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Financial Controller
Based: Southampton
Salary: £50,000 DOE Plus Benefits
(4 Days In Office, Friday WFH)
Financial Controller required for a fast growing IT Business based in the Southampton Area.
Fast growing venture capital business investing in SMEs and start-ups with 80 employees at present with a portfolio spread across IT, Fintech, SAAS, AI, and online Pharma.
The directors expect revenue to increase from c £10m to c £50m within 3 years. The company now wishes to recruit a Financial Controller. Permanent role office based. This is an excellent opportunity to join this business at a critical time.
Specifications:
- Qualified Accountant / Similar Experience
- Experience in contracted revenue business
- Commercial responsibility and delivery needed
- Strong character: used to managing cash flow and dealing with suppliers and other creditors.
- Up to date technically
- Liaising with and reporting to banks, auditors and external investors as well as directors.
Key responsibilities:
- Timely reporting of accounts and KPIs
- Management of existing finance team (6 people) order processing, credit control, billing functions.
- Review adequacy of current accounting and billing systems and implement a system update if required.
- Take control of acquired businesses and ensure adequate consistent accounting procedures in place
- Developing monthly management accounts and MI to suit the needs of the business including financial modelling, project appraisals and scenario planning
- Financial modelling experience
Experience needed:
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, including experience of using Sage, Xero and Quickbooks. There will be a need to rationalise the number of platforms used in the future.
- Good people management skills, having managed a small team.
- Able to multi-task handling a broad range of tasks both detailed and big-picture.
- Ability to work effectively at speed and under pressure, whilst maintaining attention to detail.
- Good business acumen, convincing communication skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills with ability to manage and meet tight deadlines enthusiastically.
- Charismatic personality to mentor and support the finance team members.
- Ensure robust cash flow management and forecasting
- Develop and maintain relationships with other department heads to ensure the Finance team has full visibility of ongoing activities
- Adhoc analysis and modelling as and when required by senior management.
