Financial Controller

Opportunity:

We are looking for a analytical individual to join a fast-paced finance team based in Rochester*. As a financial controller, you will assist the Finance Director with creating and maintaining bugets, management reporting and financial accounting. In addition, you will spend a considerable amount of time working closely with the operational team, analysing our thriving business, supporting pricing and profitability calculations and visualising our KPI.  The role combines commercial decision-making and more traditional financial controlling (digging into costs, explaining actual-vs-budget variances etc.) in roughly equal measure.

As we are about to implement a state of the art, E2E business system, there is opportunity to be creative by shaping data outputs and defining analyses. va-Q-tec uses Business Central, CRM, Sharepoint and the business system is also built on a Microsoft architecture.

Company-wide Responsibilities:

• Maintain standards in line with the requirements of the role and any va-Q-tec Ltd policies and procedures in place.
• Undertake any other duties and responsibilities as may be determined from time to time.
• Work any additional hours as the requirements of the job demand, subject to prior negotiation.
• Comply with equal opportunities legislation and be pro-active in challenging prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping.
• Adhere to procedures relating to the proper use and care of equipment and materials for which the role has responsibility. 

Required Experience:

• Proven experience as a Controller, Financial or Data Analyst, Finance Manager or similar.
• Analysis of large data sets, cleansing/sorting data for meaningful analysis.

Essential Skills:

• Sound grounding in financial accounting (both P&L and Balance Sheet) and with it the ability to interpret financial information.
• Thorough understanding of the most common business KPI.
• Strong Excel skills mandatory (incl. pivot tables, lookups, indexmatch, graphs), Power-BI ex-perience advantageous, as would be typical data analyst skills in order to organize and trans-form information into comprehensible structures.
• Ability to advise co-workers and stakeholders of any financial changes affecting the business. 
• Experience in conducting reviews and evaluation of cost-reduction opportunities.
• Distill analysis into concrete findings and formulate recommended actions in plain language.
• Advanced presentation skills and ability to produce accurate financial reports to deadlines.
• Initiative to follow up on open issues independently and with tenacity.

Hours: 35-40 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Salary: £40,000.00+ depending on experience.

Holiday: 25 days' holiday, in addition to bank/public holidays.