Head of Finance for Nordic food import company

Head of Finance

Full-time, office-based

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

We are looking for a Head of Finance to join our team and head up our Finance Department.

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

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).

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; someone who inspires, manages and also leads.
• Strong logic and problem-solving skills.
• Any knowledge of a Nordic language would be an advantage, but not essential.

This role is offered as permanent or as a one-year contract. The role is office-based in Park Royal NW10 7QQ (one day WFH). The initial period will include a brief handover from a fractional FD currently in the role. Salary in line with experience (if you wish to chat about this orother aspects about the role before you apply, feel free to contact us.)

To apply, send your CV and cover letter in word or pdf format, as attachments* to Bronte, Founding Director, via people@scandikitchen.co.uk.

First round interview 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. Don't you? Only applications that have submitted a covernote will be replied to.

Note: We do not use Ai tools for screening applications.

Pay: £65,000.00-£75,000.00 per year

Application question(s):

• Are you qualified ACCA, ACA or CIMA?
• Experience of managing people?
• Do you have experience of working with an ERP system (such as Netsuite Oracle)?
• Please confirm you are aware this role is based in NW London and that you are able to commute to the office from where you are based.
• Please remember to attach your up to date CV and cover letter as word/pdf to your application. Thank you.

Education:

• Bachelor's (preferred)

Experience:

• Finance: 5 years (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person