Our Finance teams, don’t just process numbers, it’s about collecting vital information which informs decisions and drives our business. As such, it’s at the heart of our commerciality.
We hold Finance in high regard as a pivotal driver in our continued success and performance, so if you enjoy working in a front-line, operational function where your work is highly valued and impacts visibly on our people and business, this could be your kind of place.
Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, you will ensure Financial reporting is maintained to a consistently high standard across the region, managing core delivery of the function, ensuring that the Finance activities are co-ordinated to reflect best practice and have focused objectives.
You will be expected to:
- Act as a commercial business partner to the Regional Managing Director, supporting them in all aspects of the management and leadership of the Region, also acting as a deputy as required
- To operate through the Divisional Finance Directors who will recognise a reporting line to the role and will work operationally with the role on a day to day basis
- Responsible for evaluating the performance of the Divisional Finance Directors, supporting their professional development and participate in their recruitment, assessment, reward, retention and development
- To act as a ‘sounding board’ and provide advice to the Divisional Finance Directors
- Responsible with the Regional team for developing the business strategy to include; business planning, identification of strategic opportunities to grow the business, reviewing and if appropriate executing inorganic growth opportunities, process and profit improvement
- To implement an effective planning and budgeting process – providing an effective challenge to the region’s strategy and plans
- Monitor business performance, reporting against clear KPI’s and implement with the Regional Managing Director, strategies to bring the region towards the budget/plan
- Identify and implement effective plans and activities to enhance profitable growth
- Implement a clear control framework and ongoing detailed review of divisional control compliance
- Achieve optimum results, based on the ability to identify potential, analyse risk and seize the correct opportunities to add value to the business
- To drill down into the business, identifying problems or weaknesses, to ‘trouble shoot’ and support Divisions in making improvements
- Work closely with the Group treasurer and Group Internal Audit
- To promote and act in accordance with all Group values, systems, policies and procedures and to ensure strict compliance throughout the Region