Finance Manager

Page Personnel; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Finance Manager to oversee financial reporting and team leadership within a growing engineering business. This role involves managing monthly accounts, ensuring compliance, and driving process improvements in finance. Ideal candidates are qualified finance professionals with SME experience and strong partnership skills with stakeholders. A competitive salary of £55-60k plus benefits is offered for this position, located in East Midlands.

Qualifications

• Proven team management experience within an SME.
• Problem solver effective in partnering with senior stakeholders.
• Hands-on approach to finance management.

Responsibilities

• Lead preparation of monthly management accounts and financial reporting.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements.
• Manage year-end processes and liaise with external auditors.
• Drive a high-performance culture in the finance team.

Skills

Team management

Commercial finance management

Financial reporting

Process improvement

Stakeholder management

Education

Qualified finance manager

Job description

About Our Client

£10m t / o engineering business with a strong heritage in Derby but with an international footprint and ambitious growth plans

Job Description

• Reporting, process improvement, budgets, variance work
• Decision support, financial Management
• Lead the preparation of monthly management accounts and financial reporting across group entities including finance slides and commentary for monthly board deck with support of the Management Accountant
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements
• Manage year-end processes and liaise with external auditors
• Commercial Finance
• Maintain 13 week cashflow forecast
• Manage weekly trading deck preparation
• Team Leadership: manage and develop a small finance team (AP, AR, Mgmt Accountant and junior finance staff)
• Drive a high-performance culture with a focus on accuracy, efficiency, and commercial awareness
• Systems & Controls: oversee financial systems and process improvements, including ERP and integrations
• Maintain strong financial controls including monthly balance sheet reconciliations, and risk management processes
• Maintain efficient cash collections and control over retails and online cash receipts
• Ensure accurate stock reporting across the business on a monthly basis
• Support continuing development of finance systems where applicable

The Successful Applicant

You will be a Qualified, hands on Finance manager / Head of Finance with proven team management experience within an SME. Commercially minded, a natural problem solver and capable of effectively partnering with a range of senior stakeholders in the UK and overseas, based a commutable distance from Derby

What's on Offer

55-60k plus benefits