Financial Manager

Management and Fund Management

• Providing and interpreting financial information.
• Monitoring and interpreting cash flows and predicting future trends.
• Analyzing change and advising accordingly.
• Formulating strategic and long-term business plans.
• Analyzing competitors and market trends.
• Developing financial management mechanisms that minimise financial risk.
• Conducting reviews and evaluations for cost-reduction opportunities.
• Managing a company's financial accounting, monitoring and reporting systems.
• Liaising with auditors to ensure annual monitoring is carried out.
• Developing external relationships with appropriate contacts, e.g. auditors, solicitors, bankers and statutory organisations such as the Inland Revenue.
• Producing accurate financial reports to specific deadlines.
• Arranging new sources of finance for a company's debt facilities.
• Supervising staff.

Budgeting

• Manage the preparation of the company's budget
• Report to management on variances from the established budget, and the reasons for those variances
• Assist management in the formulation of its overall strategic direction

Financial Analysis

• Engage in ongoing cost reduction analyses in all areas of the company
• Review the performance of competitors and report on key issues to management
• Engage in benchmarking studies to establish areas of potential operational improvement

Responsibilities and Job Description

• Interpret the company's financial results to management and recommend improvement activities
• Review company bottlenecks and recommend changes to improve the overall level of company throughput
• Participate in target costing activities to create products that meeting predetermined price goals
• Assist in the determination of product pricing in relation to features offered and competitor pricing
• Compile key business metrics and report on them to management
• Manage the capital budgeting process, based on constraint analysis and discounted cash flow analysis
• Create additional analyses and reports as requested by management