Financial Controller

Core3 are delighted to partner with a market leading construction company to recruit a Financial Controller in Bristol. £80,000-£90,000 and hybrid working.  

Why join our client?

Our client is a forward-looking construction company that boasts an enviable client list. The business continues to experience organic growth; coming from its superb reputation for quality. The organisation needs an experienced Financial Controller to lead the finance team and continue the high-level of management reporting.

How you’ll make an impact

Your role will be to lead, motivate and engage a finance team of three, whilst focusing on continuous improvement. You will also be a key business partner for the Directors, providing decision support across the organisation.

• Manage the core Finance team, 3 direct reports
• Oversee the firms budgeting and reforecasting process including cash flow
• Develop strong relationships with Directors and project managers, working with them to ensure their budgets are understood, owned and controlled.
• Present financial reports to the board, including evaluation and commentary on the monthly performance.
• Continuous improvement of systems & processes
• Manage the Month-end and Year-end close process.
• Manage all accounting operations
• Be responsible for the external audit process.

Why our client is excited about you

Our client is looking for an operationally focused Financial Controller who is aligned with their values and is excited by their culture. Able to hit the ground running, with a positive and driven attitude to make a real difference, you will be comfortable explaining complex financial information to non-finance stakeholders in a clear and engaging way.

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)
• An experienced people leader able to confidently engage and motivate a team
• An effective business partner who communicates confidently
• System & Process improvement experience
• Technically strong

What you’ll get in return

This amazing company offers a fantastic culture where you can really make an impact.  The benefits for this Financial Controller in Bristol are:

• £80,000-£90,000 basic salary
• Hyrbid & Flexible working
• 25 days annual leave

We invite applications from all qualified candidates who believe they meet the requirements of the role, whilst supporting and promoting equality and diversity to create an inclusive working environment for all.

If this advert sounds like it was written for you then please apply to this advert or reach out to ricahrd@core3.co.uk // 0117 213 0300. Go to www.core3.co.uk to see our full jobs listings.

Commercial Finance Business Partner

Core3 are delighted to be partnering with a pioneering engineering company to find a Commercial Finance Business Partner

Why Join our client?

This company is at the forefront of innovation in advanced materials, helping industries design and produce higher-performing, longer-lasting products with less waste. They collaborate closely with clients, bringing in experienced specialist engineers to quickly enhance materials and digital engineering capabilities, solving complex challenges efficiently. Additionally, they are pioneers in developing cutting-edge materials design and technology in the UK, fostering supply chain growth through a unique, open-access industrial test-bed.

How You’ll Make an Impact

You’ll bridge the gap between finance and other business units by analysing financial data, creating budgets and forecasts, and developing strategic plans. You’ll play a critical role in providing constructive, data-driven challenge and driving efficiency and financial outcomes.

• Financial Analysis: Analyse financial data to provide insights and recommendations.
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Develop, manage, and update budgets and financial forecasts.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with senior management to formulate and implement business strategies.
• Performance Monitoring: Track and review financial performance of various business units, identifying trends and areas for improvement.
• Cost Management: Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities and efficiency improvements.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as a liaison between the finance department and other business units, ensuring clear communication of financial information.
• Business Case Development: Support the creation of business cases for new projects or investments with financial analysis and insights.
• Risk Management: Identify financial risks and develop strategies to mitigate them.
• Decision Support: Provide financial input and analysis to support key business decisions.
• Process Improvement: Continuously seek opportunities to improve financial processes and systems to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Reporting: Prepare and present detailed financial reports to stakeholders.

Why We’re Excited About You

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified.
• Demonstrable experience of working in a highly commercial role
• Superb communication skills

What You’ll Get in Return

• £65,000 basic salary

Finance Assistant

Core 3 is thrilled to be recruiting for a Finance Assistant for a super exciting brand based in North Bristol.

Why join our client?

Our client is known for their dynamic work environment and offers an excellent opportunity for personal and professional growth.

Duties include:

• Sales Invoices Processing: Accurately process sales invoices, ensuring all transactions are recorded and billed correctly.
• Purchase Invoices Processing: Manage the processing of purchase invoices, including verifying, coding, and posting to the appropriate accounts.
• Accounts Payable and Receivable: Assist in managing accounts payable and receivable processes, ensuring timely and accurate payments and collections.
• Reconciliation: Perform regular reconciliations of bank statements, credit card accounts, and other financial records.
• Expense Tracking: Monitor and track company expenses, ensuring compliance with budgetary guidelines and company policies.
• Transactional Accounting: Handle day-to-day transactional accounting tasks, including data entry, maintaining accurate financial records, and ensuring compliance with accounting standards and company policy.
• Audit Support: Assist in internal and external audits by providing necessary documentation and information.
• Administrative Support: Provide general administrative support to the finance team.

Why we’re excited about you

You will excel as a confident and skilled multitasker, with a track record of meeting deadlines and efficiently handling workloads. Being a strong team player is essential, willing to dive in and assist wherever needed.

• Ideally part AAT qualified, with ambitions for further studies.
• Ideally 3+ years of experience in a finance or accounting role.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and SharePoint.
• Ideally knowledge of SAGE50.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management abilities.
• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.

What you’ll get in return

• - Study support for AAT
• - 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

We welcome applications from all qualified candidates who believe they meet the requirements of the role. We support and promote equality and diversity to create an inclusive working environment for all.

If this advert resonates with you, please apply directly or reach out to Lewis at Lewis@core3.co.uk or call 0117 213 0300.

Demand for data centres across EMEA is infinite. 6 live, building antoher 20 across EME.A. huge Capex - £1.6bn this year. Digital Bridge PE firm. Vantage North Amercial / APAC - all backed by digital bridge. 

3 years ago finance team 3. now 25. A couple of key roles in Germany -  number of junior roles in Newport - AP, fin ass. a couple more to come - payroll, MA. Cover.

Payroll accountant - need to write spec - new role. will need help. niche role - broad experience. 

they use 4-5 agencies - chaotic. not getting brilliant service - not exclusive. been too busy to do it properly. not in a brilliant position in terms of quality of CVs. not been able to respond too quickly. 

Role-by-role basis can go exclusive - not locking down whole function due to volume. Uses RH - charlotte allen. Kerry from now careers. prev MP, Vargo - not working too well. know type of candidate they like. charlotte gettng frutstrated - 4 stages for any role. battling with HR to improve. 

Move to more of a panel. 1st step - get onboarded onto system. send forms to complete. then meet up re payroll accountant role. 

Benchmark - more of a payroll accountant. payroll outsourced - owned by HR - no finance involvement - now more finance side - control of payroll process across EMEA. not dealiing with employee queries tcv. use AVP to process - recs, control, reviews, audits, compliance. More common role in the US. 

Doesnt need to be payroll - more recs, controling, doesnt need to understand technicalities of payroll. Any accountant could do it. Scope is narrow. send north american spec. 

Hybrid - flex - not too prescriptive. most to 3 in / 2 from home. flex if need to be WFH for a week. 

commercials etc arent well controlled. 

Senior FP&A Analyst (Revenue)

Core3 are delighted to partner with a fast growth, Private Equity backed hospitality business to appoint a Senior FP&A Analyst on a hybrid contract offering £85,000-£95,000 + 15% Bonus.

Why join our client?

Our client is a fast growth global hospitality business based in the greater London area, currently with less than 500 employees but huge ambition and already a global footprint (UK, Europe and US).

Our client is in scaleup mode with a high pedigree Private Equity partnership and very impressive revenue growth.

The company are big advocates of an inclusive culture and ensure that both personal and professional development is on offer at all levels in the business.

How you’ll make an impact

Our client is looking for a Senior Finance Analyst with “a thirst for data”.

An FP&A Analyst who can get the right insight/story from large data sets and take that to the commercial teams (think sales, digital marketing and offline marketing) and make the appropriate changes happen. You will need to roll up your sleeves, build the models, test the hypothesis AND drive that change as well.

This role is about best-practice top line revenue reporting and forecasting. There are three parts to this role:

• Standard monthly reporting; actuals vs business plan
• Taking insight from that to feed into forecast to improve accuracy
• Get really into the value-add – better understand and shape their pricing strategy and how to optimise profitability. Producing ad hoc business cases and repeatable templates for decision models and visualisation of data through Power BI.

Why our client is excited about you

Our client is looking for someone with a strong academic background and sess themselves as a hybrid between finance and tech (data).

You could come from the hospitality industry, FP&A in another B2C business, a commercial role in the Big 4, an Investment Banking or Private Equity role. It’s all about the experience you have interpreting data and using visualisation tools and infographics to communicate that data to drive results.

• Experience interpreting large data sets
• Proven track record partnering Revenue and Commercial teams in a B2C environment
• High proficiency with data visualisation tools (likely Power BI, Tableau, Cognos TM1)
• Financial literacy – whether as an Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or Senior Data Analyst embedded in, or working with the finance team/function
• Strong interpersonal skills – you will be creating the insight/dashboards AND driving the change

What you’ll get in return

My client has created an incredible culture. Their whole ethos is redefining hospitality and creating amazing, inclusive spaces to work, stay and socialise.

Their culture is about being honest and transparent, so trust is paramount, and to me it’s the best of both worlds; a PE-backed environment on a fast-growth trajectory but the feel of a company that hasn’t forgotten its Purpose and puts people, impact and sustainability at its core.

• £85,000-£95,000
• 15% Bonus
• Excellent Benefits
• Hybrid & Flexible working options.
• Location – Central London (with the option to work from their 10+ London sites)  

We invite applications from all qualified candidates who believe they meet the requirements of the role, whilst supporting and promoting equality and diversity to create an inclusive working environment for all.

Please apply to this advert or send your CV direct to andrew@core3.co.uk

Financial Reporting Manager

Core3 are delighted to partner with a purpose driven business based in central Bristol to recruit a Financial Reporting Manager. £60,000-£65,000 + up to 25% bonus. Hybrid working 

Why join our client?

This is a great opportunity for an ambitious individual to join a great a purpose driven business that are currently going through a very positive finance restructure.

How you’ll make an impact

Reporting to the Head of Finance, the financial reporting manager will provide the accurate preparation of statutory financial statements, disclosures and supplementary commentaries for the business including the consolidation of subsidiaries and to have responsibility of the taxation requirements of the business.

• Prepare the consolidated statutory financial statements.
• Ensure full disclosure notes and supplementary commentaries are produced for all accounts.
• Advise on accounting treatment and disclosures to audit standard under FRS102 (UK GAAP).
• Review the monthly balance sheet reconciliations to ensure appropriate records are kept for the annual audit of accounts.
• Work with the finance team to ensure appropriately controlled processes are in place for Audit approval.
• Maintain relationships with key external parties i.e. Auditors, Tax Accountants, banking, legal etc.
• Responsibility of taxation requirements of the business, communicating and coordinating with tax advisers where necessary.
• implementation of Solvency II reporting and disclosure requirements.
• Support the maintenance of a robust financial internal control framework.
• Advising and maintenance of Financial Controls within Finance Processes
• Prepare the NFFS and NFSS Accounts on an annual basis ready for consolidation into the group accounts and for audit.
• Review monthly staff and pension payrolls
• Undertake regulatory and industry required reporting requirements i.e. RMAR, PRA, FCA, AFM etc.
• Ensure appropriate financial procedures, policies and controls are in place and effectively implemented to secure the assets of the business.
• Demonstrate the Society’s values in dealings with colleagues and customers paying particular attention to the principles of Consumer Duty and acting with integrity.

Why we’re excited about you

Our client is very proud of their culture, and this role is suited to someone who enjoys interaction with other people, is down to earth, driven, and genuinely cares about the quality of their work. 

• ACA or ACCA qualified
• Demonstration of strong influencing skills and in managing relationships.
• Management skills to lead and inspire colleagues.
• Organisation and planning

What you’ll get in return

• £60,000 - £65,000 basic salary.
• 18% - 25% Bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Great pension, health & wellbeing scheme  

We invite applications from all qualified candidates who believe they meet the requirements of the role, whilst supporting and promoting equality and diversity to create an inclusive working environment for all.

If this advert sounds like it was written for you then please apply to this advert or reach out to louis@core3.co.uk // 0117 213 0300. Go to www.core3.co.uk to see our full jobs listings

Senior Management Accountant

Core3 are delighted to be recruiting for a Senior Management Accountant to join a Wealth Management business based in Central Bristol - Hybrid working with 2 days a week in the office.

Why join our client?

Our client is extremely proud of their services to both long-standing and new customers across all business sectors.

How you'll make an impact?

The successful candidate will be Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the Management Accountant supports the production of management, statutory and regulatory reporting requirements in addition to delivering change projects identified by the finance department

• Analysing and modelling of revenue streams and office P&Ls
• Preparation of finance business partnering packs, including analysis of expenses.
• Assisting in the preparation of the annual budget and forecasting across Atomos
• Drive improvements to existing processes.
• Co-preparation of Board and management reports.
• Prepare statutory accounts in line with FRS 102 requirements.
• Assist with interim and full-year external audit queries, including preparing technical accounting papers.
• Preparation of regulatory (FCA) submissions
• Processing journal entries into the general ledger including revenue, accruals prepayments and any other journals required to support the Group Financial Controller in the month end process.
• Preparing monthly balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring all balances are accurate and valid.
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Why our Client is excited about you

• Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA or ACCA)
• Intermediate Excel skills - e.g. Pivot tables, VLookups.
• Self-starter who can demonstrate initiative, with the ability to prioritise multiple deliverables.
• An ability to communicate at all levels and develop good working
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What you'll get in return

With a warm family feel company culture, the client offers their team an excellent social culture and collaborative culture with a business that genuinely cares about their people.

• £50,000-£55,000 basic salary
• Competitive Pension Scheme
• 26 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Assurance (4x)
• Group Income Protection
• Work From Anywhere in the UK or Europe for up to 4 week

If this advert sounds like it was written for you then please apply to this advert or reach out to louis@core3.co.uk // 0117 213

Finance Administrator

Core 3 is thrilled to be recruiting for a Finance Administrator for a super exciting brand based in North Bristol.

Why join our client?

Our client is known for their dynamic work environment and offers an excellent opportunity for personal and professional growth.

Duties include:

• Providing excellent customer service (internally and externally) using our First Line Support model where implemented.
• Processing all transactional activities through the relevant workflow tool.
• Ensuring compliance with appropriate processes and controls, supporting the team to keep documentation up to date.
• Ensuring effective escalation for non-standard requests or issues.
• Accurately working within agreed SLAs on a right-first-time basis.
• Working with high levels of integrity and confidentiality.
• Keeping appropriate records to enable correct reporting.
• Working as part of a team to achieve targets.
• Positively supporting a team and department in change and innovation.

Why we’re excited about you

You will excel as a confident and skilled multitasker, with a track record of meeting deadlines and efficiently handling workloads. Being a strong team player is essential, willing to dive in and assist wherever needed.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the drive and flexibility to support others.
• Basic Microsoft Office skills (especially Excel).
• Excellent data entry skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

What you’ll get in return

• Salary ranging from £25,000.
• Annual Bonus.
• Hybrid working.

We welcome applications from all qualified candidates who believe they meet the requirements of the role. We support and promote equality and diversity to create an inclusive working environment for all.

If this advert resonates with you, please apply directly or reach out to Lewis at lewis@core3.co.uk or call 0117 213 0300.