Finance Manager at ApolloGrid Limited, Croydon, Greater London

### About Us
ApolloGrid is a fast-growing UK residential solar, battery storage and heat pump company, with showrooms in Croydon, Kingston, Barnet, Birmingham and Nottingham, and our national distribution warehouse in Chessington. 

### Key Responsibilities
Core finance:

- Own monthly management accounts, cash flow forecasting and board reporting
- Manage VAT (MTD), corporation tax, payroll liaison and year-end statutory accounts with external accountants
- Build financial controls and processes fit for a multi-site, project-based business
- Support pricing decisions and margin analysis across product lines (PV panels, inverters, battery storage, heat pumps)
- Manage project-level job costing for installation contracts
Inventory & working capital project (first 6 months priority):

- Lead a full stock audit and reconciliation of the Chessington warehouse
- Establish inventory valuation, cycle-count and stock-control procedures
- Identify slow-moving and obsolete stock; recommend provisioning and clearance strategy in coordination with operations team.
- Build stock-turn and working-capital KPIs to prevent recurrence
### Requirements
- ACCA qualified (or ACA/CIMA) — preferrable

-Mandarin speaking is essential
- 3+ years post-qualification experience, ideally in a product/trading, distribution, construction or renewable energy business
- Hands-on experience with inventory accounting and stock-system reconciliation
- Strong Excel and accounting software skills (Xero/QuickBooks/Sage)
- Able to work on-site with warehouse and operations teams
- Right to work in the UK
### Desirable
- Experience in a business scaling through rapid growth
- Mandarin Chinese an advantage (group reporting to parent company)
### Benefits
- Free parking, staff discount on home energy products

- Company pension