Finance Business Partner

To lead the finance team, managing all internal and external financial reporting, providing value adding management information and analysis, to challenge the business to drive improvement, and ultimately support the business in delivering it’s strategy and achieving it’s objectives.

To act as a business partner to the Managing Director as well as the Regional Sales Managers in providing them with the information and analysis required to support in making strategic business decisions, and to challenge them to drive business improvements.

Assist RSM and depots with compiling the monthly rolling forecast and consolidate into an overall rolling forecast for the business prior to sending to the wider group.

Prepare a monthly variance analysis to explain changes in the monthly rolling forecast vs Budget (monthly & Full Year).

Identify opportunities for efficiency savings across the business.

Attend quarterly regional meetings and present financial results by region.

Work closely with the Assistant Accountant to manage all day-to-day bookkeeping requirements and full month end procedures, including bank reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, payroll (working with in-house group payroll officer), balance sheet reconciliations, etc.

Oversee the Purchase Ledger and Credit Control functions, managing the performance of the team members responsible for these areas.

Manage all inventory control procedures and related analysis and reconciliations (inventory is spread across depots, engineer vans and client sites) – Stocktakes are conducted quarterly.

Lead all FP&A activity including but not limited to:

• Cash flow forecasting
• Rolling P&L forecast
• Annual Budget
• 3 Year Planning
• Capital Expenditure Budgets and Forecasts

Manage all UK and Group reporting requirements, ensuring timely and accurate submissions, including but not limited to:

• Daily sales and order intake
• Monthly P&L by depot/region including allocation of central costs
• Monthly reporting of key customers/sales/profitability
• Monthly & Quarterly P&L reporting
• Quarterly Capex and IFRS
  16 Lease reporting
• Ad hoc reporting as required by customers/key accounts

Large variations to expected & budget P&L will need to be flagged and discussed with the Group FD in a timely manner.

Manage all external reporting requirements, ensuring timely and accurate submissions, including but not limited to:

• VAT returns
• Corporation Tax returns
• CIS returns
• National Statistics surveys and returns
• Annual statutory financial statements
• Insurance requests, working closely with appointed group insurance broker

Build a relationship with both internal and external auditors, providing all necessary information required by them in order to complete their procedures, and working with them to implement any control recommendations that may arise.

Lead the reporting to key stakeholders, including monthly P&L reviews with Regional Managers, monthly business reviews with Group MD/Group FD, quarterly Controlling meetings with the wider group.

The right candidate needs to be able to successfully work in a matrix organization and build very strong working relationships with both the Group FD and the internal team. Being able to actively challenge the business is imperative to making this role successful.

To work closely with the Business Systems Manager to ensure that the IT systems in place (new Field Service System and CRM to be implemented ) provide the appropriate support to the business.

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