Financial Controller

Finance Controller

Four days in the office

Reports to the Finance Director:

Job Purpose:

Provide support to the Finance Director in reporting on the performance and in shaping the profit and cashflow forecasts for the region. Manage day to day finance operations. Ensure accuracy of all financial reporting within the region. Be the first point of contact for finance queries from departments across the region and from the Group function.

Scope:

The role of the regional finance department is to provide accurate reporting on Company performance and prepare robust profit and cashflow forecasts which are key to shaping the Group strategy and facilitate effective decision-making along with the other regions.

This encompasses collaboration with and challenge to other Company departments to ensure that underlying figures are monitored and to allow timely and realistic project appraisals.

Compliance with statutory deadlines (tax, audit) etc also forms a key part of the operation of the department.

Responsible for Staff: Finance Manager & Financial Accountant

Key Duties:

• Ownership of all aspects of financial reporting including delivering month end. Review of journals, reconciliations and monthly management accounts with variance analysis.
• Review and challenge the regional financial information to ensure strong accuracy and taking full ownership of reporting to Group
• Understanding the Group requirements, constraints and challenges to drive regional performance for overall Group delivery
• Managing the region’s joint venture projects, ensuring adherence to contractual and funding requirements and reporting to joint venture partners.
• Updating project appraisals on a monthly basis.
• Prepare and challenge the monthly profit forecast, including preparation of monthly project appraisals.
• Ownership of the weekly/ monthly cashflow forecast.
• Oversight of weekly payment runs and monitoring against cashflow.
• Review of the monthly payroll data and liaising with the payroll advisors.
• Ownership of the finance section of the monthly board pack.
• Ownership of the annual budget pack.
• Develop, maintain, review and challenge the controls and processes to maintain a strong control environment and risk management approach.
• Ensuring strong interaction and communication across regional finance teams for consistency in controls and processes
• Ownership of all statutory deadlines including the annual audit, corporation tax, VAT etc.
• Ad-hoc duties as required.

Skills / Experience

Required:

• Accounting qualification ACCA, CIMA, ACA with a minimum of 3 years PQE.
• Experience in house building industry
• Experience of joint venture house building schemes
• Strong budget and forecasting skills.
• Strong academic background.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Driven, hardworking and ambitious.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Accounting/Auditing and Finance

Construction