Financial Controller - (SME Retail / Wholesale)

Mapped Recruitment is partnering with a high-growth SME organisation, circa £4m in turnover, based in West London, on their search for a No. 1 in finance, reporting into the business's Founders, to support their next phase of growth.

This role will oversee and support the external bookkeeper with transactional finance duties (with scope to scale up/restructure the future finance team in the long term), whilst immediately being responsible for month-end tasks and commercial and strategic finance duties.

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the business founders, overseeing an external bookkeeper with finance operations, accounts payable and receivable
• Monthly bank reconciliations, proactively investigating and resolving discrepancies
• expenses processed by our bookkeeper in line with company policy
• Overseeing credit control
• Prepare monthly management accounts, including detailed P&L, balance sheet and cashflow
• reporting
• Month-end processes, including stock valuation and goods-in-transit reconciliation
• Cashflow forecasting
• VAT (UK/Europe/USA)
• Partner with the directors and senior leadership team to provide strategic financial insight.
• Ad hoc projects: Proactively identify opportunities to improve systems, reporting and operational efficiency

Key Requirements:

• Experience within a similar role and organisation with the UK - B2B/B2C - wholesale, retail, consumer/stock environment is essential
• ACCA/ACA/CIMA or equivalent experience
• Exceptional communication skills/finance business partner abilities
• Ability to have ownership of a Finance function of a similar size
• Aptitude to report into Founder level, supporting the commercial growth of the business
• Xero/Dext experience will be highly advantageous

In addition to the stated salary range, this role also offers a discretionary bonus and private health care and is based in the office 4 days a week, 1 day from home (Notting Hill/Ladbroke Grove area)

Full working rights are required for this role/no sponsorship is on offer