Finance Manager

Finance Manager

£70,000 - £80,000 + 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 seeking a qualified accountant who is technically proficient and has a commercial mindset. The ideal candidate will have experience in business partnering, with the ability to influence and challenge stakeholders

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