Financial Controller

Job Description

Who are Locate a Locum?

Locate a Locum provides a workforce management solution for the healthcare industry.

Our app and website is used by over 35,000 healthcare professionals daily, including pharmacy and optometry teams. Our software has been successfully integrated into the UK’s largest healthcare organisations.

Our mission…is to mobilise the world’s healthcare workforce. We do this by ensuring healthcare organisations have the right person, in the right place at the right time.

About this role We’re looking for a commercially focused Financial controller that will take responsibility for the finance function within our business.

This is a part time opportunity (2 or 3 days per week). Applications from freelancers will also be considered.

We are currently supported by an internal bookkeeper who performs transactional bookkeeping, bank reconciliations, invoicing, VAT returns and any debtors collection and an external accountant provides support on preparing the monthly management accountants and preparing the annual financial statements.

Job Requirements

Experience you’ll need to be successful in this role

• Qualified with ACA / ACMA/ ACCA or similar level
• Experience of working with another business is a similar capacity
• Excellent leadership skills
• Experience working within tech is a bonus

Qualities you’ll need to be happy in this role

• Commercially astute. We are looking for someone who is commercially aware, shows initiative and is highly organised
• Inquisitive in nature, to be successful you must have a growth mindset
• Proactive and comfortable in the unknown
• Comfortable multi-tasking
• Enjoy managing a busy workload
• Comfortable working as part of a busy leadership team & individually

What you can expect from us

• Competitive remuneration and benefits including 35 days pto per annum
• A worklife balance that suits you - in a recent engagement survey 93% of employees at LAL positively commented on their work life blend
• Flexible hybrid working, you can work from home or our office in Belfast
• Join a passionate successful company with a supportive culture
• You will have the autonomy to help shape the future success of Locate a Locum.

Job Duties

Responsibilities Reporting directly to the CEO the successful candidate will have responsibility for:

• Budgeting and Planning: Ability to prepare meaningful analysis for strategic decisions and model financial scenarios
• Manage KPI reporting across the Business to drive decision-making
• Financial analysis and modelling, help us to identify financial levers and formulate growth strategies through market segmentation, pricing, churn analysis and understanding of profitability
• Understand current performance and the strategy map, and make recommendations that help achieve company goals.
• Leading process Implementation: Develop and follow through with processes that will streamline operations

Contact

We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their sex; religious or similar philosophical belief; political opinion; race; age; sexual orientation; or, whether they are married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled; or whether they have undergone, are undergoing or intend to undergo gender reassignment.