Essential Skills:
- Fully qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA with relevant experience of financial reporting
- Financial planning and strategy within fast paced environment
- Budgetary and quality management skills
- Managing profitability, process improvement and forecasting
- Strategic financial awareness
- Ability to handle complex projects and an ability to diagnose problems and solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Leadership and people management skills
The following would also be an asset:
- Full legal understanding of Company Law, Contract Law, IPR Law and EC Law, Taxation and VAT.
Thomas International is the largest privately-owned global assessment provider, at the forefront of assessment innovation. We are seeking an experienced and committed individual with the skills and experience to head up our Finance Department and provide a major contribution to the strategic financial planning of this global organisation.
Reporting to the UK and International Managing Directors and based in our Marlow office, this role is responsible for controlling the maintenance, development and accuracy of all financial and management information records, and the timely preparation of financial statements. Leading a team and liaising confidently with senior leaders across the UK and internationally, this high profile role will ensure competent budgetary control through analysis and collaboration across all four Thomas businesses.
With high levels of business and financial acumen, and an understanding of company strategy, you will have full responsibility for the preparation and circulation of accurate and timely monthly management accounts and statements, liaising with auditors as well as key company stakeholders. You will control long and short term cash flow forecast preparation and credit control procedures and ensure timely completion of government compliance of a financial nature.
You will be professionally qualified with experience influencing senior leaders within a fast-paced commercial environment. A people manager, you will have strong analytical skills and experience interpreting a strategic vision into an operational model. You will be an operational manager with high integrity and a commitment to developing your team.
Thomas International provides people assessments which empower business leaders to transform the performance of their teams and individuals – and deliver an immediate impact on their organisation.
We help our clients recruit, retain, develop and manage their people. We’ll give insight into staff – what motivates them, their core strengths and limitations, and their potential. And we’ll add a high level of certainty to all people-related decisions.
Thomas is different because our assessments are straightforward to understand and quick to use, with rapid results. Our client service teams will train and advise and provide practical assistance. Their aim is to empower managers to use people assessments to create maximum value for their organisation.
Thomas has been at the forefront of assessment innovation for 33 years. We provide assessments in 56 languages and have a presence in over 60 countries. Today we are working with 32,000 companies and 250,000 trained Thomas users worldwide. Our clients span every type of business of all sizes and complete over 1.5 million assessments every year.
The Thomas Group of Companies also includes in Thomas Education and Thomas Sport.
The successful candidate should be capable of collecting information and imparting it to others. Whilst being adaptable by nature, the ideal job holder will need to ensure strict conformity with rules, systems and protocol. The area of work is likely to have some administrative, specialist or technical aspects and the person fulfilling the role should have the persistence to see a job through to conclusion. The incumbent should be dependable, loyal, a good listener and enjoy working in a logical and systematic manner. Standard operating procedures are important aspects of this role and as such, it will require an individual who is organised, structured, self- controlled and capable of communicating facts within the required area of knowledge and expertise. The successful candidate for the Head of Finance should be consistent in approach, analytical, sensitive, precise and compliant. The environment, wherever possible should be free of confrontation and the person occupying the role should be non-aggressive by nature.