Blair West are supporting a PLC in County Durham with the appointment of a Group Financial Controller. Reporting to the CFO, the successful candidate will lead a small team (three) playing a key part in the Company’s growth with regular engagement with the C-Suite.

The incoming Group Financial Controller will ideally be ambitious, with international manufacturing experience, alongside a strong technical accounting understanding across IFRS.

The opportunity:

• Lead a small finance team with day-to-day responsibility for the finance function.
• Ownership of the consolidated Group management accounts and legal entity management accounts within the Group globally
• Drive the annual business plan process and monthly business re-forecast.
• Monthly overhead cost review ensuring effective cost management.
• Balance sheet control and working capital management.
• Business case investment appraisals.
• Treasury management.
• Lead on year-end audit, preparation of statutory accounts for the Group and subsidiaries prepared under full IFRS.
• Tax compliance and preparation of tax computations.
• Input into improvement of Group’s controls and business processes ensuring integrity, accuracy and transparency of the systems.
• Continuous improvement pf financial processes driving automation and streamlining of business processes.
• Provide support to the CFO on various ad-hoc projects.

You’ll be the ideal candidate for this position if you’re:

• A qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACA/ACCA).
• Ambitious and willing to take ownership and solve problems.
• Flexible with your approach to support business requirements.
• Strong at communicating and liaising with other departments and external stakeholders.
• Organised with an attention to detail.
• Good with your IT skills.

Our commitment:

Blair West is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and inclusion at every stage of the recruitment process. We are committed to fairness, equality, and ongoing diversity training for our team to give our candidates and clients a feeling of belonging during their experience with us. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during their experience with us, please speak to their consultant. 

If you’d like to speak to someone about this opportunity:

Nigel Spurr:  [email protected] / 07885 813954