About the Company:
Headquartered in Scotland with investment from overseas sources, Emtelle is a British manufacturing success story that has consistently sat at the cutting edge of manufacturing innovation and excellence. The UK is the primary revenue engine for Emtelle, building on a 20-year legacy of consistent high-quality solution delivery to major telecoms providers such as BT and Virgin Media. Emtelle will continue to grow and innovate in the UK, however the business has pursued an aggressive international M&A and direct investment programme which is now well established and making significant in-roads in global markets. Emtelle UK remains the largest component of the Group, with turnover more than doubling in the last five years. As the business continues to grow its operations globally and its reach by entering into new markets and new territories, it is critical the right structure is in place in each location of the Group to drive performance and support the Senior Management Team in delivering the strategy and objectives.
About the Role:
Emtelle is looking to add to the existing strength of the Finance Leadership Team with the appointment of a highly technical and commercially astute UK Finance Director (UK FD). As a key member of the UK regional management team, the successful candidate will embed themselves into the team to drive business performance through effective leadership and interpretation of the results.
Responsibilities:
- Leadership, development and mentoring of the UK Finance team to become extremely high performing
- Further develop the robust controls framework and month-end processes, producing high quality management information and commentary
- Provide insightful analysis to explain variances to budget/forecast, informing key actions and decision making
- Work closely with the Group Financial Controller to ensure regulatory requirements are met for annual reporting and compliance
- Regularly review and design internal controls to mitigate financial risk
- Develop and improve ERP system and standard costing systems to add value across all operations
- Responsibility for regulatory compliance including annual audit, statutory accounts for UK entities and tax compliance
- Contributing strongly to key decisions of the Senior Management Team across all aspects of the business
Qualifications:
The UK FD will be a fully qualified accountant, who is driven, ambitious, and looking to add value in a successful, growing business. Experience within, and a thorough understanding of, the manufacturing industry will be critical.
If of initial interest, please get in touch with Ali Shaw [email protected] or Kirsty Mclardy [email protected] at Livingston James, our retained advisors. Any applications or third party introductions to Emtelle will be sent on to Livingston James for consideration.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Emtelle is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.