The primary purpose of the role is to provide visibility to the Group Financial Controller and the Executive Leadership, banks and investors, of the current and projected liquidity of the Group, alongside working with business areas to manage working capital effectively.

This is a key role reporting into the Head of Group Central Finance. You will work across different areas to include accounting, treasury and working capital activities, whilst leading teams in our Shared Service Centre in India (Kochi).

You’ll work from our Bristol office on a hybrid basis, with Tuesdays and Wednesdays being days in the office with the wider Finance & Corporate Services team and the rest of your week working remotely.

• Ensuring cash forecasts are delivered in a timely manner and are thoroughly critiqued before issuing to management.
• Presenting cash forecasts to GFD C&O and CFO on weekly basis.
• Managing cash flow levers and monitoring to BUD/FC and presenting to Senior Management.
• Leading cashflow automation through NetSuite.
• Producing cash to EBITDA bridge for all budgets and forecasts.
• Ensuring compliance with all credit facilities to include meeting the lenders reporting requirements and ownership of monthly lender packs. Ensuring we are operating within the undertakings given in the loan agreements and monitoring the banking covenants.
• Preparing compliance metrics for Audit Committee, and owning SFA compliance reporting for both Audit Committee & external auditors.
• Actively involved in hedging discussions and presentation of options to the Executive Board.
• Leading cross-company opportunities for centralisation of Benefex Treasury function.
• Owning statutory disclosures surrounding Borrowing facilities.
• Banking – System Admin Tasks, approval of payments, cheques.
• Assisting re-negotiation of additional facilities or renewal of current facilities.
• Working capital reporting.
• Leading a process of continuous improvement around cash forecasting to ensure models remain fit for purpose and evolve with the business.
• Being part of the Central Finance Function and able to assist the Group Financial Reporting Team/Group Financial
• Reporting Manager with Accounting and Reporting tasks as demand requires.
• Motivating and developing the SSC team reviewing all data prepared by them.
• Working with colleagues to create efficiencies and improve business performance.

• Fully qualified chartered accountant, with >3 years post-qualification experience.
• Solid experience of working in a finance team or accountancy practice (Big 4 preferred) with good understanding of the reporting cycles.
• Strong proficiency with MS Excel.
• A team player with experience of working with an offshore SSC would be an advantage.
• Proactive, stress resilient, thought provoking, challenging mindset with ability to manage upwards, downwards, and influence across multiple teams and stakeholders. Able to build strong interpersonal relationships and able to influence and interact with individuals at all levels of the organisation.
• Effective communication skills to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Innovative and forward thinking about streamlining processes for ultimate efficiency.
• Ability to multitask, deal with complexity and conflicting priorities/projects/ deals at the same time.
• Able to think both strategically and tactically.
• Commercial awareness.
• Capability to engage with stakeholders at different levels.
• Accomplished at working effectively across teams in a matrixed operating model.
• Proven ability to identify opportunities for process improvements and to implement these successfully.
• Strong organisation and planning skills, effective time management and the ability to use efficient work methods and tools.
• Detail oriented, thorough and focused on all aspects of the job to ensure accuracy.