements
• Establish efficient record to report processes to deliver on time and in full financial reports
• Maintain an accurate and complete cashflow forecast for the UK legal entity in line with group requirements
• Management of the UK finance team
• Key involvement in the design and evolution of financial performance reporting including leveraging existing date, new reporting, working closely with Business Insight team

Candidate profile requirements:

• Qualified accountant, ideally with experience of the manufacturing sector
• Good level of technical and operational accounting understanding
• Highly skilled in FP&A and driving business insight
• Demonstrable experience of identifying and executing enhancements through the finance reporting environment
• Impressive levels of communication skills to enable seamless stakeholder engagement including Board level
• Energy and drive to 'get stuck in' to a manufacturing environment and rapidly add genuine value
• Systems and data savvy