Finance Manager - Asset Finance Company - Up to £80,000 + Bonus + Benefits - Coventry

Our client is a highly successful global asset finance company with offices near Coventry. They are now recruiting for a fully qualified (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) Finance Manager to lead a Finance team of 5, managing the Finance function in all aspects of business and financial planning, financial reporting and control, and project management, ensuring alignment with finance and control policies to enable effective and efficient organisational leadership and optimise business results.

This role will have 2 core elements:

• To manage, motivate and develop the Finance team;
• To provide finance business partnering services to the senior management team, various departments (i.e., Sales, Risk, etc.), and the company’s joint venture partner.

Rather than a traditional back office accountant, they need someone who is quite dynamic to produce high-quality and on-time reporting, provide value-add analysis to key stakeholders, motivate and lead the Finance team, work between different systems and processes, and build a bridge between the joint venture businesses.

They offer hybrid working (initial 3 months, 3 days a week and after the first 3 months, 2 days a week) and wider career opportunities could be progress and work for the JV partner or the parent financial services group.

Profile Criteria:

• University degree educated desirable
• Minimum five years’ experience (post-professional qualification), the more the better
• Commercial finance business partnering experience essential
• JV accounting experience
• Experience of working in asset finance advantageous (but not essential)
• Experience of working within a large multinational business an advantage (but not essential)

Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Business strategy and planning: Contribute to the formulation of the strategy and business plan of the organisation and derive a plan for own department, to optimise country organisation strategy and the business plan. Plan, organise, co-ordinate and support the business and financial planning and budgeting process, to provide a basis for sound decision making on objectives and to review realisation of those.
• Control: Optimise and implement finance & control policies and tools and advise on subsequent matters, compliant with corporate policies and regulations, to support and guide country organisation towards effective and efficient strategy/business plan implementation and goal realisation.
• Reporting: Ensure all financial, control and treasury reporting are completed accurately and timely, in line with the company’s statutory reporting deadlines, in order to keep a complete and actual overview on the business results.
• Organisation and management: Plan, structure, organise, manage, and control the Finance organisation, processes, staff, and business partners, compliant with corporate policies, in such a way that the Finance plan and objectives are achieved.
• Compliance: Control and check all financial activities to be compliant with local fiscal and statutory reporting requirements and corporate rules and regulations.
• Process management: Ensure that all financial procedures and processes are up to date and initiate adjustments, if necessary, in line with internal rules and regulations, to realise effective and efficient procedures and processes.