Financial Controller in Guildford, Surrey

An international specialist engineering business is looking for an experienced Financial Controller to support their CFO. This will be a hands-on role with a broad range of responsibilities including management of financial reporting and accounting operations.

More specifically, the role will cover:

• Prepare monthly management accounts and supporting schedules for review by the CFO on review and finalisation
• Take ownership of assigned areas of the month-end and year-end close
• Prepare and post month-end journals, including accruals, prepayments and depreciation.
• Prepare and reconcile balance sheet accounts
• Oversee the integrity and timeliness of ledger transactions, managing a small team 
• Control of month end journal posting including WIP, prepayments, accruals etc
• Maintain the Fixed Asset Register
• Support the annual budgeting and forecasting process including P&L and variance analysis
• Support the year-end close and preparation of supporting schedules for external audit requirements

We are looking for a talented, qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) who has a strong technical accounting background who can take ownership of a small finance operations team. An advanced user of Microsoft Excel is essential as this is used extensively. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail are important personal competencies.  You must be a confident, articulate communicator to interact across multiple countries and be willing to be hands on when required. Hybrid working is available.