Head of Finance

​Rewards and Benefits on Offer

• Working for a highly successful and highly regarded North-East business, with a very strong and proud heritage in the region.

• A business with a superb senior team and a fantastic team-based company culture.

• You will be provided with a varied and highly interesting role.

• Pension scheme in place.

• 30 days annual leave.

• Healthcare package

• Company car.

• An excellent discretionary bonus scheme.

The Company you will be working for;

Our client is a true North-East success story within the regional industrial sectors.

The company is a privately-owned business with a proud heritage of delivering high value projects throughout the North East and the UK. The company operates from a well-resourced Head Office facility located towards the western side of Northumberland with significant investment in new business systems, projects and technology, with a highly skilled workforce aiming to provide their customers with the best service available on the market. The company is now entering a new and exciting phase of development.

They are now looking to recruit a Head of Finance to support the business on a permanent basis. You will be joining a great North East people focused organisation with a strong history, a fantastic leadership team who have a clear forward-thinking vision, and the role offers a secure positive future.

The Job You’ll be Doing;

• Ensuring debtors and Creditors ledgers remain in balance at the end of each month

• Reviewing Aged Debt

• Wages Controls Balance to payrolls

• Review & submit PAYE monthly to revenue

• Review weekly/monthly BACS submissions prior to payment

• Work in progress & prepaid income is updated at each month end

• Ensuring cashbooks are posted to system

• Introductions of financial fixed assets

• Export daily statements into excel & file for daily reconciliation

• Authorise BACS files from creditors ledger for payment

• Authorise for additional payment for submission.

• Preparing monthly management accounts for the group including balance sheets, profit & loss accounts, consolidated balance sheet, abbreviated profit & loss reports and summaries of aged debt & creditors

• Reporting to board of directors & submission to bank as required within timescales

• Review Management accounts to date and analysis of balance sheet accounts to ensure no mis posting within the period

• Review 12 months management accounts & present in format as required by auditors. Make adjustments as required in readiness for fieldwork by auditors.

• Deal with queries raised during audit, present information & explanation as required work towards conclusion.

• Prepare consolidated balance sheet & profit & loss account to exclude intercompany transactions & present to auditors as final part of the audit

• Preparation of quarterly VAT returns for the Group

• Preparation of quarterly Aggregate Levy Return

• Preparation of quarterly Land Fill Tax Return

• Submission of returns to Companies House

• Credit checking for new account enquiries

• Completion of monthly construction & other office of national statistics returns

• Preparation of Financial reports as required by the board of directors

• Completion of Directors Tax returns

About You;

• Qualified to CIMA / ACCA or ACA level 

• Previous head of finance/finance manager experience, where you have managed a finance team.

• You will naturally be a strong communicator, with an inclusive and engaging approach to working with various teams in a business.

• You will be looking for the right career move, where you can really help the team, support the business and really make a positive difference.

• Ability to challenge processes and look for improvements

• Experience of working to tight deadlines