Finance Manager

A great opportunity to obtain commercial exposure, the Finance manager role offers fantastic career progression and benefits. With a focus on finance management and monthly reporting, it will also have a fairly large commercial aspect to it.

Client Details

My client is one of the UK's largest and most well known business services providers. Operating across a wide range of disciplines and sectors, they are looking to take on an ambitious Finance Manager for their Local Government finance function in Barnet, London. Offering global exposure at a commercial level, this is a truly exciting role, and one that can offer unrivalled career progression.

Description

The finance manager will be responsible for the running of the day-to-day finance function out of the Barnet office in London. The responsibilities will include:

- Monthly reporting

- Pushing service line reviews every month

- Overlooking forecasts, and ensuring they are realistic

- Review of WIP and debt, and completion of income and recover-ability

- Assessment and management of risk, both for the business and for finances

- Management of the annual process surrounding business planning and the communication of these plans to the wider group

- Supporting, training and guiding profit centre managements around financial matters

- Processing invoices, both accounts receivable and payable

- Producing commercial feedback for the business in the form of contract lifetime forecasts

Profile

The successful candidate for this role will need to have the following:

- ACCA/CIMA qualification

- The drive and know how to take ownership of processes within the finance function

- The ability to work independently

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills - must be able to 'tell the story behind the numbers' to stakeholders who lie outside the finance team

- A decent know-how of Excel

- 'Bigger picture' mindset, as well as an attention to detail

- A truly hands on approach

- Experience with SAP would be helpful, but not necessary

Job Offer

A wide range of benefits are up for grabs with this role:

- £60,000 base salary

- Company matched pension scheme

- Voluntary benefits including life assurance

- The ability to purchase extra days holiday on top of the regular amount

- Health & well being, leisure and retail discounts

- Access to a wide-reaching network of like minded, innovative professionals across the country

- The opportunity to develop and grow with the company