Description
Title: Head of Financial Accounting
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 + Car Allowance + Bonus + Pension
Type: Permanent
Rutherford Cross are delighted to be working with an Edinburgh headquartered UK business, in order to recruit a qualified finance professional for what is a key hire. The Head of Financial Accounting will lead the financial accounting and transactional teams, in addition to producing all statutory information for investors, shareholders, analysts, and other key stakeholders.
This role represents an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and committed finance professional as the company has displayed strong recent revenue growth. Moreover, it exposes the successful individual to a high performing business, which is scaling up its operations nationally as it moves to the next stage of its development.
Key areas of focus will include:
- Leading the production of the year-end consolidation and preparation of consolidated statutory accounts under IFRS
- Facilitating the smooth and timely completion of interim and annual audits including planning and liaison with the auditors
- Leading the conversion from UK GAAP to IFRS for all subsidiary companies
- Preparation of (consolidated) monthly management accounts for the headquarters division
- Production of annual and half year statutory financial information for investor and analyst presentations and separately, on an ad hoc basis for trading statements
- Oversee financial transaction processing and reconciliations and ensuring that robust controls are in operation
- Production and reconciling of weekly cash reports
- Ensure compliance with HMRC deadlines and other regulatory requirements
- Review tax computations for all companies prepared by the external tax advisors
- Ensure compliance with accounting timetable and ensure deadlines are met
- Ensure compliance with procedures and internal controls including preparing the business for significant expansion
- Setting and monitoring of key performance indicators for the team and ensuring the team output is of a high quality
- Training and development of individuals, including identifying and supporting ongoing development as well as setting objectives and carrying out annual PDRs
- Ability to proactively interact and work with a range of finance and non-finance stakeholders to resolve issues and ensure reporting deadlines are met
Applications are invited from qualified finance professionals with experience of leading high performing teams. Current IFRS experience and key skills in consolidated statutory reporting are also essential requirements.
To apply, please contact our advisor Billy McCarthy at Rutherford Cross.