Location: Bristol/Hybrid

Permanent

Monday-Friday, 42.5hrs

Overview

An exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced Finance Director to join an established award winning manufacturing business.  You will lead and develop the Finance function of a business that has exciting and ambitious growth plans.  This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive salary.

The Role

This role will be responsible for day-to-day business management of the business, driving commercial results, assessing income streams and costs and delivering on P&L, cashflow and KPI objectives. Along with Senior Management, the Finance Director will contribute fully to the development of company strategy across all areas of the business, challenging assumptions and decision-making as appropriate and providing financial analysis and guidance on all activities, plans, targets and business drivers.

Responsibilities:

• SME experience – full end to end financial experience from HMRC reporting (VAT/C.Tax), payroll, management reporting, financial statements, liaising with auditors and banks
• Developing management information and reporting to enable SLT to take business decisions
• Develop the T&A system to best effect to enable tighter control of labour costs through better planning and reporting
• Review and implement new financial controls over supplier and customer on-boarding
• Implementation of new systems; including replacing basic standalone systems currently used for order processing (sales and purchase), stock control, production, forecasting, and finance with a fully integrated ERP system
• Develop the credit control process
• Recruit and develop finance team to fully support the growing needs of the business and partner/upskill the financial understanding of the business functions
• Develop a business plan, budgets, and forecasts with relevant KPIs that can be tracked against
• Assist with developing business stability as it embarks on the next period of growth through the ongoing introduction of business process controls
• Develop business strategy but be prepared to frequently need to get into the detail
• Due diligence; undertake and lead any financial due diligence workstreams for any future transactions including timely coordination of deliverables/requests and data gathering.
• Support the Businesses drive for sustainability

The Person:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Experience within the manufacturing sector
• Experienced with systems implementation
• Experience with managing debt collection from the public sector and diverse customer base
• Experienced in multi-site manufacturing
• Resilience and tenacity
• Agility to adjust to rapidly changing priorities
• Strong and compelling communicator