Financial Controller

Description:

We work with businesses in the farming, food, agribusiness, and family business sectors. We bring our foresight, commercial insight, and financial acumen to help our clients make great decisions and build profitable sustainable businesses.

The successful candidate will join a vibrant and customer focused Finance Team responsible for ensuring high quality financial management and reporting. Working closely with the Senior Management Team, you will provide valuable information and insights to help ifac achieve its strategic objectives.

This role will ideally suit an experienced Financial Controller with excellent standards who loves getting involved in projects and delivering value. It is a hands on role. Our Financial Controller should have a passion for accounting, leading people, and building great systems and processes.

Successful candidates will have:

• A third level qualification in business or a related discipline.
• A professional accountancy qualification (CPA/ACCA/ACA)..
• Experience in financial reporting for multiple business units and subsidiaries.
• Experience in preparing statutory audit files for external audit compliance.
• A working knowledge of MS Office and accounts packages.
• Excellent communication skills.
• A passion for helping people.

Experience in a professional services finance team and or investment services environment is considered an advantage for this role.

• To lead the monthly management accounts reporting for the ifac group.
• To provide monthly analysis and in-depth reporting on financial performance for all group accounts.
• To manage and develop best practice accounting policies and internal financial controls and to ensure accounting policies comply with the relevant accounting standards.
• To review and monitor costs on an on-going basis.
• To manage the accounts payable and debtor control functions.
• To ensure all statutory returns are made accurately and on-time.
• To coordinate the group audits and taxation reviews.
• To co-ordinate the year-end reviews for all business units.
• To manage the flow of information between internal departments.
• To lead and develop the Finance Team.
• To liaise with external advisers, bankers, insurance companies, and financial institutions.
• To liaise with the Senior Management Team and all ifac Partners.
• Develop excellent working relationships with all stakeholders in the business.