Reporting to the Finance Director the role holder’s key responsibility is ensuring that the business receives timely and accurate financial information to support prudent decision making

Primary duties and responsibilities

• Timely and accurate preparation of annual budgets
• Continuous monitoring of budgets, identification of deviations and making timely recommendations for corrective actions.
• Enforcing prudent financial discipline across the business by adhering to the set budgets.
• Preparation of accurate monthly financial reports to very strict deadlines.
• Develop and monitor product margins and ensure that they are reported upon in a timely manner for corrective actions.
• Ensure that product prices are accurately developed, maintained and updated in a timely manner.
• Maintain accurate Bill of Materials BOMs and regularly review them as required.
• Regular review of business operations to ensure continuous improvement and value creation.
• Maintain accurate inventory records, costings and reporting.
• Ensure that inventory counts are regularly and correctly done and that differences are identified and corrective actions implemented in a timely manner.
• Provide information needed for effective decision making in the preparation of sales and marketing promotions and activities
• Ensure that product demand forecasts are prepared in a timely and accurate manner.
• Supervision of staff and assigned projects.
• Ensure that audit schedules are correctly prepared and provided in a timely manner.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or equivalent. Relevant master’s degree qualification is an additional advantage
• Qualified Accountant – CPA (K) or other UK equivalent qualification.
• Over ten years post qualification experience in a busy Finance department with over 5 years supervising a team.
• Over 5 years experience in financial reporting from trial balance to financial statement
• Over 4 years experience in a busy manufacturing firm handling cost analysis.
• In-depth knowledge and experience using ERP systems – SAGE X3 is an added advantage.
•  Advanced knowledge and use of Excel for data modelling and analysis is a definite advantage
• Good communication and presentation skills