Job Title: Divisional Financial Controller- 12 months fixed term contract (Hybrid)

Vacancy Location:  Horley, RH6 9AU

Shifts: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

Pay Rate: Competitive

Who We Are

We’re here to support people to flourish in a place they call home. We’re one of the largest providers of adult social care with over 4,000 colleagues supporting 1,300 people. Our approach is all about activities and co-production with the people we support. We work with them to design and plan what we do – so we can create the best experiences together.

We're very proud to be recognised as one of the best organisations to work in by  ‘The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024’.

And we’re on a mission to benefit even more people with our uncompromising quality of care and support. It’s the professional expertise and passion of our team that makes us different. We genuinely care and we love supporting people to set and then reach their goals. Because every person deserves the very best experience – every day.

Role Overview

 We are looking for a Divisional Financial Controller to join our team in East Surrey on a 12 month fixed term contract. The role will involve:

• Overseeing  the divisional finance team responsible for management accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable and credit control.
• Driving improvements in efficiency of processes, reporting and strong controls whilst developing the finance team.
• Business Partnering with the Managing Director and functional teams to bring insight, support decision making and drive business performance.
• Ensuring a consistent working approach across the historical entities within the region is maintained- good understanding of controls and process management
• Supporting the transformation team to embed new finance processes with the system in early 2025 

Main responsibilities include:

• Ensure the month end management accounts and all supporting management information are completed to a high quality and are timely and accurate.
• Manage divisional cashflow and banking reporting, ensuring the cashflow position is well managed and forward-looking forecasts understood and accurate, to include sales invoicing, cash collection / debtor management, purchase invoicing and accruals, payroll recognition etc.
• Ensure there are strong controls, processes and reporting in place across the finance team.
• Ensure any balance sheet risks are identified and minimised.
• Co-ordinate the external audit- liaising with external auditors on divisional requirements.
• Drive improvements in efficiency of processes, reporting and strong controls whilst developing the finance team – coaching, supporting and upskilling across the team and driving collective ownership and embedding a continuous improvement mindset.
• Partner with key stakeholders in the business to bring insights into financial performance, understand the impact of key levers and support in driving actions to improve.
• Lead on any divisional finance improvement projects, including systems and process improvements.
• Work closely with the wider Group finance team to build strong collaborative relationships across the function as a whole and identify improvements that benefit the overall group.

Main Skills & Experience for this role:

• Relevant finance qualification(s).
• Strong team leadership, ability to drive change, focused on team development and a great communicator.  Not hierarchical and happy to get stuck in and lead from the front.
• Depth of financial experience in particular in relation to management accounts preparation, with a strong understanding of processes across the different aspects of finance.
• Strong collaborator, great at building relationships with both finance and non-finance stakeholders, with a can-do attitude, whilst also holding stakeholders to account on delivery.
• Ability to work in an organisation with complexity in structure (multiple regions and entities).
• Ability to prioritise and juggle multiple tasks across a varied team with multiple stakeholders.  Be flexible, adaptable and proactive.

If you’re ready for a job that can truly make a difference and you’re up for a challenge, then this is the team for you.

5 reasons to work with ivolve

1.       Our people are pretty fabulous. We take pride and pleasure in helping others to flourish.

2.       There’s a great energy across the business and a strong sense of teamwork.

3.       Very few jobs have such an impact on people’s lives – we bring joy to people every day.

4.       We have a proud history, we’re a big organisation of over 4,000 colleagues supporting around 1,300 people.

5.       We build and nourish relationships with the people we support.

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