Financial Controller - Maternity cover (12 months) - SYNERGY TRADING GROUP LIMITED : Job Details

Title: Financial Controller - Maternity Cover (12 months)

Location: Belmont, Sutton, SM2 6BX

Covering the current Financial Controller’s maternity leave and to become an intrinsic part of the senior management team.

A regular office presence is important with this role, however some flexibility in respect of WFH days each month can be discussed, if required. You should live within realistic commuting distance of the office.

Hours: 08:30 to 17:00 Monday to Friday

Salary Range: £60k - £75k dependent upon experience

Job Overview: You will be working in a friendly office environment, with an open-door policy, located on the high street of Belmont Village, close to the station and near Sutton and Banstead. Easy parking, both on site (first come-first served) and around the local area.

You must have solid Construction Industry Experience.

• Be available to start early/mid Sept latest.
• Can demonstrate a self-motivated and progressive nature, with proven team leading skills.
• With Group turnover growing significantly over recent years and expected to reach £20M this year, we are looking or a well-qualified FC to maintain the high standards of financial reporting and continue the progress made with robust systems and processes, to enable future growth.

The deliverables of the role will be:

Primarily - to assume control of the financial reporting of all Group companies.

o Work and communicate regularly with Directors and Senior Management to drive reporting accuracy and provide dependable and reliable Finance support to the team.

o Proactively challenge financial performance.

o Ensure tight controls over cash-flow.

o Deliver budgets and oversee year-end.

The ideal candidate will take over the day-to-day responsibilities of the Finance department and take ownership of a small team (Payroll & Accts Manager & Accounts Asst.). driving performance and motivating professional and personal development.

Person Specification:

• Min Qualifications (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with minimum 2-3 years post qualification experience.
• Construction Industry experience is essential.
• An ability to identify problems and issues from day-to-day operations and analysing costs reports.
• Demonstrate great attention to detail.
• Bring strong, effective communications skills at all levels, with internal and external contacts.
• Confidence to challenge senior management when necessary.
• Able to identify commercial opportunities and work independently, or with the team, to deliver improvements to the bottom line.
• SME experience.
• Proficient working knowledge of Sage 50.
• Knowledge of "lean processes" or process improvement, and experience in delivering.

Group Accounting experience - our flagship company VBS, are leading Mechanical & Electrical engineers, and been est. for over 30 years; the Groups other trading companies incl. Ventilation & Ducting experts, Building Services Maintenance and Building / Property Development.

Duties:

• Management and professional development of two staff.
• Develop and document first class processes to lay foundations for growth and to support the business.
• Ensure ledgers are reconciled and maintained to the highest standards.
• Preparation of Month End Management Accounts with meaningful and insightful narrative, as well as group consolidated reporting.
• Presenting key management information at bi-monthly Board meetings and providing useful insight to company directors.
• Group Accounts experience, Group reconciliations.
• Ownership of Profit & Loss and Cash Flow forecasting.
• Budget Preparation; establishing budgets, KPI’s, and reporting against budget.
• Implement and maintain cost ledger reporting fit for the commercial needs of the business.
• Accurate calculations of cross charging costs amongst the group.
• Maintain streamlined accounting systems and processes, and interfaces with other systems.
• Deliver reliable and timely reconciliation of all nominal ledger Balance Sheet accounts.
• Improve cost allocation accuracy and embed systems.
• Oversee Monthly Payrolls; Tax compliance (VAT, PAYE, P11D, and Construction Industry Scheme).
• Management of Fixed Asset Register.
• Preparing high quality year-end packs for all subsidiary companies to be issued to the external accountants, as well as being the lead liaison.

When applying please confirm your soonest available start date, thank you.