Job Description

YRH Finance Team is currently recruiting for an experienced Part-Time Financial Controller to join our team in Leeds

YRH Finance Team began in 2007 and we have been rapidly expanding ever since. We now have 100+ finance professionals and 130+ clients whom we work with every week and month. Our purpose is to help SME business owners be more successful and feel happier, and we do this by professionalising their accounting function; enabling them to access, and implement, accounting best practices and work with the best finance people \xe2\x80\x93 streamlining their accounting process and preparing and explaining financial information that positively impacts profit and cashflow.
Working portfolio with YRH Finance Team means you\xe2\x80\x99ll be able to work with amazing clients who really value the work you do with them. You\xe2\x80\x99ll be part of a team of finance professionals that brings a sense of togetherness and shared insights, and you\xe2\x80\x99ll be able to access our training and personal development which means you\xe2\x80\x99ll stay relevant in a challenging and quickly evolving and competitive market. And not to mention we find the clients - which helps you build a sustainable and steady income whilst allowing you to work flexibly. (P.S., we are not a franchise, temp, or recruitment agency!!)

The Role

As a Part-time Financial Controller for YRH Finance Team, you will be providing SME clients with a tailored financial support service to help address barriers with their accounting process while preparing and explaining financial information that positively impacts profit and cashflow.

You will be:

• A qualified and experienced Financial Controller, who has previously managed a finance team
• Proficient in double entry, cashflow, forecasting, and budgeting
• Confident assessing and reporting on cash flow; including managing and reporting on debtors and creditors where appropriate
• Providing the client with timely and easily understood, forward-looking financial information, which gives them clarity about the performance of their business and helps them make business decisions
• Providing robust analysis of the performance of the client\xe2\x80\x99s business and making suggestions for improving profitability and cashflow
• Providing performance forecasts that are accurate and reasonable, adopting forecasting assumptions that ensure accuracy and reasonableness, to enable confident decision making
• Implementing financial controls and processes that are robust and relevant to the size and type of the client\xe2\x80\x99s business and managing the quality, efficiency, and delivery of the bookkeeper where applicable
• Supporting the efforts of the Business Owner or Finance Director
• Able to communicate effectively, with good written, and oral English language skills

• Fully qualified Financial Controller (ACCA/CIMA/ACMA/FCCA/ICAEW) or QBE (5+ years) with experience in managing a finance team
• An expert in one of the following software: Xero, Sage50 or QuickBooks (preferably you have working knowledge of all three)
• Proficient Excel user (specifically in pivot tables, modelling, sumif, and vlookup formulas)
• Experienced in bank account management, reconciliations and bank liaison
• Confident presenting management reports and KPIs to directors and board
• Technical understanding of various industries and sectors
• Experience in functional organisation and management of a team, including deliverables
• Able to clearly express numbers in a commercial way
• Experience and understanding of setting up/enhancing a finance function, including developing relevant finance controls and processes
• Experience in being able to build relationships across all levels
• You are available for a minimum of 2 days per week and work 7.5-hour days on a self-employed basis
• Can travel happily within 45min to work with clients onsite
• You are confident, resourceful, take pride in your contribution, able to work to deadlines, and well organised