Divisional Financial Controller - Concrete Categories

WE ARE 200 years of history and over 2000 employees strong. WE ARE a business loaded with opportunity and career progression. WE ARE innovators, designers, makers and engineers who manufacture and provide smart, efficient, and effective building products and solutions.

Through our customer relationships, diverse building product range and solutions, we enable the creation of inspirational homes, places and spaces for us all to live and work better. With eight core product categories, underpinned by expert design and technical services, we work with architects, builders, merchants and the wider construction supply chain to build the face of Britain.

We are fully committed to a net zero future and continue to invest in expertise and product development to manufacture more efficiently and sustainably. We pride ourselves on leading for new, innovative and sustainable products and solutions, both for today and for a new era of building.

To support our progress, we are currently recruiting for a Divisional Financial Controller to come and join our team at our head office in Ibstock, Leicestershire, LE67 6HS
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• Lead and manage the divisional finance team including training, structure and staff development.
• Provide and develop key management information/reporting/analysis to make informed business decisions and to help drive performance improvement.
• Provide strategic thought leadership and challenge in long-range planning ensuring that all decision-making impacting business decisions are reviewed and evaluated to identify financial risks and opportunities.
• Lead and manage the weekly, quarterly reforecast and annual budget process to drive performance actions and initiatives and coordinate the 5 year strategic plan in conjunction with the Divisional Finance director, highlighting any impairment risks.
• As a member of the Senior Finance Leadership team help drive the wider finance agenda and development of the enterprise wide finance function.
• Interpret, explain and drive performance within the business, working closely with the leadership teams on initiatives by validating, challenging operational targets into executable plans.
• Coordination and approval of all capex projects, and where returns are used to support the investment, validating based upon recognised return criteria (payback, IRR, NPV, ROI).
• Ensure robust financial controls and relevant operational processes within the BUs and divisional finance teams are appropriate and effective in mitigating financial risk (EG. Cycle counts, balance sheet recs etc).
• Support the Divisional FD and leadership teams on acquisitions including validating assumptions, DD and supporting integration work streams.

• 7+ years Qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Leading, coaching and mentoring a finance team – training, structure and development into a high performing team and ensuring alignment with Ibstock's values.
• Previous experience working within the construction manufacturing industry.
• High levels of drive, dynamism, "can do" attitude and high levels of self‑assurance & resilience.
• Well‑developed skills in communication, presentation, negotiation and collaboration across matrix organisational structures with strong communication skills across both finance and non‑financial teams.
• Forecasting/Planning/Budgeting coordination across multi entity, multi-site, multi-product high volume SKU manufacturing.
• Comfortable engaging, challenging and influencing stakeholders across functions and at all levels including up to ELT.
• Detailed understanding of manufacturing/product costing to drive product profitability and factory optimisation actions by "bringing numbers to life".
• Able to work flexibly with different types of organisations (SME) and help create and deliver the transition into a PLC environment as processes, reporting and control diverge.
• Understanding cost, price/volume/mix/ margin and drivers and influencers of performance and leading on the annual cost/price process.
• Strong understanding of Financial systems, governance and controls and supporting on system enhancements / developments.
• Experienced at coordinating the annual audit to the…