Financial Controller

Anglia Components Ltd; Wisbech; On-site; GBP 50,000 - GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading components supplier in Wisbech seeks a Financial Controller to lead a team, oversee finance functions, and ensure compliance with statutory returns. The ideal candidate will have an ACCA or CIMA qualification, strong VAT knowledge, and excellent team management skills. Benefits include a competitive salary, a four-day working week, and various employee rewards. This is an office-based role.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Four-day working week

27 days holiday

Life insurance

Medical cash plan

Gift card rewards

Employee BBQs

Qualifications

• ACCA or CIMA qualification with CPD.
• Experience in managing a team and internal customers.
• Strong knowledge of VAT and payroll compliance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee sales and purchase ledger systems.
• Manage VAT and statutory returns.
• Ensure month end close and management accounts are completed.

Skills

ACCA/CIMA qualification

Team management

VAT knowledge

Payroll compliance

Presentation skills

Analytical skills

Advanced spreadsheet skills

Education

ACCA/CIMA qualification

Job description

The role

This role is an office-based position leading a team of five and will be responsible for the whole finance function and continuous process improvements.

Financial Controller

Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

Key role responsibilities and duties

• Overall responsibility for overseeing the processing of sales and purchase ledger systems.
• Overall responsibility for overseeing general ledger transactions and Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Overall responsibility for ensuring month end close, monthly management accounts and variance analysis is achieved in a timely manner with no issues.
• Manage VAT, Statistical, Statutory and Government returns meeting strict timescales.
• Manage, review, and authorisation of bank payments.
• Acting as main point of contact with external auditors and ensuring strict timescales are met.
• Ensuring compliance with funding covenants.
• Managing daily cash flow and forecast business cash flow requirements. Invoice finance reconciliations and returns.
• Manage loan stock drawdowns. Preparing reports for submission and analysing monthly stock payments between stock classes where necessary.
• Overseeing the preparation of Hong Kong management and statutory accounts.
• Oversee all payroll administration functions.
• Fixed Asset management.
• Investigate, analyse, and comment on areas of expenditure where adherence to company policy is required.
• Supplier and customer visits, with potential for occasional overseas travel when required.

Skills required

• Qualification in ACCA/CIMA and maintaining CPD (Continuing Professional Development).
• Experienced in managing a team and internal customers, excellent people skills required.
• Strong knowledge of VAT and Payroll compliance.
• Solid understanding of business and financial operations.
• Presentation skills to an audience up to fifty people required.
• Ability to work independently and on own initiative, within a team environment.
• Ability to work well under pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail.
• Highly organised with excellent analytical skills.
• Advanced level spreadsheet skills and PC literacy.
• Forward thinking, recommend system changes for speed, accuracy, and compliance requirements.
• Strong time management and organizational skills, whilst retaining an ability to flex and adapt where needed.

In return we offer

• A competitive salary.
• Four-day working week, operating Monday to Thursday
• 27 Days holiday
• Life insurance 4 x salary
• Medical cash plan
• Early Pay
• £250 Giftcard for reaching 5, 10, 15 or 20 years length of service
• 25 Year service award, £1000 holiday voucher, champagne, flowers, certificate and photo
• House move day (after 2 years service, once per five year period)
• Champagne for special birthday’s 21, 40, 50, 60
• Employee BBQ’s

Apply Now

For further information, please contact our Recruitment Department on 01945 473536 between 9.00am & 5.30pm. Alternatively, send your CV by email to [e-mail].

To protect your personal data; CV’s will only be accepted by email, therefore do not post or hand deliver as they will not be reviewed.

Recruitment policy

Anglia believes diversity amongst its workforce creates more opportunity for both personal and business success. We look to recruit great minds from all walks of life, regardless of gender, age, ethnic background, sexual orientation or disability. Our main aim is to find people who with varied characteristics, experiences and backgrounds work together collectively to contribute to bringing great results, which benefits the culture and where people feel they belong in Anglia’s already successful team. To view our recruitment privacy policy please click here.

Contact Information

For further information, please contact our Recruitment Department on 01945 473536 between 9.00am & 5.30pm. Alternatively, send your CV by email to [e-mail].

To protect your personal data; CV’s will only be accepted by email, therefore do not post or hand deliver as they will not be reviewed.

Note for recruitment agencies

Under no circumstances should speculative candidate CVs or résumés be sent using any of the contact details on this or any other page of this website. Should your company send speculative candidate CVs or résumés, you accept that Anglia Components Plc. has the right to pursue and engage the candidate without any obligation to any third party terms and conditions, even if these form a part of the CV or résumé. This includes, but is not limited to, agency fees.