Finance manager
Hays
Overview
In this Finance Manager role, you join the finance leadership team to ensure accurate financial reporting, robust controls, and ongoing process improvements. You will lead a small finance function in a growing organisation, partnering with stakeholders to support business objectives and improvements. The role focuses on delivering timely reports, insightful analysis, and automation-driven efficiency. This position offers a chance to shape financial performance in a commercially oriented environment.
Responsibilities- Lead month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting activities
- Ensure robust financial controls and balance sheet integrity
- Prepare and review management accounts and financial reporting packs
- Support budgeting, forecasting and cash flow processes
- Deliver insightful financial analysis to support business decision-making
- Manage, mentor and develop members of the finance team
- Drive finance process improvements and automation initiatives
- Support audit, tax and statutory reporting requirements
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business
- Experienced finance professional with a strong technical accounting background and previous experience managing teams within a fast-paced environment
- Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Strong management accounting and financial reporting experience
- Experience leading and developing finance teams
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Strong systems and process improvement mindset
- Ability to operate effectively in a changing and growing organisation
- Stakeholder management
- Leadership and people development
- Adaptability
- Technical accounting background
- Financial reporting
- Budgeting and forecasting
Reference: WJ-747_31175911