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Ref - Financial Controller – Ref 4089

Financial Controller

FCCA Financial Controller seeking a new opportunity in Grimsby, Immingham or North Lincolnshire. Experienced in building strong business partnerships and managing/mentoring medium sized teams. Enjoys a challenge and has been involved with the implementation of various systems. Proficient in the use of Windows, well versed with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel) and has also used SAP, TM1 Pegasus and Sage.

Managing numerous cost centres including IT and Marketing which includes business partnership with the budget holders, helping them manage their budget and putting their budgets together, and requesting extra funding
Advised, when cost savings were required, where there may be areas of surplus, or consequences of taking out certain costs. This included having 6 direct reports.
Discuss queries and overspends with budget holders
Complete the month end including the cost centres, fixed asset recs and the reconciliation of sales and cost of sales to planning software. Also responsible for reconciling the accounts, assisted with cash flow on a weekly basis
Submit for consolidation with the other sites and present results to the CFO, and answer and questions asked by them or the owners
Checked the capex submissions and processed them for authorisation and input them on FA register, along with disposals and transfers. This included some asset verification and asking questions about old equipment when new equipment was purchased
Completed VAT return and ensured that business was compliant with MTD for VAT. Processed the EC sales and intrastat submissions.
Responsible for the PSA submission for the whole company, along with the expenses, ensuring receipts were provided and anything that required declaration was treated correctly. Provided process notes for HMRC and answered questions based on responsibilities
Involved with moving onto a new ERP software. Involved in the mapping and the moving over costs, ensuring intersystem reconciliation and also involved in the new purchase order system, making sure adequate authority limits were used and maintained. A superuser to support the various users.
Involved in roll out of new expenses system, ensuring that tax and government reporting requirements were met, and improved efficiency, as it was used to provide automated details for PSA submission

Oversaw overheads and fixed assets, budgeting and forecasting, and was responsible for month and year-end accounts, and various reporting requirements
Writing off stock or packaging
Changed the way the overheads were done and built up a list of known contracts and expected costs, so accruals and prepayments and forecasts were accurate
Changed process and reporting, putting in cash forecasts for capital projects and approval processes for expenditure that was previously uncontrolled
Covered meetings for the Site Finance Director including monthly results reporting to Group FD
Ensured that capex submissions started following the same process as the rest of the business, and also challenged capex and the orders raised on it
Investigated and identified issues with the reporting of labour and ensured that received accurate information, and was updated regularly
Involved in a daily AP critical call with group and team helped identify issues and send out details to other sites
Dealt with external and internal auditors, including auditors looking at site machinery valuations

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