Head of Finance (Financial Controller)

Job Description

Castle Employment Group are working in partnership with a growing Yorkshire manufacturing business to recruit a Financial Controller for a newly created role within their leadership team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a highly successful down-to-earth business with ambitious growth plans scaling from 30m turnover towards 80m over the next five years.

The role offers genuine progression towards a future Finance Director position and would suit a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys operational involvement improving processes and working closely with leadership teams.

This is not a corporate environment. The successful individual will need to be comfortable operating within a fast-moving manufacturing setting building relationships across operations and contributing commercially to business decisions.

Key responsibilities include:

Production and improvement of management accounts

Advanced Excel analysis and reporting

Extracting and manipulating data from Sage

Product costing and margin analysis

Supporting operational and commercial decision making

Working alongside auditors and external accountants

Supporting future systems implementation projects

Managing and developing transactional finance processes

Supporting growth and future acquisitions

The successful candidate will ideally have:

Manufacturing finance experience

Strong costing experience

Excellent Excel capability

Experience within a product-led environment

Commercial finance exposure

A proactive and hands-on approach

Experience within food manufacturing FMCG or industrial manufacturing would be highly advantageous.

The business is open-minded on qualification status and will consider qualified part-qualified or QBE candidates with the right operational and commercial experience.

For a confidential discussion please contact Castle Employment Group.