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Role: Financial Controller
Located: Northampton (1 day per week in office)
Package: Competitive salary, car allowance, bonus plus additional company benefits
About Ricoh
Ricoh is a global technology business. As a company born in print, we design and manufacture graphic solutions that transform communications. To keep up with the pace of change in the workplace, we have built an extensive portfolio of innovative, industry-leading digital services spanning everything from Cloud & IT infrastructure solutions to process automation tools. Everything we do is designed to help individuals achieve fulfilment through work. Through technology, we make work smarter and more creative. Enabling people to lead purposeful working lives and organisations to become more productive, sustainable and profitable.
What you will be doing
Providing financial control / commercial support across the accounting function. Overseeing a medium sized team hugely involved in significant financial process improvement, systems upgrades and responsible for transformation of the accounting function and business while overseeing all aspects of financial management and control.
- To lead, coach and develop a team of qualified and part qualified financial professionals and associated support functions, to enhance the team’s execution and delivery of their responsibilities. Creating an environment of high energy, performance excellence and which contributes to employee engagement.
- Responsible for all aspects of the team’s activities (balance sheet, P&Ls, cash flow) overseeing the timely and accurate delivery each month of the company’s financial results, filing and reporting insight which support decision making in respect of revenue/margin and cost forecasting.
- Responsible for tracking and appraising the company’s financial status, preparing analytics, periodic performance reporting for Senior stakeholders/Board. Analysing and identify areas for improvement, formulating business proposals and presenting solutions to minimising potential commercial risk to the business.
- To build strong relationships across key business stakeholders to influence and develop financial awareness, assist with the translation of high-level business plans to detailed financial and commercially sound proposals which support the achievement of the Company’s MTP.
- To ensure consistent application of statutory regulatory compliance and audited control (IFRS/SOX), monitor regulatory changes and in conjunction with Group establish financial policies and procedures for the company. To pro-actively respond to requests in relation to SOX testing and audit queries, in order to meet Group SOX testing deadlines and to achieve a clean audit report.
- To support the financial leadership in the development of a credible and trusted finance function who provide commercial value, to inspire and motivate a team and enhance business relationship driving collaboration across departments to maximize partnership and engagement.
You will ideally have
- Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA), educated to degree level
- Proven commercial finance or regulatory finance experience within an IT and Professional Services / Consultancy Sectors within a comparable size organisation
- Experience of managing a high-performance finance function
- Comfortable with working in a challenging environment and influencing senior level leaders.
- Advanced knowledge of reporting, budgeting and forecasting process
- Strong commercial thought and foresight
- Preferred experience of successful finance transformation assignment
- Demonstrable ability to analyse and validate financial and performance data
- Comfortable communicating performance and influence key stakeholders
- Ability to apply persuasive influence with key stakeholders
- An adaptable to work in a growth and evolving environment
- Excellent presentation skills – able to translate complex data for non-finance audience
In return for your commitment, we can offer you:
- Flexible and hybrid working in line with role requirements
- An inclusive workplace
- Excellent package with solid basic, strong bonus and company benefits including:
- A competitive holiday entitlement, two days special leave per annum for volunteering, additional holiday purchase scheme
- Flexible retirement plan
- Wellbeing schemes to support your physical, emotional and financial health including Employee Assistance Programme, financial protection, life cover and will writing, medical protection, gym, travel and retail discounts, and more.
- Company car / car allowance (role-specific), cycle to work scheme
- Career development and life-long learning opportunities
- Opportunity to join a global company
Life at Ricoh
Ricoh’s Core Values
Our values encourage us to constantly improve and contribute to the wellbeing of all stakeholders, including our customers, employees and society. For our leaders, we deliver training and mentorship to ensure our managers can positively contribute to our company culture, with inclusive behaviours that are aligned to our values.
Be part of something bigger
Our approach to sustainability touches every part of our organisation: from manufacturing to distribution, business sites to recycling, and how we support our customers. By working with Ricoh, you choose to work for a company that cares about its impact on the planet and takes steps to reduce it each year. We have a number of global sustainability accreditations. You can read more about our work toward the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals here.
Equal opportunities employer
We are open to discussing adjustments to the recruitment process if needed. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.
Striving for inclusion and diversity isn’t just the right thing to do. Diverse approaches, perspectives and experiences make us more innovative, lead to better decisions and help us better understand the needs of our customers.
To empower you to bring your full identity to work, we have employee-led affinity groups in LGBTQ+, gender and ethnicity that allow members to explore issues and challenges surrounding shared identities, experiences and beliefs. xwzovoh
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