ROLE PURPOSE

As a member of the Regional Finance Team and local management team, the Finance Manager provides essential commercial and finance support to the local management teams to facilitate the achievement of business goals within budgeted resource levels and to enhance local decision making through the proactive provision of financial analysis and interpretation whilst also supporting the Orders to Cash function in a busy and demanding environment.

There has been a period of change following growth, and with an up-coming implementation of a new ERP, this role will put in people and processes that align to global ways of working, statutory requirements and local commercial decision making.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and develop staff to maintain high levels of morale, motivation and productivity as a customer service mindset is at the forefront

• Responsible for the day-to-day financial operations within the company, such as invoicing, payments and other transactions

• Ensure all statutory audits, accounting and taxation is up to date, including all balance sheets clearly reconciled every month and any differences resolved

• Manage the orders to cash function through working with the Invoicing Executives, to provide strategic direction, manage customer credit limits, ensure that the sales contract database is kept up to date and product & service invoicing is done in a timely manner

• Lead month end; Review and approve monthly journal entries, review account reconciliations, prepare and review monthly reporting packs, KPI’s, cashflow and ad-hoc financial information

• Ensure compliance with internal control systems and statutory financial regulations

• Partner with the operations team to close out any outstanding internal audit actions

• Analyse excess and obsolete/aging inventory and take appropriate action for optimizing inventory

• Monitor revenue and overheads and, where appropriate, propose corrective action in relation to deviations against budget

• Review any ad-hoc pricing queries, challenging the sales team to maintain margins and profitability, and if necessary get sign off through bid reviews

• Evaluate new market introductions, analyse product margins, ROI and the impact of commercial discussions and pricing negotiations

• Monitor and manage employee incentive schemes (including sales commission, bonus and profit share)

• Lead the preparation of strategic plans, the annual budget, monthly and quarterly financial forecasts, helping to drive forecast accuracy

• Within a couple of years, be the finance lead for the global implementation of Oracle within the local country, and lead the transformation of the finance team to global ways of working

• Champion the ERP system, to ensure it is utilised to its full potential, in order to continually improve processes and efficiency with the Finance function and the wider business

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Recognised accounting qualification (3+ years PQE)
• Able to demonstrate strong compliance and statutory technical skills
• Able to demonstrate full understanding of all aspects of financial management, financial forecasting, budgeting and reporting
• Strong experience of team development and change management
• High level of computer literacy; MS Office; specifically, Excel 

REQUIRED SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• JD Edward system experience would be desirable
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver results
• High attention to detail and the ability to work accurately
• Good communication skills in English (written and spoken) and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and data presentation skills
• Can demonstrate commercial acumen
• Team player, relationship building approach and experience working as a 'business partner'