Job Overview:
The Financial Reporting Manager (“FRM”) plays a key role in the financial control team, preparing the monthly reporting and having ownership of the completeness and accuracy of Revenue and Gross Margin, delivering these results to the Senior FP&A Manager for write up into the financial reporting pack to the CEO.
They will be responsible for the annual statutory audit process, preparing the accounts and tax provisions as required.
Along with the Finance Manager they will partner and support functions across the business, providing financial analysis and insights with regards to their discretionary capital and operational expenditure.
The FRM is expected to be a subject matter expert in the O2C process, and will directly manage the Commercial Sales Accountant.
They will support the Group FC in leading the Financial Control team, and are expected to help and build and maintain a culture aligned with the Company’s Values & Behaviours.
Primary Responsibilities for this role include:
Monthly Financial reporting
- Lead the preparation, completeness and accuracy of the monthly consolidated management accounts.
- Be a technical authority within the Control team, having a strong understanding of the accounting standards, and be able to independently make judgements on accounting treatments.
- Provide financial support to the Operations team to monitor and resolve variances on inventory and other standard cost control accounts, including updating inventory provisions and judgements on a quarterly basis.
- Responsible for preparing the warranty provision and other control accounts, ensuring relevant and all balance sheet accounts are maintained, and reflect the position of the business.
Statutory Reporting
- Responsible for the preparation of year end accounts and lead the statutory audit process.
- Ownership of recurring (monthly, quarterly and annual) tax reporting and requirements across all Group entities, with oversight and support from the Group FC.
- Supporting the GFC in other ad hoc tax projects, and overall tax compliance.
Order to Cash (O2C)
- Ownership of Revenue and Gross Margin, ensuring its completeness and accuracy each month.
- Line management of the Commercial Sales Accountant.
- Assist and support the Commercial Sales Accountant in their preparation and posting of the Gross Margin journals and review their reconciliations of related balance sheet accounts.
- Be the Finance subject matter expert in the O2C process and be the first point of contact for the Commercial Sales Accountant and the rest of the business for escalated queries.
Business Partnering
- Be a trusted partner across the business, with a particular focus on Sales, Marketing, Customer Excellence and Operations, pro-actively supporting with relevant financial information and insights.
- Partner with HR to deliver accurate payroll cost reporting by function and to provide analysis for month end reporting.
We are ideally looking for someone with the following skills and experience:
Qualifications
ACA or equivalent qualification required
Knowledge and Experience (please specify basic, advanced or expert)
- Minimum 2 years PQE desirable
- Ability to work with datasets using intermediate to advanced Excel skills is required
- Experience in industry preferred but not required
- Experience of managing a team preferred but not required
- Strong technical knowledge of financial systems, reconciliations, and accounting standards.
- Results oriented with a systematic and organised approach to work
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment while maintaining attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills and an ability to communicate financial results to non-finance stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence.
Why work for Refeyn?
Compensation and core benefits
- 25 days annual leave per year in addition to bank holidays
- Up to 7% employer matched pension contribution
- Private health insurance from day one plus critical illness cover, income protection and life insurance
- Give as You Earn and Cycle to Work salary sacrifice schemes.
Family Friendly Benefits
Refeyn offers the Enjoy Benefits Nursery Scheme to employees after 3 months, and new parents can benefit from up to 17 weeks fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave, plus an annual allowance for emergency childcare.
Supporting your Development
All employees receive access to Linkedin Learning which offers thousands of courses to support their personal and professional development. We also run frequent training sessions on both hard and soft skills.
Creating an Engaging Culture
Refeyn supports hybrid working where the role allows and offers flexible start and finish times. We also have a subsidised weekly lunch for onsite employees and a vibrant social calendar which includes holiday parties and midsummer festivals plus an annual team budget for managers to plan team-building activities.
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What We Do
Refeyn, the pioneer of mass photometry, is delivering a disruptive new generation of analytical instruments that let you weigh individual molecules with light.
Mass photometry offers new possibilities to characterise the function, structural composition and dynamics of biomolecules. Refeyn instruments measure the mass of individual molecules directly in solution, rapidly, and simply, revealing the true behaviour of molecules in near-native environments, providing scientists with key information about their mass distribution.
Refeyn was spun out of Oxford University in 2018 to make mass photometry available globally. Its technology has now been rapidly adopted across academia and industry, where it is transforming biomolecular characterisation.
