Position; Financial Controller

Location; Oxford

Salary; £35,000 - £40,000 per annum

Planet Recruitment are proud to be working with our well-established client in the Oxford area who are seeking a Financial Controller. The Financial Controller role is a full-time position to cover the management of the finance operations function of the business, purchase ledger, sales ledger and customer experience

The successful candidate will understand processes, have an eye for implementing and refining process, managing key stakeholders and organising their team. You will be customer focused team player with great attention to detail and have strong systems skills.

Main responsibilities;

• Responsible for the finance operation function of the business purchase ledger, sales ledger and customer experience
• Supervising a team of three in the finance team.
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
• Suggest improvements to customer experience and business system efficiencies
• Ensure the integrity of all accounting data to enable automation of payruns and debt collection
• Responsible for sign-off of accountancy processing for VFD production of management accounts
• Own the cash collection target and ensure our systems are up to date to provide accurate forecasts
• Management of purchase order accruals
• Feedback on quality of input from operations teams to ensure ongoing accuracy and efficiency of our accounting

Required / Qualifications;

• Previous experience within a financial controller business (ideally 3+ years experience)
• Demonstrate leadership skills when managing a small team
• Professional and approachable at all items
• Ideally previous accounting qualifications
• Ability to build relationships with colleagues, senior business contracts and high net worth individuals

Commutable locations;

Oxford, Cowley, Headington, Botley, Abingdon, Didcot, Wantage, Harwell

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