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Financial Controller - London

Employer
Fusion Lifestyle
Location
Greater London
Salary
£50k - £55k
Closing date
8 May 2018

Fusion Lifestyle is recruiting a Financial Controller to develop and manage the finance function and financial control systems whilst driving efficiency and value for money throughout the organisation

The Company

Fusion is a leading Sports, Leisure and Fitness operator that manages around 85 venues. The company has more than doubled in size in recent years in terms of people, sites and revenue. Growth has been both organic and through acquisition. Fusion employ circa 3,000 staff in sites spread from Devon to Newcastle which have 25 million customer visits pa generating over £80M of revenue.

The business is highly commercial in its outlook – it has to be to generate returns on the significant investments it has made in its facility portfolio and to thrive in its increasingly competitive market place. Fusion is also a registered charity whose charitable purpose is to offer accessible sports and leisure activities to the local community.

 Fusion believes that leisure provision for the local community should not be the choice of last resort – which is why it has overseen over £150M of investment in the last 7 years creating and refurbishing facilities that match the best in the industry.

Main tasks and responsibilities

  • Financial & Management Reporting: development, implementation & delivery of all financial & management reporting to Board, Management (including all Centre Managers) & Local Authority Clients; including but not limited to weekly KPI’s, monthly Board Pack, monthly Centre P&Ls & statutory accounts.
  • Statutory Compliance: completion of charities return; reporting of National Statistics; co-ordination of external audit; management of all tax affairs (including but not limited VAT & employment taxes);
  • Transaction Processing & Accounting: development of efficient transaction processes; maintenance of accounting books & records in accordance with accounting standards, Charity & Companies Acts.
  • Payroll and Pension: development, implementation & delivery of efficient processes, administration & compliance.
  • Financial Control: development & monitoring of all financial controls to ensure no material error or loss occurs; development & delivery of budget & forecast; assist EMT  in monitoring of results and enforcement of budget targets; review & analysis of performance with recommended actions.
  • Profit Protection: develop, implement and deliver pro-active strategies to prevent revenue or cash leakage from the business.
  • Cash Management: production of weekly cashflow report and forecast; management of cash within constraints of budget and reserves policy.
  • Decision Support: provision & development of effective decision support for Management in relation to investment and all other commercial matters and post-implementation evaluation.
  • Management: provision of effective direction to Finance team; provision of effective training & development for Finance team.
  • Undertake projects or ad-hoc work as requested by the Director of Finance.

Experience/Skills and Attributes needed:

Qualifications

  • University honours degree.
  • Accounting qualification (preferably CIMA, ACA or ACCA).

Experience

  • Liaison and management of external audit.
  • Finance Management position (min 5 years).
  • Multi-site business to consumer organisations
  • Project team/project management

Skills

  • Strong finance & accounting technical skills.
  • Highly IT literate
  • Accomplished excel user.

Knowledge

  • VAT and employment taxation.
  • mid to large scale accounting package (eg Sage 200)
  • mid to large scale payroll systems (eg Midland i-Trent)

Behaviours

  • Analytical/attention to detail
  • Results-driven
  • Solutions-focused with a “can do” attitude
  • Team Player
  • Resilient

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