Director of Finance - Operations

SRT Marine Systems PLC • Permanent • Remote (Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom) • £70k - £120k / year • 15h ago

SRT Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a market leader in the domain of international marine surveillance technology and systems. We are a respected, established, and an ambitious multi-national company headquartered in the UK with a global customer base.

The company has a worldwide impact in the marine sector by leading the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies "MDA", products, and systems that significantly enhance security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. Our customers are global and range from the largest national coast guards to individual vessel owners.

SRT is an exciting company where high-quality results are rewarded. We are ambitious and constantly seek to innovate in order to deliver better products and services to our customers. We strive to make SRT a rewarding and challenging place to work, where talented, hard-working individuals have the opportunity to make a real impact across the safety and security in the maritime and marine industry.

Role overview of our Director of Finance - Operations

This is a senior role with significant responsibilities, reporting directly into the Delivery Director with a dotted line into the group CFO. This role is to lead the financial management of our system projects. The position of Director of Finance - Operations is a hands on role where you will be working within the Project Management Office Team, to ensure that system deployment projects are robustly budgeted and costs are controlled and minimised as executed. Our system projects vary in size from $2m to over $300m and more in the future. Each project is a complex mix of civil infrastructure building, technology and services deployment, and requires pro-active management as decisions are considered and made. You will be ultimately responsible for ensuring that the project execution teams and their respective project directors have full project P&L and Cash Flow visibility in real time, and to pro-actively work with them to help minimise cost and plan cash flow.

The role of Director of Finance - Operations role is based from our Bristol office with some flexibility for Hybrid working.

Responsibilities - Director of Finance - Operations (not exhaustive):

Maintaining cost budgets and forecasts for each project
Ensuring project teams understand the cost implications of decisions and actively assisting them to optimise cost
Maintaining project cash flows
Actively highlighting risks and suggesting mitigation actions
Liaising with customers and suppliers in regards to payment terms and control
Preparing and managing milestone and invoicing documentation
Liaising with foreign tax and regulatory authorities

Skills & Experience - Director of Finance - Operations (not exhaustive):

You will have extensive experience in a similar project and cost accounting role and have formal accounting qualifications, with strong experience of working at a senior level in a business
Pro-active & inquisitive by nature with an absolute attention to detail and accuracy
Proven and strong experience of cost and management accounting in a commercial, engineering, heavy manufacturing or industrial setting
Solid knowledge and understanding of computer based accounting, cost control systems, accounting systems and excel
Excellent communication and presentation skills
An innate ability to understand the operations behind the numbers and a pragmatic approach to problem solving
Experience of liaising with auditors
Appreciation of cultural differences in overseas territories and ability to communicate well with customers and advisors overseas
International Financial experience would prove to be highly beneficial in the role, with working knowledge of various currencies

Benefits of the Director of Finance - Operations

Highly Competitive Salary
Career development opportunities
Company "Get to know you" days

Please note

This role may require occasional overseas travel as required by the business

SRT Marine Systems plc are an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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