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IT consulting business based in central London is seeking to hire a financial controller to bring the finance and accounting in house.
To be considered, you must have current or previous experience in the consulting sector.
Main responsibilities
- Preparation of the month end management reporting and board pack, ensuring figures abide by FRS102, are timely and accurate
- Calculation and review of KPIs monthly, monitoring and reviewing these for relevance and reporting
- Calculation and posting of revenue recognition and work in progress, and comparison against budgets and forecasts
- Preparation of profit and loss analysis
- Review and creation of the overhead budget, including presentation of monthly figures and insight into variances
- Preparation of working capital analysis and performance charts
- Conduct improvement cycles with key stakeholders, including financial advice on risk, profiling clients, forecast invoicing and working capital analysis
- Enhancing internal financial controls
- Efficiently manage cash flow and working capital to optimise liquidity
- Year end statutory reporting and liaising with external auditors
- Provide insight to the external quality ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 audits
- Review of and providing insight into corporation tax, R&D claims, VAT and other taxes relating to the business
- Completion and review of payment practice reporting, as well as implementing new processes and internal controls for supplier management
- Manage, prepare and present annual budget and forecast to operating board for approval ensuring strategic aims and objectives of the business are met with stress tests
- Create balanced scorecard for the business incorporating the KPIs and wider non-financial KPIs to review the health and performance of the business monthly
Your background
- Qualified accountant and graduate
- Consulting sector experience essential
- Keen to step up to an FD position in the medium term
- Bright and articulate, able to work effectively across functions
- High attention to detail and strong technical accounting skills
