Job Description

In this role, you\'ll lead the operational financial support, ensuring delivery of robust and timely management accounts, budgets, forecasts, and analysis. This role does also have an element of tax so any experience with tax would be welcome.

• Oversight and management of the production of monthly management accounts. To include challenge, variance analysis, gap bridge, and commentary to support the numbers.
• Oversee and review the production and delivery of robust and timely annual budgets and forecasts. Coordinate the process performed by the team beneath with their stakeholders. Be the finance lead on the coordination of sales, margin, and labour budgets/forecasts.
• Act as the senior finance contact for the day-to-day financial operation (tasks and processes) of the specified business areas, ensuring all financial queries are assigned and resolved on a timely basis.
• Attend monthly team meetings to present financial results and help drive performance. Influence internal and external stakeholders with regards to insight of performance themes and opportunities.
• Management of a team of two. Lead, coach, motivate and develop the team and their skills base. Co-ordination and directing of activities, setting the teams workload priorities, ensuring adequate cover for periods of absence.
• Lead the team to develop and automate finance processes and regular analysis to enable development of roles for faster delivery and proactive analysis focus.
• Ownership of all VAT tasks to include but not limited to: VAT returns, payments on account, partial exemptions, BRSA, opt to tax, S198, & reconciliations.
• Ownership of all Corporation Tax tasks to include but not limited to: CT computations, returns, payments on account, capital allowances & reconciliations
• Dealing with auditors, tax advisors and HM Revenue & Customs to respond to enquiries, both general and technical.

innovative organization with a lot of exiting growth|Great team and culture

• An experienced finance professional, with a recognised accounting qualification and appropriate post qualification experience
• Strong commercial acumen, with positive and progressive characteristics to provide solutions and ability to think strategically and autonomously
• Strong analytical ability with high attention to detail, but also able to understand and adapt style for a holistic approach
• Excellent communications skills with the experience of, and strong ability to, challenge and influence colleagues above and below

Our client is a well recognised retail brand with a very exciting proposition which has led to recent growth.

A great opportunity to develop and add value to a growing sector of a flourishing organisation.

Michael Page