Financial Controller

Growing business
Will receive a lot of exposure in this role

About Our Client

An exciting and growing infrastructure business. World renowned for excellent and efficient service.

Job Description

Manage the Group's financial reporting requirements, including review and filing of financial statements across UK and Jersey jurisdictions.
Maintain professional relationships with external and internal auditors to ensure smooth audit compliance processes, timely filing of accounts and implementation of recommendations.
Ensure compliance with the Group's debt covenant requirements, including review of financial ratios, reporting to ledgers on covenant compliance, monitoring loan and interest balances and requesting loan draw downs where business needs require.
Primary responsibility for all Treasury functions within the Group. This includes managing cash and working capital to ensure sufficient cash resources are available to meet business needs, hedging of the Group's interest rate exposure, maintaining relationships with the Group's lenders, financial advisers, hedge counter parties and banking service providers.
Ensure the group's compliance with Tax Law (including Income tax, VAT, CIS compliance, employment taxes. This includes managing the relationship with the Group's tax advisors, ensuring all tax filings are made in a timely manner. Ensuring that tax impacts are assessed and incorporated into commercial transactions and decision making.
Oversight of month end processes, including AP and AR close, month end postings, consolidation adjustments and review of month end financials and reports.
Assisting in managing the Group's capital expenditure programme including review of capex business cases, providing accounting advice and formal review and approval of all capital expenditure.
Establish, maintain and develop best financial practice through the implementation of controls, procedures, ERP improvements and delegated financial authority.
Ensure that changes to accounting, audit and tax law is incorporated into the operations and reporting for the Group.
Provide effective leadership and development of the Financial Control team creating an engaged and high performing team to meet the business challenges.
Act as business change agent proactively identifying and implementing process improvements within the team and across the business.
Develop and maintain an 'end to end' process view and understanding of cross functional impacts both within the department and across the business

The Successful Applicant

ACA (or equivalent) Qualified Accountant, with significant post qualification experience
Good technical knowledge of UK GAAP, Corporation Tax and VAT
Working knowledge of International Accounting Standards
Experience with debt covenant reporting and cash flow management
A strong working knowledge of financial systems, controls and improvements
Significant experience in a senior management positions
Management of Financial Accounting departments
Driven improvement in control environment and effectiveness of Financial Accounting team.
Proven ability to lead, develop and motivate teams of qualified, part-qualified and non-qualified accountants
Evidence of commercial awareness and able to demonstrate a broad-based view of issues, events and activities and a perception of their longer term impact or wider implications