Assistant Financial Controller

ASSISTANT FINANCIAL CONTROLLER / MANCHESTER / HYBRID / £40,000-£48,000 PLUS BENEFITS

Fantastic new opening for an Assistant Financial Controller to join a rapidly expanding international organisation. Highly competitive pay, hybrid working and extensive benefits.

WEX is an innovative payments and technology company looking to forge the way in a rapidly changing environment, with a goal to simplify the business of doing business for our customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love. We are on a journey to build a consistent world class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer driven innovation across all of our strategic initiatives.

Due to internal promotion we are now looking for a new Assistant Financial Controller to join our highly experienced team based in Manchester. The successful candidate will work with a large finance team but will be working in a smaller sub team.

What s on offer?

• Highly competitive salary up to £40,000-£48,000 dependant on experience
• Annual Company Bonus
• 37.5-hour week - Monday to Friday- no evenings & weekends
• Hybrid working (1-2 days per week in our Manchester City Centre Office)
• Industry leading pension scheme
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays - with the opportunity to purchase additional holidays
• Life assurance & Income Protection
• Gym Flex membership
• Discounts & perks platform
• Employee wellbeing

Key Responsibilities of the Assistant Financial Controller:

• Manage the preparation of monthly management accounts for a number of trading business in the WEX Europe Services Group
• Support the Financial Controller as needed with all finance tasks
• Preparation of supplementary returns to US head office finance team
• Investigate and explain variances to budget and forecast
• Work with the FP&A team to prepare detailed budget and forecasts
• Liaison with project team to ensure smooth delivery into finance of systems changes and upgrades
• Maintenance of a strong accounting control environment via monthly balance sheet reconciliation process
• Review of month end reconciliations and timely resolution of differences
• Manage AR ledger for relevant businesses
• Preparation of the annual financial statements for the statutory entity including liaison with external auditors with support from ECC and FC
• Finance point of contract for staff in local offices
• Potential ad hoc European travel to assist with compliance obligations e.g. meetings with compliance advisors

Skills & Experience:

• Qualified Accountant No PQE required
• Ability to interface with all levels of management and staff
• Comfortable working in a large finance team of approx. 40 staff and liaising with all levels of staff
• Excellent technical accounting knowledge
• High level of IT literacy including use of databases (MS Access, Alteryx)
• Ability to effectively delegate tasks whilst retaining responsibility
• Accomplished communication skills, verbal and written

What s next?

If you feel that you have the necessary skills to be our new Assistant Financial Controller then please APPLY TODAY for immediate consideration.