Financial Controller

The role of the regional finance department is to provide accurate reporting on Company performance and prepare robust profit and cashflow forecasts which are key to shaping the Group strategy and facilitate effective decision-making along with the other Stonebond regions.

This encompasses collaboration with and challenge to other Company departments to ensure that underlying figures are monitored and to allow timely and realistic project appraisals.

Compliance with statutory deadlines (tax, audit) etc also forms a key part of the operation of the department.

The department aims to maintain relationships with all vendors and subcontractors by adopting a "paid on time every time" approach, with stringent checks ensuring payments made are timely and accurate.

The finance department continually strives to enhance the efficiency of the business by improving financial reporting processes both within the team and across the whole business.

These are illustrative duties, and the post holder will be expected to become involved in a range of work to enable the department to respond effectively to the requirements of the Company.

Ownership of all aspects of financial reporting including delivering month end. Review of journals, reconciliations and monthly management accounts with variance analysis.

• Review and challenge the regional financial information to ensure strong accuracy and taking full ownership of reporting to Group
• Understanding the Group requirements, constraints and challenges to drive regional performance for overall Group delivery
• Updating the appraisals on a monthly basis.
• Prepare and challenge the monthly profit forecast, including preparation of monthly project appraisals.
• Ownership of the weekly/ monthly cashflow forecast.
• Oversight of weekly payment runs and monitoring against cashflow.
• Review of the monthly payroll data and liaising with the payroll advisors.
• Ownership of the finance section of the monthly board pack.
• Ownership of the annual budget pack.
• Develop, maintain, review and challenge the controls and processes to maintain a strong control environment and risk management approach.
• Ensuring strong interaction and communication across regional finance teams for consistency in controls and processes
• Ownership of all statutory deadlines including the annual audit, corporation tax, VAT etc.
• Ad-hoc duties as required.

• ACA qualified with a minimum of 3 years PQE.
• Strong budget and forecasting skills.
• Strong academic background.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Driven, hardworking and ambitious.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

Hours: 08:30-17:30

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