Working closely with operational and leadership teams, you will provide meaningful financial insight to support strategic decision-making, drive profitability, and enhance financial performance across several international entities.
The role also includes management responsibility for a finance team member and offers the opportunity to be involved in systems improvements, business transformation projects, and wider finance initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Planning & Commercial Analysis
- Develop and maintain annual budgets, forecasts, and financial models.
- Deliver detailed revenue, profitability, and gross margin analysis.
- Provide commercial support to operational and leadership teams.
- Review contracts and commercial opportunities, providing financial input to support decision making.
- Contribute to pricing strategies, bid submissions, and profitability assessments.
- Prepare regular cash flow forecasts and monitor working capital performance.
- Lead the month-end close process across multiple international entities.
- Prepare and review accruals, prepayments, and other key journal entries.
- Ensure accurate revenue and cost recognition in collaboration with operational stakeholders.
- Maintain the fixed asset register, including depreciation, amortisation, and lease accounting.
- Complete balance sheet reconciliations and resolve outstanding issues promptly.
- Produce monthly management accounts and support group reporting requirements.
- Investigate and explain financial variances against budgets and forecasts.
- Manage and reconcile intercompany transactions across multiple jurisdictions.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across finance and operational functions.
- Monitor and report on operational and financial KPIs.
- Assist with the implementation and optimisation of financial and operational systems.
- Contribute to business simplification and efficiency projects.
- Identify opportunities to enhance controls, reporting accuracy, and process effectiveness.
- Line manage and support a finance team member responsible for accounts payable and receivable activities.
- Ensure timely processing and posting of financial transactions.
- Act as a key finance contact for stakeholders across the business.
- Build strong relationships with operational, commercial, and senior leadership teams.
- Collaborate with tax and external advisors to support compliance obligations.
- Support statutory audits and regulatory reporting requirements.
- Maintain robust accounting controls, policies, and procedures.
- Ensure compliance with relevant accounting standards and local regulations.
- Assist with tax accounting and compliance activities where required.
