Assistant Finance Manager: Month-End, Reporting & Insight

We-Help-Recruit; Horsham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

We-Help-Recruit is seeking an Assistant Finance Manager for a well-established Crawley-based business. The role is hands-on, covering month-end close, management accounts, and financial control, with collaboration across finance leadership and wider teams.

You will own reporting packs, balance-sheet reconciliations, and assist with group reporting and statutory compliance. This is a hybrid role offering exposure to cash management, working capital improvements, and ad-hoc financial projects.

Qualifications

• Qualified in AAT/ACCA/ACCA or CIMA or qualified by experience.
• Strong experience in management accounts, month-end and financial control.
• Confident with balance-sheet reconciliations and resolving discrepancies.
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with financial systems.
• Commercially minded, organised and capable of managing competing priorities.
• Clear communicator across finance, operations and commercial teams.
• Proactive, accurate and detail-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Support and coordinate month-end close activities.
• Prepare management accounts, reporting packs and variance analysis.
• Review journals, accruals, prepayments and reconciliations.
• Maintain strong balance-sheet control and investigate outstanding items.
• Monitor inventory, receivables and payables, helping to improve working-capital performance.
• Support cash management and identify potential risks or opportunities.
• Assist with group reporting, audit preparation and statutory compliance activity.
• Provide day-to-day support and guidance to a Finance Assistant.
• Work with commercial and operational teams to provide accurate financial information and insight.
• Support process improvements, finance projects and ad-hoc analysis.

Skills

Excel skills

Financial analysis

Balance-sheet reconciliation

Communication

Attention to detail

Education

AAT/ACCA/ACCA or CIMA qualified

Tools

Financial systems

Job description

We-Help-Recruit is seeking an Assistant Finance Manager for a well-established Crawley-based business. The role is hands-on, covering month-end close, management accounts, and financial control, with collaboration across finance leadership and wider teams.

You will own reporting packs, balance-sheet reconciliations, and assist with group reporting and statutory compliance. This is a hybrid role offering exposure to cash management, working capital improvements, and ad-hoc financial projects.