Finance Manager

What you will be doing:

• Providing financial governance and commercial support to senior stakeholders across the Ricoh lines of Business.
• The role is fundamental to the financial management of the business ensuring financial control and governance is observed and maintained.
• Working in partnership to generate commercial financial insight and drive transformation to deliver business targets.
• Develop and maintain senior level relationships, providing financial data to influence stakeholder function and commercial insight to the leadership teams.
• Persuade relevant stakeholders to ensure the effective delivery of the business strategy and financial targets are achieved.
• Responsible for owning and comprehensively understanding all balance sheet reconciliations within their defined business areas; expedite identified risks and opportunities within these reconciliations to Senior Financial management for remedial actions to be implemented.
• Monitor cash position, commercial P & L / Line of Business performance and variance against the agreed budget, providing detailed trend analysis and exception reporting.
• Drive cost management bringing concentrated understanding of cost drivers to optimise spend effectiveness and contribute to the Company's mid-term plans.
• Lead and drive strategic financial transformation by challenging Senior stakeholders and demonstrating commercial influence to create sustainable and profitable divisions, whilst upholding governance and financial regulation and compliance.
• Own the accurate preparation and completion of functional budgeting and re-forecasting, proactively tracking monthly and initiating appropriate action.
• Be responsible for advising and influencing key business planning assumptions, commercial and large deal pricing and cost/revenue modelling activities to achieve finance growth and performance of the defined business areas.
• Lead the month end process for specific area, observing audit testing/regulations for clean audit reporting.
• Contribute to monthly reporting pack by providing insight into published results; guiding management through communication of financial performance with recommendations and actions.
• In conjunction with Senior Finance Management and Business leaders provide detailed analysis and commentary for Board pack, collate and where required present during Board reviews clearly with accurate information to support strategic decision making and performance insight.

You will ideally have:

• Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA), educated to degree level.
• Proven commercial finance experience within IT and Professional Services / Consultancy Sectors within a comparable size organisation.
• Advanced knowledge of reporting, budgeting and forecasting process.
• Strong commercial thought and foresight.
• Preferred experience of successful finance transformation assignment.
• Demonstrable ability to analyse and validate financial and performance data.
• Comfortable communicating performance and influencing key stakeholders.
• Ability to apply persuasive influence with key stakeholders.
• An adaptable to work in a growth and evolving environment.
• Excellent presentation skills - able to translate complex data for non-finance audience.

In return for your commitment, you can expect:

• Love to Connect - You become part of a global community built on openness, inclusion and genuine collaboration.
• Love to Grow - Your development truly matters to us. With access to learning pathways, mentoring and career opportunities across functions and countries, you'll be supported to stretch your skills, explore new directions and stay future-ready in a changing world.
• Love to Give Back - Purpose is part of how we work. You'll have opportunities to make a difference through volunteering, sustainability initiatives and community programmes that reflect our shared values and commitment to positive impact.
• Love to Succeed - Success at Ricoh is something we pursue together. You'll benefit from fair rewards, flexible working, wellbeing resources and real recognition.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe that diverse perspectives make us stronger, and we 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.