Group Finance Manager

Group Finance Manager role, responsible for accounts of 4 trading business and entities, as well as managerial responsibilities.

Client Details

Rapidly growing business within the professional/business services sector.

Description

• Preparation of monthly and weekly MI and management accounts in accordance with deadlines. Setting, managing, and monitoring compliance and streamlining processes (including making best use of systems and reducing manual processes)
• Development of monthly consolidated management accounts suite including profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow
• Development and progression of weekly and monthly cash flow forecasting and treasury processes
• Ensure up to date with UK GAAP to lead the annual statutory accounts process, developing monthly working paper files and reconciliations to ensure readiness for implementation of external audit process from 2021-22 onwards
• Decision support, analysis and modelling as required
• Support and participate in the monthly SMT Finance Review meeting processes
• Manage the annual budget process
• Support financial integration of acquisitions and strategic projects
• Preparation of year end statutory accounts and simple corporation tax computations
• Liaison and co-ordination with Tax Advisers on more complex matters
• Manage monthly, quarterly VAT/PAYE/CIS and other similar tax return routines
• Day-to-day management of development of multi-site personnel, with matrix elements, encompassing trainee professional level and also transactional processing staff - 9+ separate statutory entities using Sage 50

Profile

• To be considered for this exceptional opportunity you will be a qualified Accountant with management experience, hands on accounting skills and a highly commercial and flexible outlook that will allow you to succeed in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment
• You will have high levels of drive and ambition and a genuine desire to stretch yourself by stepping out of your comfort zone in order to deliver exceptional results
• You will be a well-rounded individual, capable of working with people at all levels within an organisation and will be able to build strong relationships with external parties
• Experience of training and developing junior members of the team
• Able to make a remarkable first-time impression and have immediate impact - confident but not arrogant
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Excellent analytical and numerical abilities
• Exceptional organisational skills
• You will be a forward-thinking individual with strong planning capability
• Extensive working knowledge of computer packages - MS Office
• Strong attention to detail and deadlines
• Ability to multitask and manage parallel workstreams
• Strong Excel skills - pivot tables/lookups etc.
• Financial modelling experience or willingness to learn
• Ability to be hands on - role is a blend of doing/planning/managing/reviewing

Job Offer

• Salary- £40,000-£50,000 dependent on experience
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and your birthday off!
• Plenty of room for progression and growth