Finance Manager

Epwin Group; Tamworth; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Telus Health

Holidays

Cycle to Work

Eyecare vouchers

Flu Vouchers

Level-On-Demand Pay

Job summary

Epwin Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a Finance Manager to provide robust financial reporting and support to senior management. You will produce daily, weekly and monthly reports, manage month-end processes, and drive continuous improvement within the finance function.

You will lead a small team, maintain controls over the T&A system, and coordinate intercompany and year-end activities while ensuring timely and accurate financial information for decision-making.

Qualifications

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• High proficiency in Excel and data analysis.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• High attention to detail during reporting and reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Produce accurate monthly management accounts by day 3 for Finance Director review.
• Manage the weekly P&L and monitor production costs, transport and overheads.
• Oversee daily/weekly/monthly group reporting and timely distribution.
• Maintain T&A system; ensure new starters are set up and absences tracked.
• Update monthly group accounts pack and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Coordinate month-end timetable and oversee cashflow forecasting.
• Lead a small finance team and develop staff.
• Assist with year-end accounts and external audits.

Skills

Independent working

Excel proficiency

Verbal and written communication

Attention to detail

Education

QBE or final stages of CIMA/ACA/ACCA

Tools

Business Central/Navision

Job description

The vacancy

EPW2

Job Purpose:
The role of the Finance Manager is to provide effective support to the wider business by producing accurate daily, weekly and monthly reports enabling senior managers to make clear and effective decisions along with being an integral part of the finance function, maintaining financial policies and management information systems.

Key Accountabilities:

• Produce accurate monthly management accounts by working day 3 for review by the Finance Director including setting up the accounts pack, posting journals and investigating variances to budget/forecast/prior months
• Manage the weekly P&L report ensuring all income and costs are reported accurately, along with monitoring of production efficiency, transport costs and overheads
• Oversee the updating and sending of daily, weekly and monthly group reports accurately and on time
• Oversee maintenance of the company T&A system, ensuring all new starters are set up on the system and all overtime and absences are recorded and authorised by the relevant managers
• Update monthly group accounts pack for review by the Finance Director
• Co-ordinate the month end timetable ensuring all tasks are completed by the right people at the right time
• Inventory control: including maintaining standard costs of Raw Material, Work in Progress and Finished Goods, variances, reconciliations, and stock takes.
• Update monthly balance sheet reconciliations for review by the Finance Director
• Complete ad hoc business improvement projects where available, to help drive the business forward and foster a culture of continuous improvement
• Manage the weekly, monthly and quarterly cashflow forecast ensuring the cashflow balances back to the budget/forecast
• Manage monthly Bank Reconciliations
• Support the budgeting and forecasting Process
• Lead a small team including Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger, T&A system maintenance and the Buyer, ensuring all tasks are completed in a timely manner and provide support and development to junior team members
• Calculate appropriate provisions as required, such as inventory, rebates, credit note and bad debt
• Update and maintain the Fixed Asset Register including additions, disposals, depreciation and mould recovery
• Agree all intercompany balances each month
• To complete ONS and VAT returns as required
• Assisting with Year End Accounts and external audit
• To provide occasional holiday cover within the department where necessary and complete other ad-hoc activities for the wider Finance Department, if required

Key Experiences and Skills Required:

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision to accomplish team goals and objectives
• Computer literate, including a high proficiency in Excel
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• High attention to detail

Desirables Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required:

• QBE or completed / in the final stages of CIMA / ACA / ACCA
• Exposure to Business Central (Navision) would be advantageous
• Manufacturing Experience

Personal Attributes:

• Driven by results - Decisive, confident addressing problems and opportunities, challenging activities to improve performance, demonstrate willingness to challenge accepted methods and standards
• Action orientated - Able to deal with problems in appropriate time frames
• Effective communication - Clear concise written and spoken, ability at all levels, customer, supplier and internal
• Strategic agility - recognition of a changing need and speed of response, rapid reaction to challenges
• High Standards - demonstrating a motivation to improve standards and thereby making a real difference, challenging inadequate solutions
• Integrity and trust - demonstrating a sense of commitment to openness, honesty, loyalty and high standards in undertaking the role
• People management - demonstrating commitment to working and engaging constructively with internal and external stakeholders

The Company

Epwin Group is one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of low maintenance building products with some of the best-known manufacturing and service names in the sector.

We are one of the UK's largest manufacturers and suppliers of windows, doors and fascia systems with some of the best-known manufacturing and service names in the sector.

The principal activities of the Group are the extrusion of PVC-U and roofline products as well as the manufacture of windows, doors, conservatories and sealed units. Group businesses also produce high quality cladding, guttering, decking and prefabricated GRP building components.

At Epwin, we believe our success has come from the hard work and dedication of our employee's, we wouldn't be where we are today without them.

The Benefits

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The Values

• Innovation

We are creative and fearless in our work.

• Accountability

We take ownership of our work and lead from the front.

• Teamwork

We collaborate widely and build supportive environments.

We take pride in our people

At Epwin, we believe our success has come from the hard work and dedication of our employee's, we wouldn't be where we are today without them.

We're interested in our future, constantly investing and innovating in new products, processes and our employee's and we like to give back to our employee's as much as they give us.

The Benefits

• Telus Health
• Holidays
• Cycle to Work
• Eyecare vouchers
• Flu Vouchers
• Level-On-Demand Pay
• Eyecare vouchers

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