Finance Manager (No 1 in Finance)

Rotheram Carrington Financial Recruitment is delighted to be working with a well-established UK subsidiary based in Cheshire (located junction 9 off M56), offering hybrid working. This business turns over in the region of £12m to £14m with a 24% growth last year. This is a great opportunity to move into a No.1 Finance role, reporting to the UK Financial Controller based in Ireland. This role has one finance person reporting in who looks after all the day-to-day transactional processing. On-site this role will have a dotted line to the Site Director, with whom you will be working closely.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all aspects of finance on-site, including management of one finance person
• Production of management accounts, month-end, and year-end process
• Producing management information, analysis, trends, and KPI reporting
• Review of the statutory accounts, corporation tax, VAT, payroll, and audit (produced by the auditors)
• FP&A analysis (sales, FX, stock, cost of sales, profitability)
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Finance business partnering with Sales/R&D/Customer Services/Logistics
• Treasury management and weekly cash flow forecasting, working capital
• Various key stakeholder relationships both internal and external (such as pensions, banks)
• Financial modelling around investment appraisals
• Quarterly tax and financial reporting to the US
• Detailed financial analysis using Excel scenarios profitability, highlighting risks & improvements
• Ad hoc analysis required by the US
• Continuous process improvement such as financial systems and ERP upgrade and implementation

Skills/Experience

• ACCA/ACA/CIMA Qualified
• Proven experience working as a Finance Manager responsible for all aspects of finance for a larger SME business
• Background dealing with operations, movement of goods, working with project teams, ensuring cross-functional collaboration
• An understanding of US reporting is advantageous but not essential
• Experience of system implementations
• Excellent communication skills, liaising across different sites and locally with logistics/sales & customer services
• Strong Excel skills, as the US will ask for financial analysis reporting quite regularly

What’s on Offer

• £60,000 to £70,000 per annum, plus 10% bonus (up to £75k dependent on experience)
• Benefits: Life Assurance, Pension
• Hybrid: 2-3 days in office and remainder from home (open to remote working if required) but the person would need to be mainly on site for the first 6 months
• Holidays: 25 plus 8 bank holidays

To find out more about this Finance Manager job based in Cheshire, please apply. We’d be delighted to hear from you.

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