Finance Manager in Bolton

Leeds / Hybrid Working
Fixed Term Contract – 30 hours per week
Up to £55,000 FTE, depending on experience, plus benefits

Are you a qualified finance professional looking for an opportunity to make a real commercial impact within a growing technology and infrastructure business? We are seeking a Finance Manager to join our IT Services Division on a fixed-term contract, supporting our Data Cabling business. Acting as the key Finance Business Partner to the Operational Director, you will play a critical role in driving financial performance, supporting operational decision-making, and ensuring robust financial control across a portfolio of projects and contracts. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious finance professional who enjoys working closely with operational teams, influencing stakeholders, and providing meaningful commercial insight.

Some of the key deliverables in this role will include:

• Taking ownership of financial reporting and control for the Data Cabling business, partnering with operational, commercial and project management teams to deliver accurate forecasting, effective working capital management and timely financial information.
• Business partnering with the Operational Director and senior management team to provide high-quality financial and non-financial insights to support decision-making.
• Leading project and contract reviews with Project Managers and supporting with financial analysis to ensure accurate forecasting and cost-to-complete assessments.
• Preparing monthly management accounts, including all month-end adjustments.
• Producing rolling forecasts, year-end forecasts and detailed revenue and margin projections.
• Challenging variances with Operations and monitoring margin improvement plans.
• Managing balance sheet reconciliations and supporting schedules.
• Identifying and reporting business risks and opportunities.
• Overseeing working capital reporting, including debtor plans and cashflow optimisation.
• Attending monthly business review meetings with senior leadership team as the finance representative.
• Supporting bids, tenders and commercial reviews, providing financial challenge and margin analysis.
• Assisting with annual budgets, audits and year-end processes.
• Driving process improvements through ERP and operational efficiencies.
• Providing ad hoc reporting and financial analysis as required to improve business performance.
• Partnering with divisional finance to improve reporting, governance, cash collection, and financial discipline.

What we’re looking for:

We are looking for a commercially focused finance professional who enjoys building strong relationships and influencing business performance. You will ideally have:

• Fully qualified ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent.
• Previous experience in a Finance Manager, Finance Business Partner or similar role.
• Strong management accounting, forecasting and financial control experience.
• Experience working in project-based, contract-led or services environments.
• Excellent Excel and Microsoft Office skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Confidence to challenge, influence and support non-finance stakeholders.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach with excellent attention to detail.

Desirable Experience:

• Strong commercial acumen and business partnering skills.
• The ability to translate financial data into meaningful business insights.
• Experience working with operational teams to improve performance and profitability.
• A collaborative approach and the confidence to work across multiple stakeholder groups.

Why Join Us?

This role offers the opportunity to be a key member of the finance team within a dynamic IT Services business, where you can directly influence performance and support strategic decision making. You'll work closely with senior operational leaders while gaining broad exposure across project accounting, forecasting, commercial review and business partnering activities.

Benefits:

• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays with an option to buy/sell days.
• Pension with a leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution.
• Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Life Assurance.
• Free 24/7 365 Employee Assistance Program to support mental health and well-being (including counselling sessions and legal advice).
• Flexible benefits to choose from including: Dental Insurance, Gym Membership, Travel Insurance, Tax Free Bikes.

Next Steps:

As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation. We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and awarded Gold Standard in the Armed Forces Covenant.

About Us:

We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training. Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies. Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.