Aprolis UK - Finance Manager

Monnoyeur; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in the United Kingdom is seeking a candidate to enhance their financial planning, forecasting, and reporting capabilities. The ideal candidate will develop and maintain robust financial models to support business performance while collaborating closely with the Finance team. They will also provide hands-on support during month-end activities and drive continuous process improvements. Strong analytical skills and a keen understanding of financial data are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial modeling and development.
• Strong analytical skills to inform decision-making.
• Ability to support data integrity and automation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain sales models for budgeting and forecasting.
• Engage with Finance team to ensure models are user-friendly.
• Support month-end close activities as needed.

Job description

Our Values

• Entrepreneurship
• Courage
• Respect
• Friendliness

Job Description Summary

This role plays a key part in strengthening Aprolis UK's financial planning, forecasting and reporting capability. The postholder will lead the development and rollout of robust, user‑friendly financial models to support budgeting, forecasting and performance insight across the business.

Working closely with the wider Finance team and business stakeholders, the role focuses on simplifying existing models, improving controls, and ensuring data integrity, automation and usability. Alongside project‑based development work, the role will provide hands‑on support to day‑to‑day finance activities, particularly during high‑pressure periods such as month end.

Job Description

Financial Modelling & Development

• Develop and maintain sales models to support budgeting and forecasting
• Build and roll out depot‑level budgeting and forecasting models
• Enhance and deploy balance sheet models using existing frameworks
• Simplify and standardise existing models, improving controls and data integrity
• Ensure models are robust, credible and interoperable, with clean and reliable links between them
• Enable multi‑user access while maintaining version control and governance
• Ensure models can be efficiently built from monthly trial balances on actuals
• Incorporate all required metrics to support reporting and business insight
• Build flexibility to overlay accounting or structural changes as required

Collaboration & Insight

• Engage with the wider Finance team to ensure models are intuitive, practical and insight‑driven
• Support Finance Business Partners by providing meaningful analysis to inform decision‑making
• Respond to ad‑hoc queries and investigations from the business
• Provide financial insight to support profitability and performance improvement

Operational & Continuous Improvement

• Support month‑end close activities as required
• Drive ongoing process improvements, embedding automation and efficiencies
• Contribute to data and reporting projects across the Finance function
• Provide flexible support to the Finance team during peak workload periods