Finance Manager- Qualified

Finance Manager- qualified

Based: Bolton- with hybrid working, 2 days working from the office

Salary: circa £50,000- £60,000 DOE

Our client is a PE backed, UK leading tech/services business looking for an experienced Accountant to join the team. The business has grown rapidly over the last few years and are now looking for a self-sufficient, qualified Accountant to take responsibility for the end-to-end finance function across a number of entities. Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the role will involve producing monthly managements accounts, producing & presenting all commercial business reporting including executive & board reports, strong business partnering and accurate budgeting & forecasting.

Role:

• Ownership of full financial responsibilities across a number of entities within a larger Group
• Timely and accurate preparation of monthly management accounts with relevant commentary and full variance analysis to budget and prior periods
• Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow budgeting and forecasting. Complete ownership of delivering annual budgets and bi-annual reforecasting, whilst engaging relevant stakeholders for inputs
• Building, maintaining, and influencing strong relationships with select stakeholders and budget holders, acting as the link with colleagues, and ensuring that variances to forecasts and budgets are reported and understood
• Commercial support for strong decision making to senior leadership
• Building models to assess new commercial opportunities and assess the ROI of existing business
• Managing and delivering sustainable cost saving targets and initiatives, profit improvements and revenue enhancements
• Supporting stakeholders with detailed revenue, profitability, cost & all other analysis and identifying risks & opportunities and appropriate recommendations to the business
• Performing monthly closing procedures in required time frame, including query resolution and variance analysis
• Management of weekly payment runs across several entities and currencies
• Dealing with foreign entities including statutory accounts and banking
• Overview of monthly payroll processing and analysis
• Balance sheet & intercompany account reconciliations and quarterly VAT Returns
• Improving finance processes through automation and other process improvements
• Ad-hoc project work alongside the Group FC and CFO

Experience/ skills/ attributes:

• ACCA/CIMA/ACA qualified
• Experience managing the full scope of a finance function
• Commercial agility and strong commercial acumen
• Ability to challenge & improve processes & procedures and an attitude for continuous improvement
• Strong Power Query skills are highly advantageous
• Excellent MS excel skills including but not limited to Vlookups, pivots, sumifs, index-match etc.
• Ability to build strong and influential working relationships

If you are looking to work within a fantastic business and team, where you can really take ownership and add value, please send a copy of your CV for immediate consideration.