iMultiply is excited to be supporting a world leading e-commerce business in the travel sector who are looking to hire a Financial Controller for a 6 month FTC to cover a period of maternity leave.
The Opportunity
You’ll be responsible for leading the Finance team in Edinburgh focused on the Payments and Customer Service functions. Reporting into the Group Financial Controller, you’ll manage a team of 7 supporting the day-to-day financial management and control to these critical areas of the business across the UK and international markets. You’ll bring ideas about what ‘good’ looks like in terms of process, seeking opportunities to automate wherever you can supported by their Data teams.
The ever-expanding business changes by the day, and they add new revenue streams and suppliers all the time. As such, you will need to be able to build excellent relationships outside of Finance to be able to identify changes before they happen, and develop ‘best in class’ processes. In addition, you’ll business partner closely with both functions to help them deliver the financial information they need to do a brilliant job.
On one typical day, you may be leading the team through the month end close, helping troubleshoot problems and identifying areas for future improvement of processes. The next, you may be working with one of their Edinburgh-based data specialists to help automate processes. Working in a rapidly evolving business like theirs, there is always a new challenge and opportunities to develop your skill set and turn your hand to new things
Key Responsibilities:
• Inputting into the Group month end close and providing commentary and reporting on performance against budget for your respective areas
• Leading on the annual budgeting (P&L, cash flow and balance sheet) and periodic reforecasting process, tracking performance and translating this into forecastable financial impact
• Be the go to source of knowledge and subject matter expert for details of the settlement process with our UK and International suppliers. Hold strong relationships, directly and through your team, with our supply managers
• Input into the Group audit process throughout the year, reviewing and providing relevant audit requests and liaising with auditors on queries/issues
• Work closely with the London head office and Paris finance teams to provide insight and reporting around your areas of responsibility.
Candidate Requirements:
• A qualified ACA/ICAS accountant with +4 years’ PQE, strong technical expertise and broad experience in industry post practice
• Excellent team management skills to support and encourage your direct team
• Broad background in financial management, internal control and management reporting
• Proven track record in developing processes for operational change and enhancing existing processes
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with the ability to quickly re-prioritise and help a team to do the same
• Naturally inquisitive and analytical mindset, able to quickly grasp the fundamentals of complex systems and processes, explaining and presenting them to others is an easy to understand way
• Comfortable working in a high transactional volume, multi-currency and multinational environment
For more information please contact Richard Bruce on 07719 108 237 or click apply below