Finance Manager (Controllership)
Posted 7 days ago by ivolve care & support
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom
Summary: This Finance Manager (Controllership) role, reporting to the Group Financial Controller, is a six-month position focused on enhancing group-wide financial processes during a transformative period. Key responsibilities include driving working capital improvements, liaising with external auditors for statutory accounts, and updating accounting policies. The role requires collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with substantial experience in financial accounting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparing consolidated debtors and creditors reporting for the Group monthly.
- Analysing and reviewing debtors and holding shared services teams accountable for cash collection.
- Managing aged debt issues and liaising with third-party legal support as needed.
- Analysing creditor days and proposing action plans for improvement.
- Liaising with external auditors to complete statutory accounts for all legal entities.
- Reviewing statutory accounts and managing the internal review process.
- Updating accounting policies in collaboration with key internal stakeholders.
- Preparing a schedule of accounting policies and proposing timelines for updates.
- Drafting new accounting policies where gaps exist and ensuring compliance with standards.
- Supporting ad-hoc accounting issues and reviewing proposed investments.
Key Skills:
- Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA/CA).
- Numerate and detail-focused.
- Organised and thorough.
- Able to work independently and build relationships with stakeholders.
- Able to prioritise work and meet deadlines under pressure.
- Flexible, adaptable, and proactive.
- Substantial experience in a financial accounting role.
- Desirable: Experience in a Group with a complex legal entity structure.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Chesterfield
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, this is a six-month role to provide additional support on key group-wide processes during a period of transformation for the team including a new finance system and establishing shared services. The main focus of the role will be to drive working capital improvements, liaising with external auditors to ensure statutory accounts are complete and fully reviewed and reviewing/ updating consistent accounting policies for the Group.
Your Responsibilities
- To focus on working capital for the group, including:
- Preparing consolidated debtors and creditors reporting and insight for the Group monthly to be included in the finance pack for the Board
- Analysing and reviewing debtors across the Group, understanding movements in the overall balance and holding shared services teams to account on cash collection and aged debt reduction
- Key point of escalation on aged debt issues, liaising with third party legal support to engage them as required
- Analysing creditor days for the group, proposing options to improve creditor days and action plans to support this
- To close out the preparation and submission of the statutory accounts process for the Group, including:
- Liaise with external auditors to complete the statutory accounts for all legal entities, including the consolidated group accounts
- Being the initial reviewer on behalf of ivolve for all statutory accounts and managing the review process internally with key stakeholders
- Holding external auditors to account to submit all statutory accounts on time for the Group
- To support the Group Financial Controller in updating accounting policies for the Group, including:
- Working with key internal stakeholders (e.g. Property team) in developing revised accounting policies for the Group in key areas such as capital expenditure and delegated authority
- Preparing a schedule of all accounting policies for the Group and prioritise the review and update, proposing a timeline to update and an ongoing review process
- Drafting accounting policies for the Group where there are current gaps in policy documentation and ensuring that these policies align with relevant accounting standards
- To support with any ad-hoc accounting issues or requests, including:
- Reviewing proposed investments and providing insight and guidance on appropriate accounting treatments (e.g. property works, software developments, IT infrastructure)
- Ad hoc accounting queries
Key Skills and Experience:
Essential
- Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA/CA).
- Numerate and detail focused.
- Organised and thorough.
- Able to work independently and build good relationships with key stakeholders to ensure engagement with key tasks
- Able to prioritise own work and work under pressure to deadlines.
- Flexible, adaptable and proactive.
- Substantial experience of working in a financial accounting role
Desirable
- Prior experience of working in a Group with a complex legal entity structure