Financial Controller

Sewell Wallis is looking for a financial controller for a well-known FMCG organisation based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. This role will be a key part of the senior leadership team and will work closely with the site manager. Your main responsibilities will involve strengthening financial controls, developing KPI's to increase efficient working.

This Financial Controller role will suit a qualified accountant who is technically very strong and able to communicate with the whole business, from the shop floor to the board.

What will you be doing?

• Be a key member of the senior leadership team, helping to develop direct reports and shop floor teams
• Drive site objectives and implement key KPI's to help achieve targets
• Provide key analysis on KPI's to help prioritise improvement projects and reduce factory wastage
• Lead planning, budgeting and forecasting for the site and report to the board
• Business partner across multiple sites
• Implement new ERP system

What skills are we looking for?

• Fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or CA) with strong technical knowledge and commercial awareness.
• Strong FMCG or manufacturing experience (understanding inventory processes, variance analysis and ability to translate to wider teams).
• Experience leading planning and managing complex budgets.
• ERP system implementation and integrating systems.
• A strong, capable leader who has a track record a mentoring across all levels.
• Audit experience is advantageous.

What's on offer?

• Basic salary from 75,000- 85,000
• Car allowance
• Annual bonus
• Private healthcare

Please note this role will require the successful candidate to be on site 5 days a week.

Apply below, or for more information, contact Jenny.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.