Senior Finance Manager - Parcels (Mat Cover) in Prescot

Want to be part of a UK hub, in a global business that is scaling rapidly, evolving fast and radically changing the decades-old delivery universe? If so, read on — we're looking for a Senior Finance Manager to join our Financial Accounting team on a fixed term basis to cover Maternity leave owning the month-end close and ledger management for one of our key UK and Ireland business divisions.

Our mission? To switch up the status quo and become the UK’s leading out-of-home business. With a fast-growing network of thousands of smart lockers, hundreds of leading retail partners and the launch of our transformative Send service, we’re bringing freedom to anyone with a parcel.

At InPost UK, we’re building an unparalleled group of talent that’s committed to help us power our mission to reshape the way parcels move, and redefine eCommerce logistics. Our team is packed full of top-notch experts in e-commerce, technology, scale-up growth, sustainability, logistics and supply chain. We’re a passionate bunch with high ambition – we collaborate, innovate, support each other, and leave egos at the door.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Finance Manager to lead the month-end close process, deliver accurate financial reporting and develop a high-performing accounting team. This is a key leadership role responsible for ensuring the integrity of the general ledger, maintaining robust financial controls and delivering audit-ready financial information across multiple entities.

You'll work closely with Finance Business Partners, Transformation, IT and the wider finance function to continually improve processes while supporting a fast-paced, growing business.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Month-End Close & Financial Control
  • Lead the end-to-end month-end close process, ensuring an accurate, complete and timely close.
  • Prepare, review and approve journals, accruals, prepayments, provisions and re-classifications.
  • Manage a close timetable, resolving issues quickly while driving continuous improvements.
  • Act as the primary escalation point within your team for close-related queries, blockers and ledger issues — resolving these quickly to maintain timetable integrity.
  • Coordinate with the wider finance team to ensure inter-entity positions, eliminations and consolidation adjustments are correctly handled.
• Balance Sheet & Reporting
  • Own the monthly balance sheet reconciliation process, ensuring all accounts are fully reconciled and supported.
  • Maintain audit-ready reconciliation packs, resolving reconciling items promptly.
  • Oversee the production and delivery of accurate P&L, balance sheet, and cashflow statements on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
  • Lead the reporting of cashflows, ensuring all significant cash movements are properly authorised, recorded and reconciled.
  • Deliver insightful variance commentary against budget, forecast and prior year.
  • Support consolidated reporting across UK and Ireland entities.
• Audit & Systems
  • Prepare high-quality audit working papers and act as the key contact for internal and external auditors.
  • Implement audit recommendations and strengthen financial controls.
  • Ensure data integrity across Unit4 and Sage, supporting ongoing system improvements and governance.
  • Contribute to the SAP Hana migration, including testing, process mapping and go-live support.
• Leadership & Collaboration
  • Lead, coach and develop a team of qualified and part-qualified accountants.
  • Manage workload planning to ensure successful delivery during month-end, audit and year-end.
  • Work collaboratively across Finance, Finance Business Partnering, IT and Transformation to deliver consistent, high-quality financial reporting.
  • Promote best practice, continuous improvement and a culture of accountability, accuracy and teamwork.

What We're Looking For

You'll thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy solving problems and be motivated by improving both processes and performance.

Qualifications and experience:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Strong post-qualified experience within financial accounting, financial control or management accounting.
• Proven experience leading the month-end close in a multi-entity environment.
• Strong balance sheet reconciliation and financial reporting experience.
• Experience leading and developing finance teams.
• Knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Experience using Unit4, Sage or similar ERP systems is preferable.
• Experience within logistics, retail, distribution, e-commerce or another high-volume operational environment would be an asset but not a requirement.
• Exposure to finance transformation or ERP implementation projects is desirable.

Skills and competencies:

• Strong technical accounting knowledge.
• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
• Able to manage competing priorities and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Process improvement mindset with a collaborative approach.
• Calm, resilient and quality-focused under pressure.

The Inpost process:

We aim to make our recruitment process straightforward and enjoyable. If your application is shortlisted, you'll typically have an initial 20-minute conversation with our Talent Team, followed by one or two interview stages depending on the role.

At InPost, we celebrate individuality and believe our people are our greatest strength. We're committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome, valued and supported to succeed. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process or in the workplace, we'll be happy to support you. Flexible working options are available for some roles.