Financial Controller

We are seeking an experienced Financial Controller to join a dynamic and progressive team within the automotive industry.

Responsibilities

• Review all financial information, taking time to analyse numbers.
• Identify drivers of certain transactions and dependencies of transactions on other numbers within a set of financial information.
• Identify areas of over and under spend and translate this data into presentable figures for senior management to understand.
• Review key financial indicators on a day-to-day basis based on information recorded and produced by the various finance teams at each location within the group.
• Ensure the accurate recording of financial information, accurate reporting from Evolve, and accurate stock information is provided to all levels of management.
• Review deal sheets to ensure accuracy and provide comments and feedback on areas for improvement in terms of creating more GP for the business.
• Create templates for monitoring monthly performance of each business unit within the group against budgets and forecasts.
• Ensure all accruals, provisions, and cost of sales are accurately recorded for month-end reporting.
• Analyse and report on month-end balance sheet and income statement performance for each department within the group.
• In collaboration with each department's sales team and the executive team, develop realistic budgets that push the business to grow.
• Use these budgets to monitor performance, identify variances, and report on the reasons behind them, suggesting improvements to get back to budget.
• Update budgets every quarter to ensure the most realistic full-year views are available for all financial information.
• In conjunction with the financial director, identify areas for cost-saving, cost optimization, and implement processes to achieve set outcomes within the cost structure.

Qualifications

CA (SA) will be advantageous.

Experience / Criteria

• Must have auditing firm article experience.
• Proven experience in dealing with different levels of staff within an organization.
• Proven experience in dealing with complex accounting topics.
• Proven experience in analysing financial information.
• Proven experience in forecasting and budgeting.
• Must be a problem solver and able to work independently to obtain the correct information needed for decision making.

A Consultant will be in touch if you are shortlisted for the position. Please consider your application unsuccessful should you not have been contacted within 2 weeks. We will keep your CV on our database and contact you should you match the criteria of any other vacancies.