We are looking for a dynamic and ambitious individual to take a key leadership role in our global finance team. As Group Financial Controller you will lead all aspects of financial reporting, control and governance, in addition to supporting the CFO on key projects.
Responsibilities
* Managing and developing a team across all aspects of operational finance and financial reporting.
* Working closely with other business functions to build processes that are structured, robust, scalable efficiently and fully understood.
* Accountable for operational finance and treasury KPIs, seeking to drive optimised performance of our working capital, balancing our own needs with those of our customers and suppliers. In addition, you will work closely with the operational business leaders to drive strong performance of operational KPIs, where appropriate.
* Leading the enhancement of our financial control environment.
* Own and develop an accounting policy framework, including business wide education and implementation.
* Acting as the Group’s IFRS expert to provide technical accounting advice across the finance team and business as required.
* Ensuring that external Group financial reporting complies with IFRS and UK Companies Act requirements.
* Manage annual and interim reporting to the City and shareholders, including production of the annual report and UK subsidiary statutory accounts.
* Supporting the CFO’s preparation for board meeting, including preparation of papers for the Audit and Risk Committee.
* Ownership of key external relationships.
* Manage the group external audit process, ensuring a timely, effective and on budget engagement.
* Manage group treasury function and banking matters.
* Maintain the group’s insurance policies.
* Manage tax advisors to maintain UK tax compliance and group planning.
* Maintaining high integrity financial records across all Nexteq group entities, including timely and accurate delivery of month end close process and production of consolidated financial accounts.
* Overseeing timely and accurate payments and filings for payroll, VAT and other company regulatory/statutory filings across the group’s international entities.
* Liaising closely with the Group FP&A function and wider team to ensure management reporting is timely, accurate and informative.
* Proactively evaluating financial information and interrogating, in collaboration with the FP&A team, items which are different to expectations.
* Supporting business teams in delivering strategic growth projects, such as new market verticals, additional geographic markets, new product launches requiring process change, etc.
* Working closely to support the CFO on key strategic projects including M&A, financing and market analysis.
Qualifications and Experience
* The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACA or similar) with proven ability to build processes, possesses a strong attention to detail and a strong drive for delivering improvements.
* Technically strong, IFRS expert.
* Highly proficient in Excel with excellent communication skills (written reports and presentations) and technical expertise in the field.
* Thorough understanding of the requirements of a UK listed business.
* Experience in board reporting and managing information flow to CEO and Directors.
* Comfortable partnering with all areas of the business to drive change and improve processes.
* Well organised and have demonstrable experience of developing structure as new challenges emerge.
* Dynamic, flexible and self-driven individual.
Benefits
* Participate in Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP).
* Nexteq Pension Scheme – 5% company, 5% employee contribution, based on qualifying earnings.
* 28 days holiday plus Bank and other national holidays (8 days).
* Private Medical Cover.
* Death in Service life insurance.
* Electric car salary sacrifice scheme.
* Cycle to Work Scheme.
Nexteq plc is recognised as a market leader in the design and manufacture of market-focused embedded electronic hardware, software and display solutions. The business has a pedigree in the supply of innovative computer platforms and monitor solutions for the gaming and slot machine industry and also a widespread business in the supply of industrial display and HMI products.
Headquartered in the UK and listed on the London Stock Exchange, the business has grown both organically and via acquisition, with plans to accelerate growth both organically and through acquisitions. The business is a global enterprise with offices in 9 countries.
The company majors on the importance of a collaborative, friendly, dynamic, merit-driven culture.
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