Finance Manager

Optimise By Recruitment; Barlborough; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing SME in the finance sector in Barlborough, UK is seeking a Finance Manager to lead a team and drive process improvements. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in finance management, strong knowledge of Sage 50, and a hands-on approach. This role offers real influence and the opportunity for growth in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Opportunity for progression

Influence on performance and growth

Qualifications

• Experience in a Finance Manager role or senior finance lead within an SME.
• Hands-on, proactive, solution-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a finance team of four.
• Full ownership of management accounts and month-end processes.
• Maintain and improve cashflow tracking and forecasting.
• Drive finance process improvements and support system migrations.

Skills

Proven finance management experience

Strong knowledge of Sage 50

Excellent Excel capability

Team leadership

Commercial awareness

Tools

Sage 50

Excel

Job description

A fast-growing, SME undergoing major transformation and investment. With significant projects underway and ambitious growth targets, this is a business where finance truly drives decisions, cash, control, investment, and operational accuracy are everything.

The Opportunity

We're looking for a hands-on Finance Manager who thrives in real-world finance, balancing the detail of ledgers and reconciliations with the commercial awareness of cashflow, profitability, and operational impact. You'll lead a finance team, drive process improvements, and act as the steady financial voice in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a finance team of four, ensuring accuracy, accountability and performance
• Full ownership of management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations and month-end processes
• Maintain and improve cashflow tracking, forecasting, and working capital discipline
• Oversee intercompany and group reconciliations, ensuring ledgers are clean and aligned
• Support decision-making on asset management, capital spend and financial controls
• Drive finance process improvements and support upcoming system upgrades/migrations
• Be a proactive partner to operations, understanding commercial drivers, not just numbers

About You

• Proven experience as a Finance Manager or senior finance lead within an SME environment
• Strong knowledge of Sage 50 (essential) and excellent Excel capability
• Comfortable managing complexity, group accounts, reconciliations, cash, capex
• Confident leading a team, setting standards, and managing day-to-day activites.
• Hands-on, proactive, and solution-focused, someone who brings clarity, not just reports
• Industry experience in manufacturing, engineering, construction or similar (preferred)

What You'll Gain

• Real influence, your work directly impacts performance and growth
• Opportunity to shape finance systems, processes and team culture
• A business investing heavily and ready for someone to take control and make change
• Long-term scope for progression as the group continues to scale

Interested?

If you're a finance leader who wants ownership, pace, and impact, not just routines and reports, this is the move where you steer the ship, not just count the waves