The purpose of the role is to provide succession planning for the current Finance Director who will be moving within the Group.The role reports into an Operations team Controller based overseas with a dotted line into the local Managing Director. The day to day responsibility of the role entails running the finance and company secretary functions with responsibility for all financial management, inventory reporting, costing, budgets and forecast etc however first and foremost the role is to be the Business Partner to the Managing Director and 50 - 60% of the role will involve business strategy and dealing with non financial people. The Finance Director Designate will be expected to take a leading role with both internal and external customers.
Who we're looking for
The ideal candidate will be degree qualified and a qualified accountant with US GAAP experience and a manufacturing background. They will be equally comfortable commanding the detail as well as dealing with innovations and general business matters. With strong commercial acumen, the individual will have natural gravitas with the finance team, the rest of the local management team and overseas senior executives hence strong communication skills are paramount. They will be comfortable working in an environment which empowers senior executives to operate independently, but is also respectful of traditional hierarchies. This role would suit an existing Finance Director looking for an exceptional career opportunity although our client would also consider an experienced Financial Controller from a sizeable organisation looking for a step up.
About our client
Our client, one of Britain's leading manufacturing companies, is a wholly owned subsidiary of a highly profitable Global technology leader in design manufacture and customer support. The business prides itself on its strong sense of team work and co-operation and the culture locally promotes autonomy and empowerment.
What's on offer
Up to £80,000
Michael Page Contact For further info, apply or phone on 0207 831 2000. Job Ref: 13105528 Your application will be sent to Georgina Crompton.
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