The Group Financial Controller is responsible for leading the Group’s day-to-day financial operations, implementing and maintaining high quality and efficient financial accounting, compliance, and reporting processes and controls.
The role oversees business risk ensuring a sound internal control environment exists and there is effective compliance to all statutory obligations.
The role leads our internal and external historical reporting activities, delivering timely, reliable and insightful performance data. It also controls the Group’s treasury operations.
The role interfaces with the FP&A function within Corporate Finance and Development to help deliver forward looking budgets, forecasts and business plans.
Your focus and responsibilities will be:
Overview:
- Delivers the agreed financial operations objectives (goals) for each financial year. Works autonomously under the strategic direction and oversight of the CCFO.
- Apply good commercial acumen to the role, proactively manage the P&L and be able to effectively deputise for the CCFO when required.
- Instlls a ‘service orientated’ ethos of finance within the business - nurtures financial know-how, cadence and lifts interest in finance across the wider business leadership, supporting decision making.
- Develops and maintains a motivated, highly capable and effective financial operations team,
- Manages and improves the Group’s financial systems and processes and adherence to financial policies and procedures.
- Defines and oversees the operation of a robust, efficient system of internal controls, checks and balances to ensure completeness and accuracy, reliable revenue recognition and the protection of the Group’s assets.
- Provides insightful, reliable and timely historical financial performance reporting.
- Interfaces closely with the FP&A function within Corporate Finance and Development to support the delivery of high quality forward-looking budgets, forecasts and projections.
- Ensures full compliance in all jurisdictions with respect to financial reporting and taxation requirements.
- Oversees optimal intra-group trading and funding, complying with intercompany agreements and transfer pricing legislation.
Transactional:
- Leads all aspects of the Group’s financial accounting activities in accordance with the Group’s policies:
- Maintaining accurate and complete books of accounts for all Group entities and structuring to enable optimal performance reporting;
- Managing revenue recognition, capital expenditure and fixed asset accounting;
- Controlling intercompany transactions; and
- Defining and managing standard, efficient and timely month-end and year-end processes.
Group Reporting:
- Ensures adherence to all financial reporting deadlines across the Group as well as consolidating group results, including accounting for JV’s and Investments.
- Reviews month-to-date and year-to-date results versus plan and prior year in readiness for performance reporting and analysis.
- Oversees reconciliations between local and Group accounting/reporting requirements.
- Manages the groups statutory reporting requirements and audit procedures as well as conducting intercompany audit and compliance procedures.
Group Taxation:
- Manages the Group’s tax compliance in conjunction with external advisers.
- Oversees claims for tax rebates and reliefs.
- Works with external advisers to optimise the group’s tax position through the adoption of compliant and innovative arrangements.
Group Treasury:
- Executes the Group’s treasury policy adhering to agreed controls and strategies, ensuring the robust, secure and optimal custodianship of Group funds.
- Plans for and executes effective and optimal foreign exchange management.
- Manages the Group’s banking relationships, systems and accounts.
Other:
- Reviews and approves proposals and sales/purchasing contracts as part of standard approval processes.
- Implements and oversees the efficient management of Group working capital (accounts receivable, accounts payable and inventories).
- Provides support to outsourced providers to ensure consistency and continuous improvement of financial reporting systems and processes.
- Supports other financial and business related matters as the need arises from time to time.