Finance Manager

Gifford and Partners Recruitment Limited; Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency in the UK seeks a Finance Manager who will blend financial control with commercial influence and engage with senior stakeholders. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for guiding financial performance, presenting insights to leadership, and developing a high-performing accounting team. The ideal candidate is ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified, with strong communication and leadership skills. This position offers the chance for significant career advancement, particularly towards a Financial Controller role.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience managing a team.
• Experience with financial reporting and performance analysis.
• Ability to present insights and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Guide internal stakeholders through financial performance.
• Present key insights to the board and senior leaders.
• Develop a reporting team and coach members.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Drive embedding of new processes across finance.

Skills

Business partnering

Presenting to senior leadership

Leading teams

Excellent communication skills

Education

ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified accountant

Tools

Power BI

Job description

This is a genuinely varied and somewhat rare opportunity for a Finance Manager seeking a role that blends robust financial control with commercial influence, performance enhancement and senior stakeholder engagement. It offers a well-balanced mix of accounting and commercial responsibilities, giving real breadth and long-term career potential.

As Finance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that corporate and business strategies are underpinned by strong financial control, insightful reporting and the consistent drive to maximise profitability and operational efficiency.

Although positioned within a large corporate environment, this role carries the scope and impact of a Financial Controller supporting Commercial Operations. You will gain significant exposure across the business, ensuring stakeholders understand and act upon the story behind the numbers.

Key Responsibilities

• Business partnering with internal stakeholders, guiding them through monthly financial performance.
• Presenting to the board and senior leadership, clearly articulating performance drivers and explaining variances to plan and forecast.
• Collaborating closely with Commercial Finance, ensuring accurate forecasting and embedding new processes and controls to support emerging business initiatives.
• Leading and developing a team of part- and fully-qualified reporting accountants, shaping their performance, coaching them, and acting as a key point of contact for both finance and operational leaders.
• Acting as a change agent, supporting system improvements, driving continuous enhancement and ensuring high-quality team outputs.

This role is ideally suited to an ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified accountant with excellent communication skills, proven leadership experience and the confidence to present at a senior level. You will thrive in a fast-paced, change-driven environment and bring the ability to think laterally, challenge established ways of working and operate effectively within a large corporate structure. Experience with digital tools such as Power BI would be advantageous, though not essential.

If you're ready to lead a high-performing team, enjoy strong visibility across the business and work closely with senior stakeholders, this role will offer exactly that. It won't stand still, it won't involve repeating the same outputs, and it will provide genuine scope to add value and insight.

As Finance Manager roles go, this is an excellent platform – delivering both BAU responsibility and commercial influence, combined with meaningful exposure to board and senior leadership. It is the ideal stepping stone towards a future Financial Controller position within a well-established corporate environment, offering genuinely rounded experience.