Finance Manager
Eccles
£60,000 plus £6k car allowance plus healthcare
Excellent opportunity for a Qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA finance professional to join a national business as Finance Manager based in their head office.
The role will support their wholesale business across a wide range of goods and services and will include payroll, delivery and property costs and will play an important part in the development of their largest business area.
This role is very much a business partnering and will be responsible for p&l budgets and preparation and understanding periodic accounts and will deputise for the Head of Finance.
Key responsibilities:
- Ensure accurate reporting of costs in accordance with accounting standards each period.
- Work pro-actively to develop tools to monitor productivity across collect and delivery operations.
- Work with the procurement teams to obtain optimum value from the purchasing of other goods and services not for resale.
- Track performance of save to invest initiatives to auditable standards.
- Manage the capex process across the business. Including reviewing capex investment and producing business cases to support where capex is returning.
- Work to identify issues that will or are impacting the branch cost base and work promptly, jointly & proactively to mitigate and resolve such issues.
- Work with stakeholders to manage understanding of the cost base and cost reporting.
- Work proactively with stakeholders to improve processes and maximise asset utilization.
- Work promptly, jointly & proactively on capital projects to improve cash profit & customer satisfaction.
- Find ways to achieve or beat budgeted costs and try to improve costs year-on-year.
- Find ways to mitigate the impact of cost inflation in branches.
- Deliver new tools and techniques to improve quality and efficiency.
- Deliver innovation through transformation and continual service improvement.
Essential Skills
- ACCA/CIMA/ACA Qualified
- 5+ years' experience of working in a post qualified Finance role
- Experience in a Finance business partnering role at a senior level with first class communication skills
- Proven forecasting and budgeting experience and excellent analytical skills
- Proven ‘hands on' track record of delivering solutions within a pressurised environment
- Experience in a large, multi-site business ie retail or wholesale is preferable
- Willing to travel to sites across the UK as required
- Strong systems skills