Financial Director

JBT Corporation
JBT currently has a great opportunity for a Finance Director to join the Proseal team just south of Manchester. Your role as Finance Director works directly with our Group Finance Director of the Packaging Group in supporting the business with financial analysis, consolidations, cost analysis, planning and reporting needs of the Packaging Group of companies. You must be self-driven and be able to work with all levels of our organisation. The position is a hands-on Director role overseeing multiple manufacturing sites and business units; experience working within a USA organisation previously would be an advantage. We have a complex set-up with our main business split up across 3 countries and then a smaller business in the UK. Your role will be to review processes and provide recommendations for improvement; working with your team you will prepare various operations financial and trend analysis to support decision making and provide recommendations for business performance improvements. A day in the life of our Finance Director Manage closing of accounting books, ensuring that financial statements and financial information is prepared in an accurate and timely manner, maintaining financial reports used for reporting monthly data such as KPI Targets. You will ensure organization compliance with in areas including purchasing, manufacturing, fabrication and field operations and compliance with statutory reporting bodies. Support your two team leads in their functions as Business Controller and Management Accountant. Perform accounting functions in support of financial reporting cycle by analysing and compiling information and reports. Lead, coordinate and consolidate budgets for the Packaging Group (Proseal and AutoCoding sub-groups). Provide accurate and timely management reports. Lead and direct the activities of the finance and administrative team; ensuring the team are trained and motivated to carry out their duties safely and effectively to meet business objectives. Reconcile/analyse complex account across our sites. Communicate with internal and external auditors. Provide others with problem resolution and technical guidance on more complex financial issues. Drive and support various process improvement and profitability initiative; including future ERP system upgrades and improvements We would like someone with strong organisational skills with a proven team-building track record. For you to like problem solving, and to be quality and detail oriented with project management and process improvement experience. We would prefer you to have a Professional Accounting Qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) and experienced as a Senior Financial Professional with at least 5 years of solid. A high level of communication skills is required to interact with all levels of management, to lead teams and to direct the work of others. As we work within an innovative setting, we are always looking to develop our management tools, models, systems, and processes so experience of implementation and enhancing of Accounting systems would be a benefit in this role (we currently use Sage 200 and there is a potential for migration to Group ERP within 2-3 years). What s in it for you Competitive salary in line with the market Opportunity for development and progression in your career Holidays 33 days including bank holidays FOC parking on-site, vending machines, break-out areas with pool table, and football table Benefit portal including cheap gym membership, cycle to work program, learning and development, employee assistance program and retail discount scheme; including trips to the cinema for the family and coffee with a mate at Costa at a discount rate just because you work for us And of course, a super bunch of people to work with! A bit about us Proseal UK Ltd is a company that designs and manufactures high quality tray sealing and conveying systems for the food industry and has manufacturing facilities in the UK, North America, and Australia. Having been established for 25 years, demand for the Proseal product is growing and we are responsible for developing many plastic-based alternatives for preserving the life of and carrying food safely. Formed in 1998, Proseal has not only become the leading manufacturer of tray sealing machinery and tooling in the UK but is now also recognised as a major force internationally with manufacturing facilities in United states and Australia along with distributors in Ireland, Holland, Spain, Canada, South America and Dubai. We are just missing a Finance Director and that might just be you