Job summary

From humble beginnings Carbase, formally Brent Cars launched in 2003 as a family-run dealership in a small Somerset village. Since then we have grown into the largest independent used car dealership in the South-West, we are looking for an experienced financial controller to join our growing family!

Location:

The candidate will primarily work in Weston but may need to work 1 or 2 days a week at other locations such as Bristol as required for the role.

Role Purpose:

A senior role that pursues improved financial performance by actively partnering with all operational functions to deliver business objectives and providing an essential link between Finance and the Senior Leadership Team

To manage the Finance and Admin departments across multiple locations and to manage all day to day financial activities to deliver accurate and insightful reporting to all stakeholders.

Role Responsbilities:

* Drive improved financial performance by actively partnering with all operational functions to deliver business objectives.

* Reporting directly into the CFO and Senior Leadership Team

* Oversee all activities relating to the delivery of Finance projects

* Lead both the Finance team and two Admin teams totalling twelve staff

* Manage all Finance related activities, financial controls, quality standards and communication to stakeholders.

* Drive collaboration between various functional teams across the business

* Oversee the production of monthly financials, departmental budgets, multi-year forecasting and daily/weekly KPI’s.

* Manage the year end audit

* Be responsible for maintaining accurate accounting data within the main DMS software and working with the software provider to develop improved functionality.

Essential skills, qualifications and experience:

* Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) approx. 3 Years PQE minimum.

* Finance delivery experience, with particular focus on financial reporting, controls, business partnering and common financial processes.

* Must be comfortable working with large amounts of data and be able to continually develop our financial reporting and provide business insights to the Senior Leadership Team.

* A strong communicator and be able to work calmly under pressure and make high-level decisions on a wide range of issues

* Have a commercial mindset that understands the broader goals of the business.MUST be able to motivate their team and develop talent

For further information, please email ***********@carbase.co.uk

No agencies please.