Financial Accountant (Manufacturing)

• Recuited to lead the development and successful execution of all financial management plans, and ensure alignment with the overarching financial strategy, whilst communicating business value and financial recommendations to support short- and long-term business decisions.

Financial Management

• Manage daily financial operations, ensuring consistency across the organisation;
• Analyse and validate financial data to better understand potential risks, concerns and outcomes of decisions
• Perform Daily Bank imports and allocate payments to relevant suppliers and customers;
• Monitor and enforce compliance-related policies, procedures, guidelines, and best practices
• Monitor the expenditures on an on-going basis; ensuring that expenditures are in accordance
• with the approved annual budget
• Drive the implementation and management of risk and finance management protocols and prescripts
• Collaborate with and provide support to the CFO, Technical team and other key decision-making bodies
• Implement budgetary controls and ensure effective internal control systems in the accounting and reporting cycles
• Accurately accrue unprocessed invoices and receivers; prioritising the timely reconciliation on all accounts and following up on outstanding invoices each month.
• Investigate the financial situation of Franchisee and usually provide recommendations as to how to improve, and train franchisees on finance.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Arranged and attended stakeholder meetings and ensured feedback of stakeholder responses and requests are responded to within agreed timescales
• Nurtured, grew and further developed a portfolio of long-term stakeholder relationships, whilst considering how these relationships can be amplified to reap greater benefits across the company

Report Management

• Created and delivered informative reporting and results analysis on financial objectives, ensuring continued visibility of plans and progress;
• Produced monthly reports and completion of Sustainability Report to the Holding Company.

Data Management

• Developed and implemented a data management repository and respond to adhoc data requests from Regional and Global as required.

Strategy Development

• Supported the developmentof financial management strategies that support business priorities and overall objectives;
• Analysed existing strategies for efficacy and evaluated how these can be optimised in future.

Performance / Resource Optimisation

• Managed performance and continuously identified opportunities to improve processes;
• Prioritised strategic alignment of resources to maximise deliverable outputs.
• Engaged and assisted in ongoing business optimisation exercises across the Group to maximise shareholder value;
• Supported the development (and review) of economic models, capturing all technical and commercial

• Order of all new capital equipment from different Suppliers eg. Sweden, India, etc.
• Liaise with international sister companies & suppliers, follow ups
• Entering stock on JBA data system
• Co-ordinating of shipments & road transport
• Imports & Exports of capital equipment
• Costing schedules - Daily
• Shipping journal updates - Daily
• GIT(Goods in transit reports)
• Keeping capital equipment files in order & updates
• Arrange transport for machines to be delivered
• Raise Tickets on Remedy Accounting System
• GRN invoices on JBA/System 21 Accounting System
• Maintain and control movement of stock from the plant to different customers
• Monitor Consignment stock
• Invoicing Customers on Stock Purchased
• Reconciling Stock Cards with System 21/JBA

• Maintaining General Ledger using Oracle Computer System
• Publicizing Management Reports
• Reconciliation of AMEX & Dinners Club Travelling Accounts
• Preparing Year End Reports for the Auditors
• Completing VAT Return
• Accounts Reconciliation
• Die Shop and Billet Preparation Profit and Loss Statement
• Fixed Price Purchase Contracts
• Sales Analysis
• RSC Levies
• Performing Various Financial Management Assignments
• Participating in projects
• Intervening using Financial & Accounting Systems & Procedures in order to improve Accounts Reporting
• Controlling Systems & Timeous Dissemination of Information
• Customer Foreign Currency

• Keep and maintain all financial records
• Implementation and control of Approved budgets in consultation with the MEO
• Monitor cash-flow in all budgets
• Approve all purchases and payments
• Manage assets
• Administer all financial aspects of the office
• IT Specialist
• Ad hoc projects