Currently partnering a leading privately-owned contract manufacturer of components who have been through a recent growth phase and looking to bolster their finance team with the appointment of an Interim Financial Controller. The role is an interim position for a period of 6-9 months, being the overall number 1 in finance. Duties include but not exclusive to the below: - Preparation of subsidiary operating and consolidated group accounts on a monthly basis, for the Group. - - Lead the timely preparation of management accounting for UK & International entities, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and profitability reporting. - Responsible for developing sales forecasts, budgets and report commercial metrics to assess business performance. - Mentor and develop a high performing finance team, building a highly motivated, cross functional team able to proactively support business growth. - Identify staff training, coaching and developmental requirements in addition to leading on recruitment and retention projects. - Undertake a key role in business partnering with Key Stakeholders across sales, marketing and finance to support business objectives and to evaluate the impact and ROI from commercial, strategic and promotional campaigns. - Review financial procedures ensuring the integrity of financial data, developing financial controls and compliance. Cash management and cash-flow forecasting projects The person: - Qualified accountant with experience in a manufacturing, SME or PE backed business. - Ideal candidate will be familiar with invoice discounting facilities and cash management around that - drawdowns, supplier payment scheduling, all within banking covenants. - Nice to have will be an understanding how to restrict labour (temps) in line with forecast and run-rate output (dispatches), and be fluent in integrated financial modelling. - A familiarity with Power BI would also be a bonus. - Comfortable with Xero or Sage accounting packages.