Financial Controller - Job Summary
We are recruiting a collaborative, effective and motivated Financial Controller to manage the day-to-day operational accounting and treasury functions (including 1 team member), ensuring that the finance team continues to provide best-in-class support to the business as it grows. This role will maintain efficiency of processing and reporting as the business grows, while ensuring a robust control environment. This role covers both the UK company and overseas subsidiaries, including managing overseas service providers and monthly consolidation of subsidiary data into the management accounts.
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified accountant to work in a vibrant commercial scale-up business, where we offer challenge and development within a supportive environment.
Key responsibilities
- Line management of 1 team member and management of operational finance function.
- Initial preparation of monthly management accounts to agreed timelines, including consolidation of overseas subsidiaries and preliminary commentary, within required timelines.
- Oversight of purchase/sales order processing process and outputs and of payroll processing function.
- Managing relationships and ensuring flow of information between Echion and external partners, including payroll processing, VAT returns, annual audit, R&D tax returns, overseas service providers etc
- Treasury management of cash and currency, including short-term cash-flow forecasting and preparation of payments for approval by Management Team.
- Ensuring that external reporting timelines are met (UK and overseas)
- Providing support on projects including grants (application and claims)
- Working with external accountants and Echion’s finance team to deliver audited accounts and corporation tax returns, including R&D Tax Credit claims, within four months of the year end.
- Working with the CFO to review, improve and implement control and process improvements throughout the finance function and into the wider business.
