The Company
FFF Group manufactures and sources welding consumables, specialised steel forgings, castings, fabricated products and solutions sourced from selected international suppliers and rigorously quality-checked by our on-site employees at various supplier locations.
The Position
This newly created role supports a rapidly expanding business and works closely with the Group CFO, collaborating across all operational and financial areas of the organisation. You will play a key role in enhancing the company's financial capability by taking ownership of recently developed financial models by refining, improving, and extending their predictive capability over time.
The ideal candidate is an experienced and engaged finance professional with a passion for building best‑practice financial models and delivering insightful commercial analysis. You'll step into a high‑performing Finance Team, contributing to continuous improvement and helping drive strong financial understanding across the business.
The role will include supporting the staged rollout of the new Odoo ERP system (one of the world's fastest‑growing business applications) ensuring smooth migration across multiple entities and enabling improved reporting, controls, and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Reporting & Consolidation - Lead the preparation and delivery of accurate financial reporting across multiple entities, ensuring data integrity, timely consolidations, and alignment of information from various sources.
Financial Modelling & Insights - Enhance, update, and build financial models using best‑practice Excel techniques, improving forecasting accuracy and supporting commercial decision‑making.
Job Costing & Month‑End Accuracy - Review historical job costings against budgets, ensuring sales and costs are recorded in the correct period. Reconcile work‑in‑progress and manage timely release of items to the P&L.
Forecasting & Pipeline Visibility - Prepare monthly sales and cost‑of‑sales forecasts for the jobs pipeline, providing clear insights into performance trends.
Management Reporting - Update the monthly 3‑way management accounts pack, including forecasts and commentary, ensuring completion within required month‑end deadlines.
Performance & Variance Analysis - Produce meaningful analysis of variances and trends, delivering insights and recommended actions to improve business performance.
Scenario & Sensitivity Analysis - Conduct financial model scenario testing to support decision‑making and assess different operational or commercial outcomes.
Team Oversight & Review - Provide oversight and review of outputs delivered by both local and offshore accounting teams, ensuring accuracy and adherence to standards.
Stakeholder Engagement - Collaborate across the business with internal and external stakeholders to address financial queries, provide clarity, and support operational decisions.
Transactional & Ledger Governance - Oversee accurate processing within the general ledger, sub‑ledgers, and job systems, ensuring robust financial controls.
Balance Sheet Integrity - Prepare and/or review month‑end balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring all accounts are accurate and issues are promptly resolved.
Payments & Treasury Oversight - Review and approve local and international payments across multiple entities, maintaining strong governance and cashflow awareness.
Support Group Finance Functions - Support finance operations across the group, including accounting, payroll, AP/AR, tax, cashflow management, insurance, and business administration.
Internal Control & Policy Frameworks - Ensure strong internal controls and financial policies are maintained, embedded, and monitored across all business units.
Business Partnering - Act as a finance partner to managers across the group, providing insights, guidance, and support to drive performance.
Required Skills and Attributes:
Qualifications & Experience – Degree qualified finance professional with proven success in a similar role. Confident operating across different ERP systems and adaptable to new technology environments.
Technical Capability - Advanced Excel user, with strong capability in Power Query, Power Pivot, Pivot Tables, SUMIFS, XLOOKUP, and best‑practice modelling standards. Able to build and maintain financial models with audit trail as opposed to unnecessarily long formulas. A passion for leveraging technology and AI.
Communication & Collaboration - Excellent English written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate financial insights for non‑financial stakeholders.
Personal Attributes - Proactive, collaborative, and solutions‑focused, with strong resilience and the ability to thrive in a dynamic environment. Curious and engaged, with a strong desire to deepen both financial and operational understanding of the
Unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies not accepted.