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Overview

Join this leading precision engineering firm as a Financial Controller as they continue to expand operations in serving a number of prestigious clients with high precision engineered components. Long established business, wonderful team.

As Financial Controller here you will be responsible for all financial activities within the company including implementation and development of financial procedures, forecasting, budgeting, working capital management, grant projects, inventory auditing, development of job costing, capital investment appraisals, cost analysis and development of new reporting platforms for monthly board pack, forecasting and scenario planning.

Other duties will include:

• Production of monthly management accounts and analysis
• Production of annual government statutory accounts in conjunction with external accountant
• Development and implementation of financial procedures
• Track overhead spend and variance analysis against budgets and cost reduction targets
• Lead costs awareness and work in partnership with management team to reduce cost variance and collaborate on cost-driven continuous improvement projects
• Cost simulation to benchmark, scenario plan, and model changes
• Supporting working capital monitoring, reporting, and scenario planning processes
• Establish and implement costing methods and validate the cost of manufacturing processes
• Update product costs, audit, and manage ongoing monitoring
• Working with operations on inventory and WIP auditing
• Monitoring working capital cashflow, working with management team to meet credit and debtor targets while developing good working relationships with key suppliers and customers
• Supporting grant applications, monitoring and claims process
• Prepare capex investment appraisals
• Post-capex investment implementation review
• Manage all financial scenario planning and modelling
• Manage the monthly rolling forecasting and annual budgeting processes across the company, covering sales, margin, overheads, projects, capital investment, working capital & cashflow
• Lead ERP development team
• Develop financial reporting
• Identify, implement, and develop financial planning and analytics tool incorporating forecasting and scenario planning
• Ad hoc projects as identified by GM

The ideal candidate for the role of Financial Controller will be:

• Fully qualified accountant - CIMA/ACCA/ACA accreditation or equivalent
• Successfully lead projects across multiple departments
• Worked in a manufacturing environment with ERP and real-time data
• The ability and track record in using continuous improvement methods to drive change and improve financial position
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to clarify and communicate complex issues to non-financial people
• Strong goal-orientated person with developed analytic and problem-solving skills
• Able to demonstrate good presentation and networking skills