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Financial Controller
October 24, 2018 | Comments Off on Financial Controller
Our client operates two independently owned companies involved with heavy materials handling incorporating lift trucks, container handlers and hydraulic cranes to heavy industries nationwide and in Ireland. The company represents a sales Company (turnover £8-£10m) and the after-sales which involves service, maintenance contracts, spare parts and rentals businesses (Turnover £2.5m) and is looking to recruit a Financial Controller to their team.
The Role of the Financial Controller will be:
As the financial controller you will be responsible to the Chief Executive and the successful candidate will immediately become a member of the management team which comprises the Chief Executive, Sales Director and Operations Director. The role comes with one subordinate - an Accounts Assistant to assist in delivering this essential part of the business. The financial controller role is broken down as follows:-
* Preparation of monthly management accounts using Sage Line 50 financial Controller and Protean Service Control package for two separate companies
* Management of purchase and sales ledger functions, including making and receiving payments, credit control, and credit referencing.
* VAT - preparation of quarterly returns, monthly Intrastat arrivals and dispatches submissions on-line NOVA Registrations and monthly EC Sales returns (Intrastat).
* Preparation of monthly forward cash-flows over a 12-month period.
* Cash management on a daily basis with access via internet banking.
* Purchase of foreign currency as necessary for payment of suppliers (generally in Euros) and cash management of foreign currencies
* Warranty submission and supervision of warranty matters corresponding re disputes and unpaid warranty.
* Collation of engineer's overtime and sales commissions for salary preparation.
* Overseeing all aspects of finance for 2 companies with the aid of an accounts assistant including :-
o Processing customer invoices
o Daily cash allocation
o Maintenance of cashbooks and daily bank reconciliations
o Purchase invoice processing in Sage 50 Accounts Professional
o Processing of BACS payments and sending out remittances to suppliers
o Supplier statement reconciliations
o Dealing with supplier queries
o Processing Barclaycard statements
o Processing of fuel receipts
o Issuing customer statements
o Credit control
o Dealing with customer invoice queries
o Compilation of engineers overtime for payroll from time-sheets
o Balance sheet and inter-company reconciliations
o Payroll
* Liaison with auditors during year end audit
* Liaison with finance house with regards to long term finance leases / hire purchase agreements in place
* Work with Protean service software to ascertain forensic contract profitability (training will be provided)
Financial Controller - The Person
* Be a qualified and experienced management accountant. The Company would also look at individuals who can demonstrate they are 'Qualified by Experience'.
* Must be an excellent communicator - especially over the telephone
* Will have a friendly 'can-do' attitude and make all stakeholders feel comfortable that their issue will be sorted
* Will be very customer-focused and will keep his/her promises
* Have strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel and Outlook) plus practical Sage experience or near-equivalent
* Working in a small team.
Please apply ASAP
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