Finance Manager - 18 Month FTC in Deeside

We’re on a mission to save our users as much money as possible. Through Moneysupermarket.com, MoneySavingExpert & Quidco we reach more than 24 million visitors per month, helping UK households save over £2bn each year. We’ve got big plans and are looking for a Finance Manager to join our Transactional Finance team, following recent investment in a Finance & HR system (Workday), together with a Planning and Forecasting system, we are looking to drive our output to be a centre of excellence in producing timely, relevant and reliable information to colleagues around the Group.

This is a great opportunity to join the team and experience working as a Finance Manager as well as supporting on a new project (Project Gemini). The objective of this project is to review and improve our systems and processes by automating manual processes and streamlining our data to enable the team to have more time for insight and analysis.

Key Responsibilities

• Management and financial accounts/reporting: Production of monthly management and financial accounts packs to include analysis and commentary on all areas of the P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash flow. Control and reporting of Capex spend. Ensure that all processes, procedures and controls have been applied, including the maintenance/development/improvement of internal controls reporting and all associated documentation. Ensure all Balance Sheet reconciliations are prepared, reviewed and any issues dealt with promptly.
• Statutory reporting: Production of Group consolidated and individual statutory accounts and drafting of associated press releases, presentation materials, Annual Report, Audit Committee papers etc. Lead contact for external auditors. Management of the half year, year end and subsidiary accounts audits. Review and analysis of accounting regulation changes and preparation of technical papers to propose and support accounting treatments.
• Treasury: Maintenance and development of detailed cash flow forecasting, tied in with the quarterly re-forecasting process. Reporting and management of cash balances, including recommending taking mitigating actions as necessary. Loan drawdown/repayment monitoring. Bank covenant monitoring and reporting.
• Taxes: Preparation, review and delivery of corporate and deferred tax calculations for statutory reporting. Responsible for all returns and payments, including corporate tax and VAT, being made on accurate/timely basis. Responsible for maintaining and developing in-house expertise and awareness through training sessions, training materials etc.
• Projects/Systems: Working with the Systems team to continually develop our use of Board and Workday functionality and continue to migrate away from Excel based inputs/outputs whilst constantly seeking to maintain and improve the control environment. Key role for any Workday integrations including project managing, liaising with different teams across the business and managing expectations of local finance teams whilst ensuring reporting is delivered accurately/on a timely basis.
• Project Gemini: Project Gemini objective is to deliver a new operating model through data, process, and reporting optimisations to move away from time-intensive manual processes. Deliver standardised automated forecasting, enhanced data insights and self-serve reporting for the business, as well as end-to-end process optimisation on core finance processes with clear hand-offs agreed. There are several workstreams and phases within the project therefore you will be expected to support on this as required.

What do you need to excel in this role?

• Accounting qualification with the expectation, given the focus on statutory and technical reporting, of ACA or ACCA.
• Strong accounting and tax technical knowledge, including IFRS, UK GAAP, Corporation Tax, VAT and PAYE.
• Experience of year end Group reporting process from production of Audit Committee papers through to delivery of Annual Report and associated materials.
• Experience in systems, controls and process improvements.
• Ability to review and analyse data or complex technical accounting issues, drawing out key matters of significance and interpret them in written or verbal communications to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• The ability to form close working relationships with management, to be able to communicate at their level, understand their requirements, gain their trust and influence them where vital.
• An understanding of the key drivers of the Moneysupermarket business model and how developments or changes could impact from an accounting and tax perspective.
• Proactive demeanour with the ability to offer constructive advice or solutions.
• The ability to motivate and lead, with particular emphasis on coaching/development and fostering a culture of constant improvement and review of output.
• Insists on accuracy and self-checking by team members and a culture of review.

Why us?

Our benefits include up to 30 days holiday, a bonus, enhanced parental leave, and tools that empower our supportive culture. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We’re an inclusive, anti-racist and equal opportunity employer that values diversity. This means we respect and embrace differences in gender identity, race, ethnic origin, sexual expression and orientation, religion and faith, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, social background, education and way of thinking. We’re a place where you can be you.

Our customers and users come from different backgrounds, as do our colleagues. We welcome applications from everyone, and particularly encourage women and Black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates to apply as we’re actively building representation that’s more closely reflective of the communities we serve. Our appointments are made on merit, following a robust and objective assessment process, and the candidate with the highest score is offered the role. If you’re passionate about our purpose of helping households save money and excited about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.