Financial Controller

Financial Controller

Work with us in this fantastic opportunity at our Head Office in Oxford. You would be working closely with the Finance Director and would be responsible for leading and managing the Student Accounts department, ensuring accurate and timely provision of all reporting/budgets/fund requests for all CRM clients.

The department is a large team consisting of Qualified, Part Qualified and Qualified by Experience Accountants producing Management Accounts for clients of over 150+ student sites.

The department is going through a period of change, aligning to continued business growth in Europe. The post holder needs to be able to implement and champion the changes, review new processes and promote efficiencies to continue to strive for best of class quality of outputs.

Key Duties will include:

• Manage direct reports through delegation and monitoring of tasks to implement department and corporate initiatives.
• Manage team in delivery of annual budgets, monthly management accounts, funding requests and ad hoc reporting for clients.
• Liaise with Operations Director and other functional heads to improve cross department relationships, communication and efficient delivery of client service.
• Work with Head of Compliance to implement new legislation/requirements affecting UK, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, and Austria, plus any other regions in the future.
• Communicate effectively and manage a team of 30+ in UK & 15+ in India
• Figurehead for Student Accounts both internally and with prospective and current clients.
• Tableau champion identifying and implementing value added business reports
• Ensure Bank accounts, Merchant numbers and Prepaid cards are obtained in a timely manner and old accounts/Merchant numbers/Prepaid cards are cleansed on a regular basis.
• Ensure adequate Training is delivered at HO and Sites as required to ensure Finance processes operate efficiently.
• Oversee efficient and timely on-boarding and off-boarding of sites.
• Oversee Credit control and Amendments team.

Experience / skillset required:

• ACCA/CIMA/ACA Qualified with post qualification experience
• Good understanding of TCAS and Hexagon Dream plus other applications to identify areas for improvement and implementation of initiatives to improve processes or increase efficiencies.
• Use of Tableau to interrogate business data and provide management information for internal and external use
• Ability to communicate with Operational colleagues to identify areas for improvement, new processes to comply with emerging legislation

The salary is up to £65,000 depending of experience and comes with a good benefits package.