Head of Finance in Blackburn
- Head of Finance
- Blackburn
- up to £55,000 Per Year
Job summary
Role: Head of Accounts
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum
Location: Blackburn
Hours: Set Monday to Friday general office hours & 12:30pm Friday finish
Tailor Made are excited to be working with a well-established, growing Training provider in Blackburn. They are seeking an experienced Head of Accounts to join their busy team.
You will ensure and support strong financial governance of the business through the application of robust internal controls and the provision of high-quality financial information, advice and guidance.
As Head of Finance, you will play a critical role in helping build financial understanding across the business. You will need to develop and maintain positive working relationships both internally and externally including colleagues within accounts for sister companies.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Contribute to the effective leadership and management of the Company and to ensure that CEO is equipped with appropriate financial information and the wider SMT is aware of the financial context of the operating environment
- To act as a portfolio holder for finance and to champion finance issues
- Reporting to the Head of Group Accounting and Compliance, to ensure that financial processes and reporting within the Company meet the standards, policies and requirements of the Group and to champion financial process improvement across the Company
- To design financial reporting structures that provide the right granularity of information for high quality business decision-making by all key stakeholders across the company
- Ensure that the Company complies with Group Financial Regulations and associated reporting requirements, including reporting breaches of Financial Regulations and/or Procurement Standing Orders to the Head of Group Accounting and Compliance
- To prepare monthly management accounts to include as a minimum analysis of key variances, forecast projections to the end of the current year, identification of key risks, issues and opportunities and recommendation of actions to address the same
- Implement an annual corporate budgeting process and quarterly forecasting processes that ensure that all stakeholders are engaged with budgets and forecasts and provided with up-to-date projections and clear variance analysis through the monthly management accounts
- Escalation of any financial performance issues to the SMT, Head of Group Accounting and Compliance and the Board as appropriate
- To develop and maintain, in conjunction with the SMT, an integrated 5-year Financial Plan to support the Business Plan aspirations
- To contribute to the Company’s major business decision making process by developing robustly formulated business cases in conjunction with operational managers and to undertake relevant financial analysis
- To deliver the statutory year end accounting and audit processes, ensuring that financial statements that reflect a true and fair view of the position of the Company are prepared in a timely fashion and that all audit requirements are met so that audited statements can be published within statutory timescales
- To maintain forecasts of ESFA Financial Health Scores and provide advice and guidance in relation to ESFA funding rules and any other relevant regulatory considerations
- Have line management responsibility for Central Services Manager and team, including performance reporting to SMT
- To comply with all Company policies and procedures in relation to Safeguarding, Health & Safety, GDPR and Equality and Diversity and ensure adherence at all times
- To undertake any other duties comparable with the role as requested by your Line Manager (or designated alternate)
The ideal candidate will:
About You:
- Fully qualified CCAB, CIMA or equivalent
- At least five years’ post-qualified experience working within a finance environment
- Experience of preparation and presentation of finance reports to non-finance managers
- Experience meeting regular reporting deadlines and preparing financial statements for publication and coordinating external audit activity
- Managerial experience at middle or senior level
- Strong communicator, able to clearly explain complex financial concepts to a non-financial audience and develop confidence in their financial stewardship
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills including the use of appropriate IT tools for relevant tasks
- High level IT skills including the ability to use MS Office software in particular advanced Excel skills
- Knowledge of financial management information systems including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms
- Proactively creates and seizes every opportunity to flourish in education, at work and for life
Company benefits:
- Flexible hybrid working
- Paid Birthday leave
- Company mobile phone and laptop
- Access to company pool cars
- Quarterly CPD Training days
- A full company induction
- Continuous professional development and access to training courses
For more information contact Charlotte Sinar
By submitting your CV to Tailor Made Sourcing Ltd you are consenting to Tailor Made Sourcing Ltd providing you with recruitment services as an agency defined under the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and authorising Tailor Made Sourcing Ltd to work seek on your behalf. You are consenting to your CV being forwarded to clients via electronic mail. You are also giving your consent to your personal data being included on a computerised database and its use in order to secure employment.
Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive per vacancy, we are unable to respond to every candidate personally and so if you have not heard back from us within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
By submitting your CV to Tailor Made Sourcing Ltd you are consenting to Tailor Made Sourcing Ltd providing you with recruitment services as an agency defined under the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and authorising Tailor Made Sourcing Ltd to seek work on your behalf. You are consenting to your CV being forwarded to clients via electronic mail. You are also giving your consent to your personal data being included on a computerized database and its use in order to secure employment.
Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive per vacancy, we are unable to respond to every candidate personally and so if you have not heard back from us within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
If this role is of interest contact Charlotte Sinar
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