Senior Finance Manager in Rochdale

High‑growth private‑equity backed business operating across the UK, Europe and the US is looking for a Senior Finance Manager. With a significant programme of M&A activity planned over the next twelve months, this is a genuine opportunity to join at the right moment when the work is interesting, the pace is real and the scope to grow with the business is tangible. This role suits a progressive candidate with a vision of eventually becoming a Group Financial Controller and beyond. There are few roles in the North Manchester area that can offer this level of exposure.

What’s on offer:

• Salary of £60,000 – £65,000 depending on experience
• Hybrid Working: 3 days office, 2 days WFH
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• Buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday per year
• Birthday leave: an extra day off on your birthday
• Life assurance at 4x salary
• Income protection paying up to 75% of salary
• Employee Assistance Programme with confidential counselling and wellbeing support
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Cycle to Work scheme (via Halfords, up to £2,000)
• Scottish Widows pension scheme

Based close to Rochdale, Greater Manchester with onsite parking, this role sits at the heart of the finance function, reporting to the Group Financial Controller and taking ownership of group financial reporting across four US entities, alongside the full range of month‑end, budgeting, statutory and cashflow responsibilities.

What the role involves:

• You’ll lead the preparation of annual budgets and periodic reforecasts, own cashflow forecasting and reporting, and support month‑end and year‑end close.
• You’ll also contribute to statutory accounts and audit preparation.
• Given the acquisition pipeline, there’s meaningful involvement in integration work helping bring new entities into the fold cleanly and consistently.
• This is a business‑partnering role. You’ll work alongside finance and non‑finance stakeholders, liaise with external auditors, tax advisors and banking partners, and support ongoing improvements to systems and internal controls.
• You’ll also have direct line management responsibility for two members of the finance team, so the ability to lead, develop, and get the best out of people matters as much as the technical toolkit.

What they’re looking for:

• A qualified accountant ACA, ACCA or CIMA with a solid technical foundation and a track record of producing management accounts to a high standard.
• Comfortable in a multi‑currency environment.
• Confident with complex Excel, potentially advanced models.
• Experienced leading a small team.
• Exposure to PE‑backed or fast‑growth businesses is a genuine advantage, as is hands‑on M&A integration experience.
• Experience working across UK and US reporting is an advantage.

The bottom line:

This role is rarely available at this level in this part of the world and offers a proper finance position with real commercial breadth in a business that’s genuinely going places.