Details:
- Salary: £75,000 - 100,000 - Annum
- Location: Chester
- Date: 1 month ago
Description:
Our client is a key manufacturing division of a PE backed, international organisation supplying blue chip brands throughout the UK. With ambitious plans for further growth organically and via acquisition, the business seeks to build upon its market leading position and deliver significant shareholder value.
As part of their growth plans they wish to appoint a high calibre Financial Controller to drive profitable growth and improve operational effectiveness throughout the business. Whilst the FC will have full responsibility for managing the finance and accounting function, a key aspect of the role lies in driving commercial and operational improvement across the manufacturing operations and into the P&L.
Reporting directly to the Group Financial Controller, key areas of responsibility will include:
Support, assist, and where necessary deputise for Operations Director
Manage and review monthly management accounts and ensure timely circulation of key performance indicators and variances against budget and forecasts, optimising information content
Control managed working capital and maximise cash generation
Ensure that proper and adequate financial and business processes are in place to support the financial control of the business
Work with department heads to provide measurement and monitoring of each department’s performance, improvement initiatives by analysing daily/weekly data to ensure optimal shop floor performance, ensure costs do not exceed plan, and need to manage and protect margin targets
Monitor and control of costs, ensuring costing system accuracy to manage and protect margin targets
Recommend and drive courses of action which ensure that profit opportunities are maximised
Identify areas of improvements for accounting systems to maximise efficiency and increase profit
Drive profit improvement and efficiency analysis and initiatives
Managing cash and overseeing cash collection
Accurate Forecasting P&L and cash (weekly / monthly /quarterly / annually)
Overseeing the budgeting and/or financial projections for the division (including cap-ex budgets)
Being the finance lead on any ERP/business system changes for the division
Ensure utilisation and review within ERP generated costing sheets, contract reviews
Lead the support of annual audit of the division ensuring year end accounts are prepared accurately and in line with current accounting standards
The successful candidate will be a qualified accountant with several years' post qualification experience in a manufacturing organisation. They will be a self-starter with outstanding leadership abilities and a passion to improve performance/add value. ERP change management experience would be highly advantageous