Finance Manager

SMP Group is a leading, multi-award winning producer in POS (Point of Sale) and Out-of-Home Advertising. We are the trusted partner for some of the world's most recognisable brands and retailers, delivering innovative, high-quality print and production solutions. We pride ourselves on creativity, technology-driven manufacturing, and best-in-class client service. Sustainability, innovation, and people development are at the heart of our DNA.

This is a brilliant opportunity to work with the CFO and management team to enhance and formalise the Finance team's role as a centre of excellence for systems expertise, information provision and value addition. We are a growing and acquisitive business and we have ambitious plans to further enhance our service and operational capabilities - Finance will play a key role in supporting this.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support CFO and team to create additional capacity and depth of competence for overall team development and delivery within the context of a developing business
• Deliver a range of transactional finance function activities (across AP / AR / Payroll) to ensure resilience and business continuity
• Support month end close with payroll, key reconciliations and journals, and management reports
• Maintain and further develop month end journal schedules as required
• Work with other Finance staff to develop and improve systems, processes and levels of competence and delivery
• Collaborate across the business to develop analyses and supporting processes and systems to measure business performance
• Develop and track divisional budgets and KPIs
• Construct and update divisional P&Ls and variance analyses
• Develop and maintain financial model of business performance
• Build understanding and buy-in across the team and business for finance team capability and financial and business analyses and initiatives to enhance business performance and resilience
• Manage ad hoc financial tasks on a regular basis and be an additional point of contact for financial expertise in the organisation
• Complete VAT reconciliations

Key Competencies:

• Qualified accountant
• Good communicator
• Hands-on, common sense approach with ability to prioritise sensibly and to set and pursue realistic goals and manage time and resources to achieve them
• Creative, dedicated problem solver, numerically fluent and skilled in analytical methods such as data cleansing, application of logical formulae (Excel or database applications)
• Experienced in data analysis, financial modelling and advanced Excel
• Familiar with management accounting and entry of journals, from purchase and sales invoices to general journals
• Technologically fluent and able to suggest adoption or creation of applications for workflow management, automation of tasks, use of AI, etc

SMP Competencies:

• Building Collaborative Relationships - Develop, maintain, and strengthen relationships with others inside and/or outside SMP
• Customer Orientation - Demonstrate concern for satisfying external and/or internal customers; developing and sustaining productive customer relationships
• Innovation - Develop fresh ideas to provide solutions to work challenges
• Initiative - Identifies what needs to be done and does it without waiting for others and before being asked or before the situation requires it
• Results Orientation - Focus on achieving desired results and how best to achieve them; takes proactive action to get the job done
• Flexibility - Adapts to changing business needs, conditions, and work responsibilities
• Leadership - Inspires and motivates employees to perform at their best

Join us and be part of a company that values Creativity, Excellence, and Continuous Improvement.

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• 25 days holiday
• Company Pension
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Insurance