Director of Finance, Influencer

• Qualified CIMA, ACCA or ACA c. 4 years post qualified experience
• Minimum 3 years Financial reporting experience within commerce
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in fast paced business environment with international subsidiaries, working to tight deadlines
• Experience in consolidating accounts or ability to demonstrate the skill
• Multi-currency exposure
• Advanced Excel skills
• Analytical thinking – ability to manage, simplify, interpret and analyse large amount of data
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Be able to adapt and keep pace with a fast-moving environment that changes and flexes to meet business needs

Desirable

• Reporting of the role: This role reports to the CFO
• As the Director, Finance you will be a qualified Accountant with strong Management and Financial Accounting skills, along with finance systems skills, advance excel skills with a great ability to analyse, manipulate and interpret data
• Experience within a fast-paced, high growth environment and multi country subsidiaries is essential
• With a high degree of flexibility to get involved and help to get things done
• You will be working across the Senior Teams of the business, supporting various financial and non-financial stakeholders with key decision making
• This role will be instrumental in driving global business support due to the increased global activity driven by the growth of the business
• This role can have a direct impact on driving business success and cash management
• In the first few months, you would have:
• Built strong relationships with Key Senior personnel across the global business, including our external back office support teams
• Reviewed and revised the roles and responsibilities of your Team for optimum financial operations
• Be leading our reporting (and ideas for improvement)
• Have a full understanding of our requirements arounds cash repatriation and the most cost-effective way to achieve this
• Embedded yourself in the broader Finance and Business Affairs Team and feel a part of Influencer
• Leadership of the Financial Reporting Team
• Full ownership of preparing and publishing monthly financial statements for management accounts and revenue reporting (P&L, balance sheet and statutory cash flow analysis with commentary). Currently five legal entities with different operating currencies, along with full ownership of consolidation
• Manage all accounting operations including Billing, AR, AP, Treasury, Cost Accounting and Revenue Recognition. Work with the People Team to support on local and international payroll checking
• Cash focused, responsible for working capital management both the immediate term 13 week cash flow and the needs across the full year and rolling 12 months. Including Tax efficient repatriation of cash
• Manage compliance of government/statutory reporting requirements and tax filing across our territories with the use of advisors. Covering Corporation Tax, Transfer pricing, Withholding tax and VAT
• Research technical accounting issues for compliance with the assistance of advisors when required
• Business partnering with budget holders on a regular basis, ensuring your Team support budget holders with cost management (spend to date) and reforecasting against the annual budget
• Work closely with the Director, FP&A in the production of the annual budget and 3 year plan
• Drive improvements and efficiencies in financial processes, improving efficiency and reduce preparation time
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls across the business
• Ownership of Annual Statutory Reporting, taking the Audit lead, ensure the preparation of audit files and associated schedules
• Constant improvement mindset, identifying areas of weakness and suggest improvements
• Additional finance duties as necessary