Finance Manager

AtkinsClarke; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Site-based role

Exposure to senior stakeholders

Hands-on finance remit

Job summary

AtkinsClarke, on behalf of a leading UK logistics operator, seeks a Site Finance Manager to provide on-site finance and controllership support to a busy operation. You will partner with operations to link daily performance with commercial and financial outcomes, owning reporting, controls and budgeting at site level.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will drive customer profitability analysis, manage monthly management accounts, revenue and margin reporting, and ensure accurate

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with logistics/warehousing or similar environment experience.
• Strong operational finance background and ability to link performance to financial outcomes.
• Experience in revenue, margin, billing and balance sheet reconciliation.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to challenge assumptions.

Responsibilities

• Support preparation of monthly management accounts, weekly flash reports and forecasts.
• Prepare and review revenue, cost of sales, margin schedules and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Lead customer profitability reporting across closed-book and open-book customers.
• Maintain billing controls and ensure accurate and timely invoicing.
• Review operational KPIs and benchmark volumes and costs against budgets.
• Assist budgeting and reforecasting for customer contracts with operations.

Skills

Analytical skills

Advanced Excel

Finance systems literacy

Education

Fully qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

East Midlands | Logistics | Site-Based (Flexible)

OVERVIEW

AtkinsClarke are supporting the search for a Site Finance Manager on behalf of a leading logistics operator, providing dedicated on-site finance and controllership support to one of its operations.

This is a hands-on, commercially focused role suited to a qualified accountant with a background in logistics, warehousing or supply chain, acting as the key finance partner on site and linking day-to-day operational performance with commercial and financial outcomes.

COMPANY

Our client is a well-established logistics organisation operating across multiple UK sites, supporting a broad customer base with high-volume, operationally intensive contracts.

The business places strong emphasis on financial control, customer profitability and close collaboration between finance and operations, and continues to invest in its people and site-level finance capability.

OPPORTUNITY

Reporting to the Financial Controller, the Site Finance Manager will provide finance and controllership support across the site, with a strong focus on customer profitability, margin protection and financial governance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting preparation of monthly management accounts, weekly flash reporting and forecasts
• Preparing and reviewing revenue, cost of sales, margin schedules and balance sheet reconciliations
• Leading customer-level profitability reporting across closed-book and open-book customers
• Maintaining billing and revenue protection controls, ensuring accurate and timely invoicing
• Reviewing operational KPIs and benchmarking actual volumes and costs against customer budgets
• Supporting budgeting and reforecasting for customer contracts, partnering closely with operations

PERSON

We are seeking a qualified accountant with strong operational finance experience gained within logistics, warehousing, fulfilment or a comparable customer-contract environment.

You will bring:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or qualified by significant relevant experience
• Strong operational finance background in logistics, warehousing, fulfilment or a similar environment
• Strong analytical skills, comfortable investigating variances and challenging assumptions
• Experience of revenue, margin, billing and balance sheet reconciliation
• Advanced Excel skills and strong general finance systems literacy
• Confident communicator, able to present financial insight to non-finance audiences

OFFER

• Competitive salary and benefits package (details to be confirmed)
• Site-based role offering close, day-to-day exposure to a fast-paced logistics operation
• Genuine influence over customer profitability and site financial performance
• Direct exposure to senior finance and operational stakeholders
• Broad, hands-on finance remit spanning reporting, controls, budgeting and commercial analysis

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