Financial Controller

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🌐 United Kingdom, South Africa, +2 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote 🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote 🇵🇰 Pakistan – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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⛔️ Financial Controller

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📋 Description

• Take full ownership of the company's day-to-day finance and accounting operations. • Prepare and deliver accurate monthly management accounts, including profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports, by the 10th working day of each month. • Prepare year-end financial records and reporting packs for external accountants. • Maintain and update rolling 13-week cash flow forecasts. • Prepare and submit UK VAT returns through Making Tax Digital (MTD), ensuring all deadlines are met. • Manage UK PAYE payroll, including RTI submissions, auto-enrolment pensions, and statutory payments. • Handle HMRC correspondence, tax compliance, and relevant reporting requirements. • Manage credit control, proactively chasing overdue invoices and maintaining accurate aged-debtor reports. • Perform regular bank, card, ledger, VAT, payroll, and control account reconciliations. • Oversee purchase ledger activities, including supplier invoice processing and timely payments. • Monitor job and project profitability, including material costs, stock usage, and wastage. • Produce monthly job-costing and site profitability reports. • Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting systems, and accounting automation. • Work directly with company directors, providing financial insights and supporting business decisions.

🎯 Requirements

• Fully qualified accountant with ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or an equivalent recognised professional qualification. • Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience independently managing the full accounts function of a UK limited company. • Proven experience preparing monthly management accounts, P&L statements, balance sheets, and year-end figures without supervision. • Strong practical knowledge of UK VAT and Making Tax Digital, including end-to-end VAT return preparation and submission. • Experience managing UK PAYE payroll, RTI submissions, auto-enrolment pensions, and statutory payments. • Practical experience with UK tax compliance and HMRC requirements. • Strong credit control experience, including directly chasing customers for overdue payments by phone and email. • Excellent knowledge of bank, card, ledger, and control account reconciliations. • Proficiency in cloud accounting software such as Xero, Sage, or QuickBooks. Xero experience is particularly valuable. • Strong Excel skills and the ability to produce accurate financial reports. • Previous experience working with UK clients, directors, suppliers, or accounting firms. • Excellent written and spoken English communication skills. • Ability to work independently, solve problems, and meet deadlines without supervision. • Own reliable computer, high-speed internet connection, and a quiet, secure remote workspace. • Availability to work UK business hours. • Nice-to-haves: previous experience in construction, manufacturing, stone fabrication, kitchen and bathroom, or building materials industries; knowledge of CIS and the construction VAT domestic reverse charge; experience with job costing, project profitability, stock management, and material wastage tracking; experience with CRM or job-management systems integrated with accounting software; experience implementing new accounting software, improving financial processes, or automating reporting; experience with vehicle finance, fleet costs, banking relationships, and business lending; registration as an HMRC agent or previous experience working with HMRC agent access; previous experience supporting UK businesses from an offshore location.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Fully remote work environment • Career growth opportunities in a high-growth sector • Long-term stability within an innovative team

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