Finance Manager
£65,000 - £75,000 + Bonus and Benefits.
Growing company, interesting sector, awesome culture, and a great boss!
This is a highly varied accounting role that will provide you with oversight of the day-to-day finance function, responsibility for reporting, support in FP&A, and the opportunity to act as a business partner. You will also manage and develop a team of two in a growing PE-backed business.
We are looking for a qualified accountant who is technically astute with a commercial mindset. The right person for this role will have a genuine hunger to grow and develop in their career.
Month end reporting:
- Ownership of monthly management accounts for all managed companies, including clear commentary explaining variances against budgets/forecasts
- Review of work completed by Management Accountants
- Preparation of monthly and quarterly board packs
- Regular review of balance sheets and following up on discrepancies
- Regular review of aged debtors and creditors with Accounts Payable Manager
- Ownership of weekly and monthly cash forecasts
- Ownership of spares movements and regular review with Stores Manager
- Ownership of feedstock harvests and usage, and regular review with Feedstock Managers
- Ensure data within the system is as clean and up to date as possible to drive real time information reporting
Business partnering:
- Liaise across the business to build relationships between Finance and other departments
- Assist commercial finance team with valuations and other queries
- Ensure budget holders are kept up to date with their progress against budget and maintain a dialogue regarding potential issues and risks to highlight to the Financial Controller
- Undertake ad hoc financial analysis as required to support business partners
Internal controls:
- Assist in ensuring a strong internal control environment is developed and maintained
- Prepare and update system and process documentation
- Seek to continuously improve all existing systems, processes and controls
Statutory reporting:
- Ownership of statutory accounts preparation and liaising with auditors
- Ownership of corporation tax and liaising with tax consultants
- Calculation of quarterly tax instalments
- Assisting with VAT queries and inspections
- Company secretarial filings
Budgeting:
- Support Financial Controller and budget holders with annual budget setting processes
Investor relations:
- Day-to-day contact for investor queries
- Attend regular meetings with asset managers and other external stakeholders
- Ownership of distribution payments to investors