Finance Manager

Ian Leech Professional Recruitment; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment specialist is seeking a Finance Manager in Mansfield, UK. This role involves managing a finance team and supporting the Finance Director to drive change across the business. The successful candidate should be fully qualified, possess strong IT skills in Excel and Power BI, and demonstrate leadership and analytical abilities. This position is viewed as a stepping stone to a Finance Director role.

Qualifications

• Management of a finance team covering sales and purchase ledger and payroll.
• Provision of robust and insightful KPI and board packs to senior management.
• Experience in ERP knowledge and data management.

Responsibilities

• Support the Finance Director in driving a programme of change.
• Manage day to day running of the finance team to ensure account production.
• Engage in operational and commercial matters across the business.

Skills

Attention to detail

Challenging the Status Quo

Effective Leadership

Empathetic communication

Team Ethic

Education

Fully qualified

Tools

Excel

Power BI

SAGE 200 ERP

Job description

My client is a specialist wholesaler operating in a comptetitive, but lucratibe B2B sector.

The business has a diverse customer base and serves both physical outlets and online e-commerce partners.

The business is now looking to strengthen the finance team with the appointment of a Finance Manager to report directly to the Finance Director.

The Role

You will be supporting the Finance Director to continue to drive a programme of change across the business.

The Finance Manager will take responsibility for the day to day running of the Finance team of 4 heads to ensure delivery of the management accounts production and all submissions into the PLC Head Office. Alongside this, there is large scope to engage in all operational and commercial matters across the business to ensure that processes, systems and KPI outputs are aligned and are effective.

The supplier base comes from China, Malaysia, Vietnam and Brazil and you will work closely with the Supply Chain team on all areas of order management.

From a commercial standpoint you will work alongside and challenge the sales team and bring your analytical skills to bear through effective reporting from the SAGE 200 ERP/Power BI output.

Fundamentally, this role should be seen as a fantastic learning opportunity in all areas of people management, sourcing, e-commerce operations and finance and, as such, a stepping stone to a Finance Director position in the future.

Core Attributes

It is likely that the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate core attributes such as :

Attention to detail delivered through good IT skills and insightful analysis

Challenging of the Status Quo

Empathetic communication style

Effective Leadership

A Team Ethic

Experience

Fully qualified

Management of a Finance Team covering all the normal areas of Sales and Purchase Ledger and Payroll.

Provision of robust and insightful KPI and Board packs to senior management.

Good IT skills notably in Excel and preferably in Power BI.

ERP knowledge and data management thereof.

Evidence of commercially focused analysis and of being a change agent