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Interim Accounting Services Manager £700 p.d

Interim Accounting Services Manager £700 p.d

  • Location

    Royston

  • Sector:

    Finance

  • Job type:

    Contract

  • Salary:

    £600 - £700 per day

  • Contact:

    Jamie Mackinlay

  • Contact email:

    jamie.mackinlay@1st-executive.com

  • Salary high:

    700

  • Salary low:

    600

  • Job ref:

    JM290_1685519203

  • Published:

    10 months ago

  • Duration:

    12 months

  • Expiry date:

    2023-06-30

  • Startdate:

    ASAP

  • Consultant:

    ConsultantDrop

One of the worlds largest sustainable technology providers has an urgent requirement for an Interim Accounting Services Manager.

This is an interim 12-month contract with remote working 1-day per week in Royston offices offering up to £700 p.d inside IR35.

Job purpose:

The role reports to the Plant Finance Manager and leads the transactional processing finance team in plant and is ultimately responsible for an accurate and compliant trial balance at the plant.

Works closely with the plant Financial Accountant and Internal Compliance & Controls Lead to ensure the appropriate control environment is operational on site and the plant Insights & Decision Support Team to ensure accurate monthly reporting is submitted to Group.

A key element of the role will involve identifying the causes of delays and issues and introduce process and data improvements.

Principal accountabilities:

  • Lead the plant transactional activities ensuring an effective control environment, timely close & reporting.
  • Accountability for producing an accurate and complete trial balances and tax pack for the Plant covering the transactional processes and service towers of accounts payable; accounts receivable, transactional treasury and tax; metal and general ledger accounting.
  • Ensure the plant transactional finance teams deliver high quality services to agreed performance and cost targets, across these transactional finance processes.
  • Work closely with other Plant Accounting Services Managers to agree and establish plant SLAs, operational finance KPIs, and service management performance expectations.
  • Accountable for overall cash collections and consults with Plant Finance Manager and Credit Risk Manager on collection issues and bad debts.
  • Maintain a robust internal control environment for all transaction processes managed in plants, with guidance from the plant compliance and controls lead.
  • Day to day management, training, support & development of the Transactional Processing Team.
  • Establishing supplier-customer relationships with Plant Finance Manager; Compliance & Controlling team and the Insights & Decision Support Team.

Experience:

  • University degree qualification
  • BCom Financial management, CA(SA) or CIMA would be an advantage
  • Significant and substantial experience embedding compliance to accounting policies and controls in a global organisation
  • Significant and substantial experience within Finance function preferably in the manufacturing environment
  • Significant experience in leading Finance Shared Services teams within a corporate environment.
  • Experience of chemicals / automotive industry

This is an urgent requirement so if it is of interest, please apply ASAP or contact Jamie.mackinlay@1st-executive.com