Finance Manager

Month End Management Accounts

• Produce accurate and timely monthly Management Accounts for various stakeholders across the Group, providing supplementary supporting analysis on any variances to budget/forecast and ensuring key stakeholders are effectively supported in their business decisions
• Conduct detailed reviews of balances as a control to ensure the delivery of accurate monthly accounts
• Strong understanding of the key drivers of margins and costs
• Investigate and explain major variances to budget, forecast and last year and present findings to the Managing Director as well as Group Senior Finance partners
• Support the external audit and year-end reporting cycle

Balance Sheet Reconciliation

• Deliver a comprehensive set of balance sheet recs within strict deadlines
• Produce lead schedules to support balances for the more complex balance sheet areas, and support junior team members in completing reconciliations
• Understand what balance represent and effectively explain schedules, producing and providing supporting documentation where appropriate

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Prepare robust budgets and forecasts in line with Company and Group requirements
• Provide early warning on risks or opportunities to achievement of budgets and forecasts
• Effectively explain movements on prior forecasts and provide supporting documentation for inputs wherever needed
• Support function leads across the business in budgeting and managing their own cost centres
• Support in the weekly trading reporting of commercial performance across the business
• Support the Managing Director on all budgeting and forecasting plans and in developing strategic plans

Cash Flow Management

• Own and lead the ongoing cash flow management for the Company
• Responsible for cash control, including forecasting operational cash flow movements
• Accurate and timely reporting on actuals vs forecast
• Lead working capital management and liquidity risk management
• Work with colleagues at a Group level to feed into all Group reporting requirements