Financial Controller

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER / HYBRID ROLE / MANCHESTER CITY CENTRE / UP TO £65K & GREAT BENEFITS

WEX is an innovative payments and technology company looking to forge the way in a rapidly changing environment, with a goal to simplify the business of doing business for our customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love.

We are on a journey to build a consistent world class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer driven innovation across all of our strategic initiatives.

Due to internal promotion we are now looking for a new Financial Controller to join our highly experienced team based in Manchester.

The successful Financial Controller will work with a large finance team but will be working in a smaller sub team where they are responsible for three direct reports.

What s on offer?

• Highly competitive salary between £55,000-£65,000 (dependent on experience)
• Annual company bonus
• 37.5 hour week - Monday to Friday- no evenings & weekends
• Hybrid working (1-2 days per week in the Manchester office)
• Industry leading pension scheme
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays - with the opportunity to purchase additional holidays
• Life assurance & Income protection
• Discounts & perks platform
• Employee wellbeing
• Employee & Corporate events calendar throughout the year

Key Responsibilities of the Financial Controller:

• Manage the preparation of monthly management accounts for the France, Belgium, Germany, UK and Telematics businesses under tight reporting deadlines to the US parent
• Preparation of supplementary returns to US head office finance team
• Investigate and explain variances to budget and forecast.
• Work with the FP&A team to prepare detailed budgets and forecasts
• Develop strong relationships financial systems, FP&A, commercial and credit teams to enable effective business partnering process
• Preparation of the annual financial statements for statutory entities including liaison with external auditors with support from ECC
• Manage audit process for 4 x legal entities
• Manage a junior finance team (1 x qual, 2 x part quals)
• Maintenance of a strong accounting control environment via monthly balance sheet reconciliation process
• Review of month end reconciliations and timely resolution of differences
• Finance point of contact for staff in local offices
• Potential ad hoc European travel to assist with compliance obligations e.g. meetings with compliance advisors

Skills & Experience:

• Qualified accountant with proven working experience
• Ability to interface with all levels of management and staff
• Comfortable working in a large finance team of approx. 40 staff and liaising with peer group of Financial Controllers (3 in total including this role)
• Excellent technical accounting knowledge
• High level of IT literacy including use of databases (MS Access)
• Ability to effectively delegate tasks whilst retaining responsibility
• Strong organisational skills
• Flexible approach and willingness to roll up sleeves

What s Next?

If you feel that you have the necessary skills to be our next Financial Controller then please APPLY TODAY for immediate consideration.