Head of Finance

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How lovely to see you here. We’re excited that you might want to come work with us.

All current vacancies can be found below. Please send any emails regarding recruitment to people@scandikitchen.co.uk. Because of the automated way that many recruitment sites work nowadays (and the volume of CVs we get), we ask that you include a cover note with your CV, telling us why you want to work with ScandiKitchen – and why this role is perfect for you.

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Current Vacancies

➤ Head of Finance – Full-time, office-based

ScandiKitchen is the UK’s leading Pan-Scandinavian food importer, now in its 20th year of operation. We run our online shop and distribution operations from our Park Royal office and have two Central London hospitality units.

We are looking for someone to head up our Finance Department.

Our perfect candidate will have solid experience and be fully qualified. They are also very IT/System savvy, especially with regard to ERP (We use NetSuite).

Reporting to the Founding Director, the Head of Finance manages the Finance Assistant (office-based) and bookkeeper (off-site).

Responsibilities in the role

• Management Accounts & Reporting: prepare monthly/yearly management accounts and board pack; own P&L, balance sheet and cash flow reporting and analysis.
• Financial Control & Accuracy: responsible for balance sheet integrity; maintain financial controls and processes; manage A/P and A/R ledgers; account reconciliation; rolling cash flow forecasting.
• Financial planning and budgeting.
• Statutory compliance: VAT returns, preparation of year-end accounts.
• Process design & improvement: design/implement/document financial processes and controls, automate repetitive work; improve tools and processes as needed.
• Business partnering & stakeholder management: provide financial information to support decision-making across all levels of the business and develop tools to support this.
• Systems & data: improve use of ERP (NetSuite) for reporting and reconciling sales channel data, and ensure data integrity.
• Manage and develop the team.

Experience and qualifications required

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), PQE.
• Experience in a similar role; FMCG would be preferable.
• Commercial acumen: Strong understanding of inventory accounting, gross margin analysis and cost metrics.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• A strong independent work ethic, results-driven and not afraid of taking initiative.
• Excellent working knowledge of an ERP system (Oracle NetSuite would be a bonus).
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Solid reporting and presentation skills.
• People Management experience.
• Strong logic and problem-solving skills.
• Any knowledge of a Nordic language would be an advantage.

This role is currently vacant and can be offered as a (minimum) one-year contract or permanent. The role is office-based in Park Royal (past probation: one day WFH). The initial period will include a brief handover from a fractional FC currently in the role. Salary is in line with experience.

To apply, send your CV and cover letter* to Bronte via people@scandikitchen.co.uk.  First round will be online, second round will be in the office.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

* We prefer non-Ai generated cover letters.