Financial Controller

Stonebond Group; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading finance department in the UK is seeking an experienced finance professional to take ownership of financial reporting and forecasting. This role requires ACA qualification and a minimum of 3 years post-qualification experience. The successful candidate will handle month-end reporting, budget preparation, and cash flow management while ensuring compliance with statutory deadlines. Strong communication skills and advanced Excel knowledge are essential. Join a supportive environment that fosters professional growth and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of all aspects of financial reporting including delivering month end.
• Review and challenge the regional financial information to ensure strong accuracy.
• Prepare and challenge the monthly profit forecast, including preparation of monthly project appraisals.
• Oversight of weekly payment runs and monitoring against cashflow.
• Ownership of the finance section of the monthly board pack.
• Ensure strong interaction and communication across regional finance teams.
• Ad-hoc duties as required.

Skills

ACA qualified with a minimum of 3 years PQE

Strong budget and forecasting skills

Strong academic background

Excellent attention to detail

Driven, hardworking and ambitious

Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel

Job description

The role of the regional finance department is to provide accurate reporting on Company performance and prepare robust profit and cashflow forecasts which are key to shaping the Group strategy and facilitate effective decision-making along with the other Stonebond regions.

This encompasses collaboration with and challenge to other Company departments to ensure that underlying figures are monitored and to allow timely and realistic project appraisals.

Compliance with statutory deadlines (tax, audit) etc also forms a key part of the operation of the department.

The department aims to maintain relationships with all vendors and subcontractors by adopting a “paid on time every time” approach, with stringent checks ensuring payments made are timely and accurate.

The finance department continually strives to enhance the efficiency of the business by improving financial reporting processes both within the team and across the whole business.

These are illustrative duties, and the post holder will be expected to become involved in a range of work to enable the department to respond effectively to the requirements of the Company.

Ownership of all aspects of financial reporting including delivering month end. Review of journals, reconciliations and monthly management accounts with variance analysis.

• Review and challenge the regional financial information to ensure strong accuracy and taking full ownership of reporting to Group
• Understanding the Group requirements, constraints and challenges to drive regional performance for overall Group delivery
• Updating the appraisals on a monthly basis.
• Prepare and challenge the monthly profit forecast, including preparation of monthly project appraisals.
• Ownership of the weekly/ monthly cashflow forecast.
• Oversight of weekly payment runs and monitoring against cashflow.
• Review of the monthly payroll data and liaising with the payroll advisors.
• Ownership of the finance section of the monthly board pack.
• Ownership of the annual budget pack.
• Develop, maintain, review and challenge the controls and processes to maintain a strong control environment and risk management approach.
• Ensuring strong interaction and communication across regional finance teams for consistency in controls and processes
• Ownership of all statutory deadlines including the annual audit, corporation tax, VAT etc.
• Ad-hoc duties as required.

Skills & Experience

• ACA qualified with a minimum of 3 years PQE.
• Strong budget and forecasting skills.
• Strong academic background.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Driven, hardworking and ambitious.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

Hours: 08:30-17:30

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The level of support, knowledge sharing and training that colleagues across the business, regions and disciplines were able to provide was very refreshing to see and experience. This was a key part of the culture that made me feel very welcome at Stonebond and an environment in which I was able to learn new concepts very quickly.