Our client, a successful and established business is recruiting a Financial Controller to join their team. The role is a newly created position reporting directly to the Finance Director with responsibility for a team of 5 staff.
Duties will be varied and include:
- Preparation of month end revenues and reviewing with FD
- Preparation of internal monthly management accounts and completion of reporting packs to a high level of accuracy within deadlines set (currently 5-6 working days)
- Attendance of monthly management meeting
- Bank reconciliations to be prepared for all company bank accounts on no less than a weekly basis and any items needing investigation are resolved in a timely manner
- Fixed assets including depreciation, additions, disposals, recording and reconciliations to ensure that all asset movements are correctly recorded
- Prepayments and accruals calculation, recording and posting
- Control account reconciliations and any items investigated and resolved on a timely basis Cashflow updating on daily basis
- Preparation of sales commission statements for each member of the Business Development team - Review of monthly payroll reports and investigation as appropriate and checking of detailed payment reports prior to payment authorisation
- Responsible to ensure that the HMRC payments submitted are correct and that the company is compliant with all the tax regulations including preparation of quarterly VAT returns
- Ensuring goods despatched correctly invoiced to customers, invoices received checking and authorisation, month stock checks carried out and recorded accurately, month analysis and postings
- Preparation for and management of annual company audit
- Administration of FOREX transactions
- Staff Management, the person will be responsible for providing support and counselling to their team and the maintenance of staff morale within the department.
- Performance management for their team to ensure that they are all performing well and to a high standard.
- Completion of staff appraisals on an annual basis and one to one meetings in order to ensure that all staff receives feedback about their individual performance and their training and development needs.
- Responsible for ensuring that personal training plans are developed and implemented. Hold regular team meetings to discuss the performance of the team and to illicit ideas from the staff in order to progress continuous improvement initiatives that will further improve the overall performance of the department in meeting the needs of the overall business.
- Conduct any investigations into any disciplinary lapses and action in accordance with company policy.
- Conduct any grievance interviews and attempt to solve any problems brought to light in accordance with company policy.
Key Skills Required
- Qualified accountant or qualified by experience preferably in a commercial environment.
- A proven manager/team leader with experience in managing/leading teams. The ability to act as a role model and lead by example.
- Possess the ability to think logically and clearly, able to make decisions and use their own judgement.
- Strong communication skills - both verbal and written especially in order to communicate effectively at all levels within the organisation.
- Self-motivated with the ability to organise and prioritise their work
- An ability to handle pressure and be able to maintain a professional approach at all times
- The successful candidate will be flexible, willing to work appropriate additional hours to meet the needs of the business and the customer.
- Effective team leader and player and be able to support and motivate a small team of people with an approachable management style
- Confident person with the ability to deal with people throughout the organisation and all levels within the organisation
- Strong communication skills - both written and verbal, especially in order to communicate effectively and professionally
- Logical and methodical approach with the ability and willingness to actively get involved and improve the processes flexible and adaptable
- Enthusiastic and self-motivated individual with the ability to work on own initiative
Package
An excellent package of holidays and benefits is available
Company Description
Accountancy Recruitment Wales Ltd is an independent recruitment agency which was founded by Sue Mountney and Colin Douglas, who have over 25 years combined accountancy recruitment experience. We recruit accountancy staff at all levels for organisations throughout South Wales. We are an independent agency with an ethical, professional, results-driven approach. Whether you are a candidate looking for a new job or a client hoping to recruit, we offer a consultative approach combined with unrivalled local market knowledge.
