- Essential – Financial Services industry experience
- £90,000 – £110,000 + package (incl. bonus, pension etc.)
- London
Pear Talent is representing a Financial Services business who have an excellent opportunity for a Financial Controller to lead an operational finance team of x15. Working closely with the Finance Director, you’ll manage all aspects of daily finance operations (financial control, treasury, banking etc.) whilst developing and mentoring the team during a business-wide finance change programme, including a new general ledger implementation.
Key accountabilities:
- Lead the Finance Operations team, supporting the FD and liaising with other stakeholders across the business.
- Manage, lead and develop a team of x15 staff of varying levels of experience.
- Own all invoice and payment processes, ensuring timely payments and appropriate control.
- Oversee the daily cash management and oversight of all bank accounts (daily transactions, cash movements), ensuring adequate cash reserves and funding.
- Responsible for expense management including monthly expense reporting, updating the expense allocation methodology for Finance and reserving, etc.
- Business partnering with other areas of business such as IT, Compliance, Risk and Actuarial.
- Supervise balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring that any discrepancies are investigated and corrected.
- Responsible for overseeing accounts payable and invoicing and the close of AP/AR at month end.
- Continuously develop and improve processes and drive efficiencies within Finance Operations.
- Support Finance projects and any ad-hoc requests for reporting and analysis.
Required experience:
- Experienced qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA or equivalent)
- Finance Operations experience in Financial Services
- Previous experience managing and developing teams
- Familiarity with managing and improving end-to-end financial processes and controls
- Ability to use a range of IT packages and accounting systems
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