Interim Financial Controller

The Company

Established over 80 years ago, this UK leading family-owned business is renown for delivering the finest products and customer service.

Role

Reporting to the Finance Director and leading a team of twelve across finance, credit control and payroll, you will provide hands-on oversight of all financial controls, reporting and treasury activities. Your mandate is to deliver timely, accurate insight, safeguard cash, strengthen governance and drive continuous improvement across our high-volume manufacturing and distribution environment.

Key responsibilities

• Financial control & compliance - prepare draft statutory accounts, VAT & HMRC returns, industry/government submissions and manage the year-end audit.
• Treasury & credit control - oversee cashflow forecasting, banking relationships, collections and adherence to credit policy.
• Management reporting - produce complete monthly management accounts, margin and volume analysis, balance-sheet reconciliations.
• Budgeting & forecasting - coordinate annual budgets, re-forecasts and investment appraisals.
• Systems & data - own finance system integrity, develop BI dashboards (Power Pivot/Power Query) and support improvement projects.
• Leadership - recruit, mentor and develop a multi-disciplinary team, instilling a culture of rigour, service and collaboration.

Personal Skills

• Fully qualified accountant ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
• Minimum 4 years post-qualification experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment, with at least 3 years in a senior lead role managing cross-functional finance teams.
• Advanced Excel skills and business-intelligence expertise (Power Pivot / Power Query or similar).
• Proven record of system implementation and process improvement.
• Outstanding analytical, communication and problem-solving abilities with meticulous attention to detail.
• Pragmatic, hands-on leader able to engage at every level of the organisation.

For further information, please contact Rhian Mountjoy