Finance Supervisor

Our Client manufactures and distributes chemicals. They currently have a vacancy for a Finance Supervisor. This position is predominantly office based in Ascot. It is a part-time permanent role for 20 - 25 Hours per week; preferably four - five hours per day Monday to Friday or five - six hours per day over four days.

Job Purpose

• The main function of the Finance Supervisor is to be the connection between our businesses and our outsourced accountancy, ensuring that their work is accurate and that nothing is missed.
• Working across three SME trading companies, you need to be very detail orientated, self-motivated and be able to manage your own workflow.

Key Responsibilities

• Credit control for three companies, including advising Customer Services & Sales on adhoc credit issues
• Daily check of bank accounts and the application of payments to accounts
• Ensure that the outsourced accountancy processes payments in a timely and accurate fashion.
• Check the monthly management accounts, including divisional split and variances, ensuring that intercompany cross-charges have been correctly applied and any discrepancies in margin are investigated
• Review of payment runs following set up by the outsourced accountancy, including appropriate authorisations, and reviewing with the Director as required prior to approval
• Where necessary, assist in annual statutory audit
• Supervision of cashflow transfers between accounts (Sterling, Euro and Dollar)
• Maintenance of employee data for payroll and pension purposes and checking monthly payroll for three companies for review with the Director
• Checking monthly pension contributions for three schemes
• Check any corporation tax computations, including R&D tax credit calculations
• Check preparation of draft VAT returns
• Ensure that queries from customers and other departments are answered quickly
• Assist in the development of Finance systems and processes where necessary

Qualifications and Experience

• Some solid experience in an accounting position
• Degree standard education, qualified or part-way through professional accounting qualification (ACCA/CIMA)
• As part of a set of small busy companies, it is essential that the successful candidate is a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and able to work to deadlines
• Hardworking, conscientious and inquisitive with excellent attention to detail and ability to prioritise tasks according to business requirements.
• As an external face of Finance, ability to deal confidently with both internal and external queries face-to-face, over the phone and by email
• Able to work with multiple currencies and across multiple companies
• Excellent IT skills including experience of accounting systems and intermediate to advanced Excel skills
• Experience working across multiple business units or cost centres (Desirable)
• Experience using Business Central (Desirable) and Microsoft Excel (Essential).
• Be highly organised with an ability to multi-task
• Be a lively, engaging person who enjoys working as part of a close-knit team

In return our Client is offering a basic salary of £40,000 - £45,000 per annum pro-rata plus benefits. Please e-mail your C.V to Lorraine Roger, Director at Atom Recruitment Ltd.