Our client is seeking a highly skilled Head of Finance - Financial Reporting & Control to join their UK-based team. This role offers the opportunity to lead a dedicated team of professionals, ensuring robust, accurate, and efficient production of financial information for statutory purposes, planning, and decision making. You will also have the chance to lead on ad hoc projects related to structuring, corporate development, and operational process change
- Lead a team of finance professionals
- Ensure robust and accurate financial reporting
- Lead on ad hoc projects related to structuring and corporate development
What you'll do:
As the Head of Finance - Financial Reporting & Control, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the financial future of our client's organisation. Your leadership skills will be put to good use as you guide a team of professionals towards achieving their goals. You will be responsible for producing monthly financials, defining accounting policies, completing statutory reporting requirements, managing cash flow, payroll management, ensuring VAT and Corporation Tax filings are accurate, developing accounting processes and systems, managing outsourced accounting partners for overseas subsidiaries, supporting on ad hoc projects including corporate development, restructuring programmes and process improvement.
- Lead and develop a team of 9
- Produce monthly financials including leading the monthly close processes across all group entities
- Define and ensure adherence to accounting policies, ensuring financial information is accurate and reliable
- Complete statutory reporting requirements including leading external audit process
- Manage cash flow and forecasting including AR, AP, managing banking relationships and identifying opportunities to improve working capital
- Manage payroll and outsourced payroll partners
- Ensure VAT and Corporation Tax filings are made accurately and efficiently with support from external advisors
- Develop accounting processes and systems to enhance capabilities and drive automation and efficiencies
- Manage outsourced accounting partners for overseas subsidiaries
- Support on ad hoc projects including corporate development, restructuring programmes and process improvement
What you bring:
As the ideal candidate for the Head of Finance - Financial Reporting & Control position, you bring a wealth of experience from the finance sector. Your strong leadership skills have been honed through managing teams and leading them to success. You have a deep understanding of accounting policies and statutory reporting requirements, and you are adept at cash management and cashflow forecasting. Your experience in managing payroll operations is complemented by your knowledge of VAT and Corporation Tax filings procedures. You have a track record of developing accounting processes and systems for efficiency, and you are comfortable managing outsourced accounting partners for overseas subsidiaries.
- Proven experience in a similar role within the finance sector
- Strong leadership skills with experience in team management
- Excellent knowledge of accounting policies and statutory reporting requirements
- Experience in cash management and cashflow forecasting
- Experience in managing payroll operations
- Knowledge of VAT and Corporation Tax filings procedures
- Experience in developing accounting processes and systems for efficiency
- Experience in managing outsourced accounting partners for overseas subsidiaries
Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates
