Our Company:
M & A Doocey is a multi-disciplined, civil engineering and utility contractor operating nationally, providing a range of utility and civil engineering services including multi-utilities. Based in Tipton and established for more than 40 years, we are framework partners with several major utilities, driven by a commitment to maintaining and developing solid client relationships and we continue to diversify and reinforce our reputation for delivering quality you can build on.
Summary:
As the Finance Manager you will be working at a senior level of Doocey Group facilitating making long-term financial decisions regarding the company’s future including robust and accurate cashflows, regular financial forecasting, monthly Management Accounts, weekly cashflows for all companies and creating an annual company budget whilst ensuring the financial health and stability of the Group.
The Finance Manager is an integral part of the Business, operating as a trusted business partner to the Directors and other members of the senior management team, you will play a key role to help drive improvement in financial performance. This role holds responsibility for accurate and robust Management Accounts, Annual Budget, regular financial forecasts and cashflows for Doocey Group to both internal and external stakeholders; including financial planning and analysis, business partnering and internal audit ensuring robust financial controls.
Key Objectives:
Acting as a key business partner and advisor on strategy to the Directors as part of the senior management team.
Ensure timely and accurate completion of monthly management accounts for companies within your remit for submission to monthly board meetings and Company specific finance meetings.
Continuous development of the finance systems, training, processes and reporting
Ensure tight financial controls and governance are maintained in the finance function and across the Group
Develop financial forecasts/analysis/plans aligned to support the overall Group strategic direction and growth agenda of the business.
Specific Responsibilities/Tasks:
Management Accounts
* Ownership and Accurate Preparation of Full Management Accounts for all companies within remit.
* Full Balance Sheet reconciliation owning all balances
* Establish and ensure integrity of consistent key accounting policies for the group
* Record, maintain and audit consistent processes and procedures within the finance team for all companies.
* Internal audit of accounting policies, processes and procedures
* Preparation of regular forecasting for all companies within remit
* Produce Annual Budget for all companies within remit
* Detailed variance analysis on Management Accounts
* Maintain detailed P&L Analysis
* Regular management reporting for various Group + Non-Group Companies
* Establish and lead regular Management Accounts meetings with key stakeholders
* Establish and report key KPIs
* Journal entries, accruals, prepayments, recharges and intercompany transactions
* Maintain Fixed Asset Register and depreciation calculations
* Monthly cost and variance monitoring
* Lead on the annual audit for all companies within remit.
* Other miscellaneous tasks within skillset
Group Treasury
* Produce and own robust and accurate cashflows for companies withing remit
* Consolidate Group and non-Group Cashflows ensuring good test and challenge to the numbers
* Ensure all group cash is making the best interest as possible
* Ensure that Mortgages for properties are achieving the best rates at the right times
* Establish a Group Treasury Policy with FD
* Establish and maintain a Land Delivery Report for House Building Company with the Commercial team and FD to aid strategic decisions on Company Growth
* Work with key people in the business maintaining lease schedules for all group owned properties and all leased properties in the group.
Qualifications & Training:
Qualified Accountant ACA, ACCA or CIMA or QBE with at least 5 years post qualified experience if qualified
Accountancy experience in a commercial profit-making entrepreneurial business
Technical Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 5 years experience of a construction, house building and/or contracting environment
Good understanding of all HMRC compliance.
Proven experience of growing a business from a £45 million turnover and increasing the profitability
Understanding of the rigorous working in an owner managed business
Strong technical accounting knowledge
Advanced Excel ability
Knowledge of process improvement techniques
Excellent organisational skills and ability to multi-task
The ability to be proactive, work on own initiative to build new processes, implement controls and
Improvements
Attention to detail, accuracy and excellent presentation skills
Copes well within a changing environment
Desire to understand the wider business
Able to produce and provide expert advice
Strong commercial awareness