Finance Manager in Hook

Location: Hybrid, Hook (3 days per week office-based however this can increase during month end). Regular visits to group operational sites are also required.

Working Hours: Monday to Friday 37.5 hours per week (8:30am – 5:00pm).

Job Status: Permanent.

At cinch our mission is simple - to remove the faff from buying and owning cars, giving customers more choice, with more ease. Already the UK’s largest online used car retailer, we’re expanding our offering with an exciting roadmap of online and physical retail solutions.

What you’ll be working on:

• Reporting into the cinch Financial Controller, you will play a key part in shaping and developing cinch’s financial reporting capabilities, processes & procedures and control.
• Lead the finance team members responsible for management of cinch’s inventory of vehicles.
• Ensure that processes, procedures and transactional accounting in respect of inventory is fit for purpose and that accounting and reporting is timely and accurate.
• Overview and responsibility for end-to-end inventory balance sheet reconciliations and reviews; monitoring controls and reconciliations to ensure that underlying processes and financial reporting are well managed and tightly controlled.
• Ensure month end reporting for your areas of responsibility are error free and on time.
• Identify areas for improvement and manage the team to make them happen.
• Ensure adequate stock count instructions are in place and agreed between Finance and Operations; that stock counts proceed in line with instructions.
• Ensure that the team’s accounting for purchases of inventory from multiple sources and sales of inventory are adequate and that all transactions are recorded accurately and timely.
• Identify situations where new operational or commercial arrangements require new or changed transactional flows, designing processes to capture these, and implementing with the Finance and Ops teams.
• Have responsibility for accounting and reporting for other areas of the P&L and balance sheet.
• Period end reporting including management accounts and other deliverables for the cinch Management Team and other stakeholders.
• Oversee / perform testing of Business Central, our ERP system, following development work.
• Work with colleagues across the business to understand new products & services which are proposed.
• Work closely with Customer Experience and Product teams to ensure that operational and administrative activities which touch on finance are adequately controlled.
• Participation in ad-hoc projects.

Things we look for in you:

• Qualified accountant with substantial experience and appropriate qualifications (ACA/ACCA/CIMA).
• Track record of managing and developing finance team members.
• Strong, current technical skills.
• Passion for finding solutions to enhance performance and a background in financial control & financial reporting.
• Experience of managing complicated accounting processes and controls.
• Well-organised with excellent attention to detail and the ability to multi-task.
• Ability to take ownership of tasks and see them through to completion whilst working under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Flexible, able to work in a fast-paced environment employing pragmatism where necessary.
• Desire to improve financial and operational processes.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills.
• Experience of improving financial and operational processes.
• Articulate, persuasive, confident, possessing sound intellect; a self-starter with the ability to combine professional rigour with practical business requirements.
• Experience of Microsoft Dynamics Business Central or Navision accounting systems is preferred, but by no means essential.

cinch’s benefits programme sees that our people are supported both in and out of work. We offer:

• Competitive salaries and bonuses.
• A company pension scheme.
• An Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to trained mental health first aiders.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• And so much more!

In making the most out of a career at cinch you need to be curious, creative, and collaborative. Join us as we continue to accelerate, defy expectations, and revolutionise an entire industry.

cinch wants to help all kinds of people in the UK find and buy a car. Representation matters. Being free to be the best of who you are as you soar to professional greatness is the kind of business we commit to creating.