At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide financial governance and support to senior stakeholders, driving transformation and insights.
- Company: Join Ricoh, a global leader in innovative technology and collaboration.
- Benefits: Flexible working, career growth opportunities, and a supportive community culture.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace committed to your success and wellbeing.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in finance while developing your skills in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Qualified accountant with commercial finance experience and strong analytical skills.
The predicted salary is between 65000 - 75000 £ per year.
Providing financial governance and commercial support to senior stakeholders across Ricoh’s lines of business, ensuring governance is observed, delivering financial insight, and driving transformation to meet business targets.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain senior‑level relationships, providing financial data to influence stakeholder functions and commercial insight to leadership teams.
- Own and comprehensively understand all balance sheet reconciliations within defined business areas, escalating identified risks and opportunities to senior finance management.
- Monitor cash position, commercial P&L/Line‑of‑Business performance and variance against budget, providing trend analysis, exception reporting and cost‑management insights.
- Lead and drive strategic financial transformation, challenging senior stakeholders and demonstrating commercial influence to create sustainable, profitable divisions while upholding governance and compliance.
- Own accurate functional budgeting and re‑forecasting, proactively track monthly updates, and advise on key business planning assumptions, pricing and cost/revenue modelling.
- Lead the month‑end process for the assigned area, ensuring audit testing and regulations support clean audit reporting; contribute to the monthly reporting pack with insights into published results and recommendations.
- In collaboration with senior finance management and business leaders, provide detailed analysis for board packs, collate and present during board reviews to support strategic decision‑making and performance insight.
Qualifications
- Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) with a degree level education.
- Proven commercial finance experience within IT and professional services/consultancy sectors of comparable size.
- Advanced knowledge of reporting, budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Strong commercial thinking and foresight.
- Preferred experience of successful finance transformation assignments.
- Demonstrable ability to analyse and validate financial and performance data.
- Comfortable communicating performance and influencing key stakeholders.
- Ability to apply persuasive influence with stakeholders.
- Adaptable to work in a growth–oriented, evolving environment.
- Excellent presentation skills – able to translate complex data for non‑finance audiences.
Benefits
- Love to Connect: You become part of a global community built on openness, inclusion and genuine collaboration, where people listen, involve and encourage one another.
- Love to Grow: Access to learning pathways, mentoring and career opportunities across functions and countries, supporting you to stretch your skills, explore new directions and stay future‑ready.
- Love to Give Back: Opportunities to make a difference through volunteering, sustainability initiatives and community programmes that reflect our shared values.
- Love to Succeed: Fair rewards, flexible working, wellbeing resources and real recognition, including the Imagine. Change. Awards programme.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe that diverse perspectives make us stronger and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences. Our hiring decisions are based on skills, experience and potential, and we are committed to creating a fair and inclusive recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment journey, please let us know and we will support you to bring your best self forward.
Finance Manager in Northampton employer: Ricoh UK
Ricoh is an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of openness, inclusion, and collaboration, making it an ideal place for Finance Managers to thrive. With a strong emphasis on employee growth through access to learning pathways and mentoring, as well as flexible working arrangements and recognition programmes, Ricoh empowers its employees to reach their full potential while contributing to meaningful community initiatives. Located in a dynamic environment, the company offers a unique opportunity to influence strategic financial transformation and drive commercial success across diverse business lines.
