Financial Controller - Clearmark

Imagine yourself…

·         Thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence. 

·         Collaborating with a vibrant, diverse, global team. 

·         Joining a company with a proven track record of success and an exciting future.

It’s all possible with a role at Videojet, a Veralto company. You have likely purchased or used a product touched by Videojet Technologies this week—after all, Videojet is a world leader in the product identification market, providing in-line printing, coding and marking products, consumables, and software solutions. Videojet’s technologies play a critical role in ensuring the safety and authenticity of products sold across the globe in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial marketplaces.

As part of the Videojet team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll work with products that make an everyday impact on the world around you—and along the way, you’ll have opportunities to make your mark on our business and your career with ongoing opportunities to deepen your skillset and pursue your ambitions.

Learn about our leading portfolio of innovative products here!

We offer:

• 26 days holiday
• Flexible working hours
• Professional onboarding and training options
• Powerful team looking forward to working with you
• Career coaching and development opportunities
• Health benefits

The Role – Financial Controller

The Financial Controller is responsible for leading the finance function at Clearmark Solutions, ensuring robust financial control, accurate and timely reporting, effective cash management and compliance with statutory and corporate requirements.

The role combines strong financial control with commercial business partnering, supporting management with meaningful financial insight while ensuring that the finance operation runs effectively and efficiently.

You will be leading and developing a team of 4 people and report directly to the Northern Europe FD:

• Accounts Payable
• Credit Control
• Purchasing Co-Ordinator
• Assistant Accountant

This is a hybrid role with 3 days/week at the Clearmark Solutions office in Nottingham.

Key responsibilities

 Financial reporting and control

• Lead the month end close process and ensure accurate, complete and timely financial reporting. 

• Maintain strong balance sheet control, including appropriate reconciliations and review processes. 

• Ensure the integrity of financial controls and accuracy of financial information used for decision-making. 

Budgeting, forecasting and business partnering

• Partner with operational and commercial colleagues on Daily Management to understand financial performance, improve forecast accuracy and identify risks and opportunities.  

• Lead the annual budgeting process and periodic forecasting activities. 

• Analyse performance against budget and forecast, explaining significant movements and supporting corrective actions. 

Cash flow and working capital

• Maintain a strong focus on cash generation and working capital management including liaison with operations team on inventory levels. 

• Oversee credit control and accounts receivable performance, ensuring overdue debt is actively managed. 

• Work closely with the Credit Controller and wider business to resolve issues affecting collection. 

Compliance, audit and governance

• Lead and coordinate annual statutory and internal audit requirements 

• Ensure statutory reporting is completed accurately and in accordance with FRS 102 

• Maintain a strong financial control environment and ensure issues identified through audit or internal reviews are addressed in a timely manner 

Finance team leadership

• Lead, motivate and develop the Finance team. 

• Set clear priorities and ensure responsibilities and deadlines are understood. 

• Develop capability within the team through coaching, knowledge sharing and appropriate delegation

Systems and continuous improvement

• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate finance processes 

• Support improvements to finance systems, reporting and controls 

• Work effectively within the wider organisation's financial processes and reporting requirements 

Requirements of the role

Essential

• Qualified accountant, ideally ACCA, CIMA or ACA. 

• Hands-on Controlling experience using SAP Business One. 

• 3-5 years’ experience in a manufacturing or a B2B environment at FC level. 

• Experience of month-end reporting, budgeting and forecasting. 

• Strong understanding of balance sheet control, cash flow and working capital. 

• Experience supporting or leading statutory audit processes. 

• Strong Excel and financial analysis skills. 

• Ability to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders. 

• Demonstrable experience managing and developing a finance team. 

Desirable

• Experience of finance system/process improvement and business integration. 

• Confident challenging constructively and influencing stakeholders. 

• Continuous improvement mindset. 

At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve.  Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.
 

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