Financial Controller

Were Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. Were a top 30 accounting firm working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals and make an impact in the world.

Were growing fast and are bringing likeminded advisors together to form a fullservice techenabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

Our mission is to become the UKs leading techenabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our highcalibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us youll not only be working on exciting client challenges but youll also be helping us shape the future of accounting.

The Role

The Financial Controller is responsible for the preparation of the monthly management accounts regular tax returns and maintaining strong internal controls and the preparation of the companys monthly accounts. They will have day to day responsibility for managing the accounting team credit control payables teams and will work closely with FP&A and Business Partnering team members.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Reporting: Preparing and publishing timely monthly financial statements; Responsible for month end reporting timetable and managing month end close process in accordance with the agreed timetable.

• Accounting: Manage all accounting operations including Billing A/R A/P GL WIP Accounting and Revenue Recognition (based on information prepared by the Business Partner). Preparation of payroll journals for month end and other adhoc tasks e.g. Survey data Partner Current Account

• Risk Management: Identify potential financial risks and opportunities e.g. fraud financial misstatements offering mitigation strategies and internal controls to safeguard the companys financial health. Maintenance of strong financial controls. Approval of payments in line with Gravita Roles and Responsibility Matrix.

• Audit and Taxation: Oversight of preparation (by Group Accountant) of financial statements and all accompanying files in order to support annual audit liase with audit team on the ground in order to ensure that the audit is completed in a timely and efficient manner. Coordinate and oversee tax compliance and reporting activities (prepared by Group Accountant)

• Transformation: Implementing best in class tools and processes across the entire business e.g. AP billing and collection expenses automation. Identifying improvements in processes in order to accelerate the reporting timetable and drive efficiency within the team.

• Process: Implement standardized finance processes across the Gravita business.

• Team Leadership and Development: Supervise and mentor a team of finance professionals fostering their growth and development. Foster a culture of accountability teamwork and continuous improvement within the finance department. Ensure team are adequately trained.

Qualifications Knowledge & Experience

• CIMA ACCA or ACA Qualified with five years post qualified experience

• Advanced Excel Skills

• Ideally prior experience in a PE environment

• Taking a data driven approach to everything;

• A real aptitude for working with numbers;

• Excellent ability to make informed decisions; and

• Confident communication and presentation skills.

The Nitty Gritty

• Our standard working week is a 37.5hour week on a hybrid basis (with up to 50% of your time across the month home based and the other 50% office based)
• Core working hours are 10am 4pm Monday to Friday
• Flexible working and happy employees are at the top of our list here at Gravita and we have been working hard to support our teams through the fastpaced changes.
• Your development wont be forgotten our development support is extraordinary for a firm of our size.
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