**This is an on-site role due to the nature of the business (retail)**
Seeking a Finance Controller to lead financial operations across retail sites. You'll manage comprehensive financial processes, drive monthly P&L production, and provide strategic business partnering to retail management teams while ensuring accuracy and compliance across all financial activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Take full ownership of financial processes across retail locations, including monthly profit & loss reporting and month-end procedures
- Conduct monthly financial reviews with department heads, sales directors, and commercial finance teams
- Manage finance staff and collaborate across sales, service, parts, and executive leadership
- Ensure monthly reconciliations of commercial balance sheet accounts and maintain robust processes for financial accuracy
- Produce budgets and forecasts while building complex models to analyse variances and business impact
- Oversee internal and external audit processes for retail sites
- Provide financial information as required by senior management
Key Essentials
- Qualified accountant or equivalent experience
- Expertise in financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting
- Experience with month-end and year-end closing processes
Skills & Attributes
- Advanced Excel skills and strong IT/finance systems proficiency
- Excellent analytical and critical-thinking capabilities
- Outstanding communication skills with ability to present financial data to non-financial audiences
- Highly organized with proven ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines
- Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with strong work ethic
- Confident communicator able to engage with all organisational levels
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