Finance Manager — Ownership in Growing SME (3-4d/wk on-site)

Tailored Search Recruitment; Alcester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Tailored Search Recruitment is working with an established SME to recruit a newly created Finance Manager role in Alcester. You’ll own the finance function day-to-day, lead a small team and partner with senior leadership to drive reporting, controls and commercial insight.

The role combines hands-on accounting with strategic business partnering, giving you genuine influence over budgeting, forecasting and longer-term planning as the business grows.

Qualifications

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or qualified by experience
• Strong management accounting and month-end experience
• Experience leading a small finance team
• Hands-on plus commercial business partnering
• Proven in improving processes, controls and reporting
• SME environment experience with impact
• Confident communicating with finance and non-finance stakeholders
• Xero experience would be useful

Responsibilities

• Full ownership of the month-end process and management accounts
• Produce MI, commentary and analysis for senior stakeholders
• Manage cash flow, working capital and credit control oversight
• Lead and develop a small transactional finance team
• Improve financial controls, processes and reporting
• Support budgeting, forecasting and longer-term planning
• Business partner across the wider organisation
• Provide commercial insight with senior leadership
• Help develop the finance function

Skills

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Management accounting

Team leadership

Business partnering

Xero knowledge

Tools

Xero

Job description

Tailored Search Recruitment is working with an established SME to recruit a newly created Finance Manager role in Alcester. You’ll own the finance function day-to-day, lead a small team and partner with senior leadership to drive reporting, controls and commercial insight.

The role combines hands-on accounting with strategic business partnering, giving you genuine influence over budgeting, forecasting and longer-term planning as the business grows.