Financial Controller | Medway – on site | Up to £70k

Cobb & Jones are exclusively partnering with a private equity backed group of businesses who are highly acquisitive and going through an exciting period of growth and process improvement. Due to this growth, they have a newly created Financial Controller role, reporting to the Director of Finance, and managing a small team.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a business that has great people, where you can make a difference.

The Financial Controller will responsible for the preparation, consolidation, and interrogation of financial information for the largest business in the group, and reporting to the holding company.

Core responsibilities include:

• Interrogation of the monthly management accounts
• Support in the collation of the local monthly board packs
• Analysis of month-end accounts
• Preparation of the group consolidated accounts
• Managing the budgeting and forecasting process
• Support in the preparation and co-ordination of group audit & statutory accounts
• Company cashflow & working capital management
• Identifying areas for development within financial reporting across the business
• Seek cost consolidation / efficiency opportunities
• Providing ad hoc support to the Director of Finance
• Modelling, analysis, and data collation
• Liaison with external advisors and banks
• Supporting the onboarding of new acquisitions
• Managing and training the finance team to support internal growth
• Develop and implement internal control policies and procedures to ensure financial accuracy and compliance

You will be a fully qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA or ACA), have experience managing teams and possess strong interpersonal skills in order to forge strong working relationships throughout the business.