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Financial Controller, Poole, £70,000

Purpose

As Financial Controller, for a growing global engineering company, you will manage all financial and accounting operations for the UK. You will have the opportunity to help guide the company and ultimately contribute to the company’s growth and success.

Acting as the number two to the Managing Director, this position comes with a high level of responsibility, with the opportunity to make an impact on all areas of the financial control and capital forecasting. 

Employer

Rubicon’s client is an engineering firm who provides high quality products and solutions globally across a variety of industries. In addition to the opportunity to work for a renowned business, as Financial Controller you will also benefit from 26 days holiday (+ BHs) and life assurance.

Key Responsibilities as the Financial Controller:

Develop and manage accurate financial reporting, including monthly final management accounts, KPIs, and other commercial reporting
Ensure rolling financial forecasts are timely and support business critical decision making
Develop and maintain strong business processes and accounting policies
Review and authorisation of purchase invoices
Manage cash flow by tracking transactions and regularly reviewing system reports
Responsibility for the financial controls and governance including stock and fixed assets, to review such controls and resolve weaknesses
Conduct financial analysis, including cost analysis, pricing analysis, and profitability analysis, to identify areas for improvement, cost optimisation, and revenue enhancement.
Stock and WIP management
Capex review, planning and scheduling
Cost control and reduction
Experience and skills required as Financial Controller :

Current experience of cost accounting principles within manufacturing or engineering 

Proven track record in a financial controller role, or capable of taking the next step in your career
Have extensive knowledge and experience of working with ERP systems and be highly IT/Systems literate.
Be skilled at translating operational requirements into financial metrics.
An excellent communicator, with an understanding of business acumen.
A natural problem solver, with high attention to detail
Interested?

Working as the recruitment partner to our client on this Financial Controller vacancy, we have committed to submit suitable candidates ASAP, therefore please reply to this advert, or call Dominika or Amber to discuss the role in confidence.

Our team reviews every application. Please ensure your CV is submitted in Microsoft Word so that we can upload your details more easily to our system. If sent as a PDF, it will cause delays