Financial Controller - PBSUK

Job Purpose This role is to ensure the integrity of the financial statements for PBSUK and to partner with the business to offer key insights to enable the business to reach its goals.
Job Overview You will lead and support a team that deals with:

-a)    Preparation of Management Accounts, Statutory Accounts, Budgets, Forecasts and other ad hoc reporting (Team of
4).b)    Transactional processing for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable (Team of 15)
You will lead enhancements to processes, systems and routines to improve the quality and timeliness information.

You will help interpret and analyse the Profit & Loss account, providing both support but also constructive challenge to the relevant business heads to seek optimal balance between financial performance and departmental objectives.  The aim is to sharpen our approach with a clear focus upon margin analyses, promoting a better understanding of profit flows, ultimately improving decision making and profitability, considering both short term and long term elements.
The role will also involve overseeing cash flow and ensuring that cash requirements are clearly forecast and communicated. You will co-ordinate with other company’s and group finance to share best practice and drive a consistent approach across the Group.

You will ensure budgeting and quarterly forecasting reflects business activity and identified opportunities and risks and that deviations are identified and acted upon in a timely manner.

You will act as the designate to the Finance Director – PBSUK. Reporting to Finance Director – PBSUKKey Responsibilities Lead a team which provides the following:

Timely and Accurate Management Accounts
· Month end close by end of working day 6 and reporting in line with Group deadlines.
· Drive accuracy across the team and with the application of effective controls and judgement, mitigate errors to immaterial levels
· Insightful reporting and analysis of variances
· Ownership of P&L and Balance Sheet for PBSUK.  Deep level of understanding of the transactions going through the ledger and robust support for the balance sheet
· Also responsible for Rainy City Properties and Peninsula Legal Services Commercial Insights
· Create and implement a framework for robust and detailed reporting around operational KPIs, including financials, efficiency projects and staffing – linking to both business and Group reporting requirements
· Prepare and present financial analyses to key stakeholders – identifying emerging trends or themes in metrics to positively impact future performance
· Seek to identify and implement improvements in speed and accuracy of operational / financial MI preparation and delivering ‘one version of the truth’ and common data dictionaries within PBS – this will also include close working collaboration with Group finance

Financial control
· Ensure that key financial controls and are designed, documented and executed.  Ensure that key reconciliations are performed and fully understood.
· Analysis and challenge of costs that are not in line with procurement policies and budgets / forecasts.

· Increase use of systems and automation to improve financial control and increase efficiency.
· Ensuring financial statements are completed in line with applicable accounting standards and policies such as revenue recognition are appropriately supported.
· Key reconciliation between Unity contracts and other support
· Group re-charges are effectively managed
· Completion of VAT return and other ad-hoc tasks
· Work closely with the Group Payroll and commissions accountant, performing a high-level monthly review and sign off control process

Business partnering
· Acting as a key interface with the PBSUK management team including sharing relevant financial information with stakeholders.
· Support the forecasting activity alongside Management reporting to set ambitious but deliverable targets and ensuring sufficient granularity to measure performance and costs within budget.
· Provide interface with operational teams to gather and critique input and ensure regular communication of what is set.  Provide monthly analyses and commentary around variances.

Team management
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