Job Description

This exciting, fast paced, highly entrepreneurial and rapidly growing British digital media success story has seen its worldwide revenues double over the last 2 years. The next 2 years look equally positive and the business is scheduled for further growth locally and across international markets, specifically in the US.

The role includes:

• Deliver a transparent and rigorous financial control function that can facilitate the continued scaling up of the business, ensuring a 'no surprises' reporting environment
• Identify areas for improvement across the existing function and execute the appropriate enhancements
• Deliver management reporting packs fit for Board and external shareholder consumption
• Drive improvements across transactional accounting
• Lead and coach a small team
• Implement an efficient reporting system that captures all critical financial data to report operational and financial KPIs
• Partner commercial stakeholders, working closely to deliver optimum business performance
• Coordination of statutory reporting, audit and tax submissions
• Rapidly build cross-functional relationships, quickly building trust and credibility across the business and external advisors where appropriate
• Deliver a multi-territory consolidation
• Own finance systems management and improvements (Xero)
• Manage and forecast cash flow
• Technical accounting support on corporate growth activity
• Engage with, and influence business leaders to ensure clear and transparent communication and financial understanding across the senior leadership team

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• In-depth technical accounting knowledge, ideally qualified as a Chartered accountant
• Hands-on experience as a Financial Controller or similar remit
• Demonstrable experience of leading and coaching individuals
• Impressive communication skills and high levels of emotional intelligence
• Knowledge of delivering an international consolidation process
• Evidence of executing value-add process and controls improvements whilst working within a SME
• Previous exposure to Xero would be an advantage
• Comfortable in a hands-on, rapid scale up environment where you will own the continued automation and improving of the financial control and reporting environment