Finance Manager

MarcDaniels; Bracknell; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Marc Daniels is recruiting a Finance Manager for a large, established organisation in the Berkshire area. The role is a permanent position with hybrid working and flexible start/finish times, offering broad responsibility across financial reporting, FP&A, budgeting and business partnering.

You will take ownership of month-end close, oversee balance sheet, apply IFRS standards, and partner with stakeholders to provide financial insight and drive planning and decision-making.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with solid IFRS knowledge and controls background.
• Experience across financial reporting, month-end close and financial controls.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and planning experience.
• Comfortable partnering with stakeholders and challenging financial assumptions.
• Proven ability to lead and develop finance teams.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of month-end close, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting.
• Oversee accounting across revenue, costs, inventory, provisions and balance sheet.
• Ensure IFRS 15/IFRS 16 applied correctly.
• Review journals, reconciliations and balance sheet substantiation with strong controls.
• Partner with FP&A and business teams to provide financial insight and decision support.
• Support budgeting and forecasting, developing robust plans with stakeholders.
• Challenge assumptions in budgets and forecasts, identify risks and opportunities.
• Analyze actual vs. budget/forecast to explain variances and drivers.
• Improve forecasting accuracy and financial understanding across the business.
• Develop budgeting methodologies, reporting, and performance tracking; work with shared service teams.
• Drive continuous improvement in reporting, data quality, controls and finance processes.

Skills

Financial reporting

Month-end close

Financial controls

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Financial planning

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Team leadership

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Hyperion

Trintech Cadency

Job description

Marc Daniels are recruiting for a Finance Manager to join a large, established organisation based in the Berkshire area.

This is a permanent opportunity offering hybrid working and flexible start/finish times.

This is a broad Finance Manager role combining financial reporting and control with FP&A, budgeting, forecasting and business partnering. The successful candidate will take significant ownership of month-end and technical accounting while also working closely with stakeholders to provide financial insight, challenge performance and support planning and decision-making.

The FP&A element of the position is expected to increase further over time, making this an excellent opportunity for someone looking to broaden their commercial finance exposure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the month-end close, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting
• Oversee accounting across revenue, costs, inventory, provisions and the balance sheet
• Ensure appropriate application of accounting standards, including IFRS 15 and IFRS 16
• Review journals, reconciliations and balance sheet substantiation, maintaining strong financial controls
• Partner with FP&A and wider business teams to provide financial analysis, insight and decision support
• Support the budgeting and forecasting process, working with stakeholders to develop robust and accurate plans
• Review budgets and forecasts, challenging assumptions and identifying risks and opportunities
• Analyse actual performance against budget and forecast, identifying key drivers and root causes of variances
• Help improve forecasting accuracy and enhance financial understanding across the business
• Support the development of improved budgeting methodologies, reporting and performance tracking
• Work closely with shared service teams to ensure accurate and timely delivery of finance activities
• Drive continuous improvement across reporting, data quality, controls and finance processes
• Support audit, risk, governance and compliance activities
• Build strong relationships with finance and non-finance stakeholders, acting as a trusted finance partner
• Manage, coach and develop members of the finance team

The successful candidate will:

• Be a qualified accountant - ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
• Have strong experience across financial reporting, month-end and financial control
• Possess a good working knowledge of IFRS
• Have experience of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and financial planning
• Be comfortable partnering with stakeholders and challenging financial assumptions
• Have strong analytical skills with the ability to turn financial information into meaningful insight
• Have experience of technical accounting and balance sheet ownership
• Ideally have experience working with a finance shared service centre
• Have exposure to audit, controls, risk and compliance
• Have previous experience managing and developing team members
• Demonstrate a track record of improving finance processes and controls

Experience within a large, international or multi-entity organisation would be advantageous, as would exposure to systems such as SAP S/4HANA, Hyperion or Trintech Cadency.

This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified accountant looking for a genuinely broad Finance Manager position, offering a strong combination of financial control, technical accounting, FP&A, business partnering and team leadership.