Finance Manager

Chiltern Park Recruitment Ltd; Beeston; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4-day working week

Job summary

Chiltern Park Recruitment Ltd is helping a Nottingham-based SME recruit a hands-on Finance Manager to own the day-to-day finance function and drive growth.

You will start by getting the foundations right in Xero, improve bookkeeping, and progressively take on forecasting, MI, and board reporting as the role evolves.

Qualifications

• Hands-on SME finance background with ownership mindset.
• Experience producing monthly management accounts.
• Strong Xero experience and project accounting understanding.

Responsibilities

• Managing day-to-day accounts in Xero and ensuring data quality.
• Improve coding and bookkeeping processes.
• Produce monthly management accounts and board-ready reporting.
• Develop cashflow forecasting and financial planning.
• Support external accountants for year-end and tax.

Skills

Xero

SME experience

Management accounting

Cashflow forecasting

Project accounting

Communication

Tools

Xero

HubSpot

Fathom

Job description

Finance Manager

Nottingham | £50,000 – £60,000

4-day working week | Full-time salary

Hybrid

Are you a hands‑on Finance Manager or Management Accountant looking for a role where you can take real ownership and grow with a business?

We’re recruiting for a growing SME in Nottingham that is looking for someone to take responsibility for its day‑to‑day finance function and, importantly, help develop it for the next stage of growth.

This could be a great next move for someone currently working within a smaller SME who enjoys being close to the numbers, understands how a business actually operates and wants the opportunity to step up and make the finance function their own.

This isn’t a role where you’ll sit above the detail.

Initially, you’ll be getting properly involved, improving the bookkeeping processes, sorting out coding and reporting within Xero and making sure the foundations are right.

Once they are, there is plenty of scope to develop the role into forecasting, management information, Board reporting and wider systems integration.

What you’ll be doing

• Managing and maintaining the day‑to‑day accounts within Xero
• Improving coding, bookkeeping processes and overall data quality
• Ensuring costs and income are correctly allocated across projects as well as the P&L
• Producing accurate monthly management accounts
• Developing stronger cashflow forecasting and financial planning
• Producing clear, useful information for the MD and Board
• Managing VAT, reconciliations, journals and general accounting processes
• Working with external accountants on year‑end accounts, tax and compliance
• Supporting project accounting and financial reporting
• Helping the business get much more from Xero
• Over time, supporting the integration of finance with CRM and reporting tools such as HubSpot and Fathom

Who are we looking for?

You don’t need to be an established Finance Director.

In fact, this could be an excellent opportunity for someone who has built a strong grounding in SME finance and is now ready for more ownership and responsibility.

You might currently be a:

• Finance Manager
• Management Accountant
• Senior Management Accountant
• Financial Controller

You’ll ideally have:

• Strong, practical Xero experience
• Experience working within an SME environment
• Good management accounting and cashflow forecasting experience
• Confidence getting involved in the detail, including reconciliations, coding and bookkeeping processes
• An understanding of project accounting or experience within a project, manufacturing, engineering or job‑shop environment would be particularly useful
• The ability to improve processes rather than simply maintain what is already there
• Confidence communicating financial information to non‑finance colleagues and senior management

Most importantly, we’re looking for someone who enjoys rolling their sleeves up.

The business needs someone who can get the foundations right first, then use those foundations to build better forecasting, reporting and financial insight.

Why consider it?

There is real headroom in this position.

You’ll be joining at a point where you can genuinely shape how finance operates, working closely with the MD and senior team and developing the role as the business continues to grow.

For someone looking for their next career step, rather than simply another Finance Manager job, it offers a lot of scope.

Salary

£50,000 – £60,000

Salary: £50,000 – £60,000

Benefits

• And perhaps the biggest perk: a genuine 4-day working week - 32 hours, while still receiving a full‑time salary