PROFESSIONAL SERVICES RECRUITMENT - The best appointment you'll make
W&A is working with a growing e-commerce business based in Glasgow to help source a Finance Manager. The business has international reach and global operations and is experiencing year-on-year growth.
This role involves a blend of office and home working, and our client is open to staffing the position on either a part-time or full-time basis.
This role will be responsible for creating, implementing and monitoring the financial strategy. Additionally, the successful candidate will use the eCommerce data, lead all aspects of commercial financial analysis including but not limited to assessing the impact of price changes, advertising strategy changes and product development.
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to join a quickly developing and award-winning business.
Key Responsibilities:
Create and monitor internal processes and controls making suggested improvements
Financial scenario planning linked to sales forecasting
Summarise and present findings to the senior team to agree process and operational changes
Monitor trading and operational performance metrics, identify changes quickly and develop solutions and improvements
Responsible for the day to day financial management of the business and finance function, including but not limited to:
Preparing monthly budgets and monitoring budgets against actual performance
Providing commentary on variances
Providing insightful MI and commentary on the performance of each element of the business
Preparing cash flow forecasts and monitoring to actual
Monitor capital expenditure
Statutory reporting and liaising with external auditors at year end
Preparation of monthly management accounts on a timely basis, including calculation and posting of month end prepayments, accruals, depreciation and reconciliations
Sales and purchase invoice processing and debtors
Authorising and processing payments runs, dealing with supplier queries and ensuring control accounts are maintained
Primary point of contact for the bank
Preparation and submission of Tax and VAT returns, including being the main point of contact for overseas tax collection
Required Skills & Abilities:
Qualified accountant
Supervisory / team management experience
Previous experience of creating and installing finance processes
Proven in creating insightful management and board packs
Numerate with proven financial analysis experience
A desire to upskill in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics tools, with a view to harnessing the data available and creating financial insight thereon
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Take initiative and ownership of tasks with the ability to work with little supervision