Marc Daniels are recruiting for a Finance Manager to join a large, established organisation based in the Berkshire area.
This is a permanent opportunity offering hybrid working and flexible start/finish times.
This is a broad Finance Manager role combining financial reporting and control with FP&A, budgeting, forecasting and business partnering. The successful candidate will take significant ownership of month-end and technical accounting while also working closely with stakeholders to provide financial insight, challenge performance and support planning and decision-making.
The FP&A element of the position is expected to increase further over time, making this an excellent opportunity for someone looking to broaden their commercial finance exposure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Take ownership of the month-end close, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting
- Oversee accounting across revenue, costs, inventory, provisions and the balance sheet
- Ensure appropriate application of accounting standards, including IFRS 15 and IFRS 16
- Review journals, reconciliations and balance sheet substantiation, maintaining strong financial controls
- Partner with FP&A and wider business teams to provide financial analysis, insight and decision support
- Support the budgeting and forecasting process, working with stakeholders to develop robust and accurate plans
- Review budgets and forecasts, challenging assumptions and identifying risks and opportunities
- Analyse actual performance against budget and forecast, identifying key drivers and root causes of variances
- Help improve forecasting accuracy and enhance financial understanding across the business
- Support the development of improved budgeting methodologies, reporting and performance tracking
- Work closely with shared service teams to ensure accurate and timely delivery of finance activities
- Drive continuous improvement across reporting, data quality, controls and finance processes
- Support audit, risk, governance and compliance activities
- Build strong relationships with finance and non-finance stakeholders, acting as a trusted finance partner
- Manage, coach and develop members of the finance team
The successful candidate will:
- Be a qualified accountant - ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
- Have strong experience across financial reporting, month-end and financial control
- Possess a good working knowledge of IFRS
- Have experience of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and financial planning
- Be comfortable partnering with stakeholders and challenging financial assumptions
- Have strong analytical skills with the ability to turn financial information into meaningful insight
- Have experience of technical accounting and balance sheet ownership
- Ideally have experience working with a finance shared service centre
- Have exposure to audit, controls, risk and compliance
- Have previous experience managing and developing team members
- Demonstrate a track record of improving finance processes and controls
Experience within a large, international or multi-entity organisation would be advantageous, as would exposure to systems such as SAP S/4HANA, Hyperion or Trintech Cadency.
This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified accountant looking for a genuinely broad Finance Manager position, offering a strong combination of financial control, technical accounting, FP&A, business partnering and team leadership.
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