Group Finance Manager
ExamWorks Investigation Services Limited
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Job summary
ExamWorks Investigation Services Limited is seeking a Group Finance Manager based at the Sheffield Head Office. The role oversees the finance function across six entities, delivering robust financial control, high-quality reporting and scalable processes to support growth.
The successful candidate will lead a talented finance team, partner with senior stakeholders, drive commercial insight and contribute to acquisitions and system improvements, including the Sage X3 transition.
Qualifications
- Qualified accountant with multi-entity experience.
- Strong knowledge of consolidations and intercompany accounting.
- Proven leadership and stakeholder management in a growth environment.
- Experience with ERP systems such as Xero and Sage X3.
Responsibilities
- Lead month-end across all group entities and produce consolidated accounts.
- Own balance sheet integrity and reconciliations; ensure audit readiness.
- Oversee cashflow forecasting, banking and treasury management.
- Manage payroll, VAT, and statutory compliance processes.
- Partner with operational leaders to drive commercial performance and cost optimization.
- Support acquisitions, due diligence, and post-acquisition integration.
- Drive finance systems transformation, automation and controls improvements.
- Lead and develop the finance team for resilience and succession planning.
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Job description
Sheffield Head Office | Full-Time | £40m Group Turnover | 6 Legal Entities
We're looking for an ambitious and commercially minded Group Finance Manager to join our growing business at an exciting stage of its journey. Reporting directly to the Group Financial Controller, you'll take ownership of the finance function across six legal entities, ensuring robust financial control, high-quality reporting, effective cash management and scalable processes that support continued growth.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a qualified finance professional who enjoys combining hands-on financial leadership with strategic business partnering. You'll play a key role in improving systems and processes, supporting acquisitions, developing a talented finance team and providing financial insight that helps drive business performance.
As Group Finance Manager, you will be responsible for the delivery of accurate and timely financial reporting across the group, whilst ensuring strong governance, balance sheet integrity and effective risk management. You will act as a trusted business partner to senior stakeholders, helping shape decisions through commercial analysis and financial insight.
Beyond the day-to-day financial management, you'll contribute to acquisition and integration projects, support the transition from Xero to Sage X3, and champion continuous improvement across finance systems, controls and processes.
- Lead the month-end process across all group entities.
- Produce and review consolidated management accounts, variance analysis and performance commentary.
- Manage intercompany accounting and reconciliations.
- Ensure compliance with group accounting policies and reporting standards.
- Maintain complete ownership of balance sheet integrity across the group.
- Review, challenge and approve reconciliations.
- Resolve legacy and reconciling items.
- Ensure audit-ready records and supporting documentation.
- Manage banking relationships and cash positions across the group.
- Own cashflow forecasting and reporting.
- Authorise payments within established controls.
- Monitor cash movements and provide visibility to senior stakeholders.
- Review and approve payroll processes.
- Oversee VAT returns and related compliance requirements.
- Support year-end accounts preparation and external audits.
- Build effective relationships with auditors and external advisors.
- Support financial modelling, forecasting and commercial analysis.
- Partner with operational leaders to improve business performance.
- Provide proactive challenge, insight and recommendations.
- Identify opportunities, risks and cost-saving initiatives.
- Assess finance processes and controls within acquired businesses.
- Assist with integration activities, reporting alignment and control implementation.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across newly acquired companies.
- Help lead the finance systems roadmap, supporting the transition from Xero to Sage X3.
- Drive automation, standardisation and process improvements.
- Strengthen financial controls and governance across the group.
- Embed best practice policies and procedures.
- Lead, coach and develop the finance team.
- Create a high-performance, collaborative culture.
- Ensure resilience, succession planning and capability development within the function.
Sheffield Head Office | Full-Time | £40m Group Turnover | 6 Legal Entities
We're looking for an ambitious and commercially minded Group Finance Manager to join our growing business at an exciting stage of its journey. Reporting directly to the Group Financial Controller, you'll take ownership of the finance function across six legal entities, ensuring robust financial control, high-quality reporting, effective cash management and scalable processes that support continued growth.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a qualified finance professional who enjoys combining hands-on financial leadership with strategic business partnering. You'll play a key role in improving systems and processes, supporting acquisitions, developing a talented finance team and providing financial insight that helps drive business performance.
As Group Finance Manager, you will be responsible for the delivery of accurate and timely financial reporting across the group, whilst ensuring strong governance, balance sheet integrity and effective risk management. You will act as a trusted business partner to senior stakeholders, helping shape decisions through commercial analysis and financial insight.
Beyond the day-to-day financial management, you'll contribute to acquisition and integration projects, support the transition from Xero to Sage X3, and champion continuous improvement across finance systems, controls and processes.
- Lead the month-end process across all group entities.
- Produce and review consolidated management accounts, variance analysis and performance commentary.
- Manage intercompany accounting and reconciliations.
- Ensure compliance with group accounting policies and reporting standards.
- Maintain complete ownership of balance sheet integrity across the group.
- Review, challenge and approve reconciliations.
- Resolve legacy and reconciling items.
- Ensure audit-ready records and supporting documentation.
- Manage banking relationships and cash positions across the group.
- Own cashflow forecasting and reporting.
- Authorise payments within established controls.
- Monitor cash movements and provide visibility to senior stakeholders.
- Review and approve payroll processes.
- Oversee VAT returns and related compliance requirements.
- Support year-end accounts preparation and external audits.
- Build effective relationships with auditors and external advisors.
- Support financial modelling, forecasting and commercial analysis.
- Partner with operational leaders to improve business performance.
- Provide proactive challenge, insight and recommendations.
- Identify opportunities, risks and cost-saving initiatives.
- Support finance due diligence activities during acquisitions.
- Assess finance processes and controls within acquired businesses.
- Assist with integration activities, reporting alignment and control implementation.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across newly acquired companies.
- Help lead the finance systems roadmap, supporting the transition from Xero to Sage X3.
- Drive automation, standardisation and process improvements.
- Strengthen financial controls and governance across the group.
- Embed best practice policies and procedures.
- Lead, coach and develop the finance team.
- Create a high-performance, collaborative culture.
- Ensure resilience, succession planning and capability development within the function.
You are a qualified accountant with strong technical expertise and a proven track record in a multi-entity environment. Equally comfortable in the detail and the bigger picture, you thrive in fast-paced businesses where you can influence change and make a tangible impact.
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified.
- Significant management accounting experience within a group or multi-entity environment.
- Strong understanding of consolidations, intercompany accounting and balance sheet control.
- Experience managing month-end processes and management reporting.
- Cashflow management, payment authorisation and payroll oversight experience.
- Strong financial controls and risk management capability.
- Experience leading and developing finance professionals.
- Advanced finance systems knowledge, including Xero, Sage X3 or similar ERP platforms.
- Acquisition and business integration experience.
- SOX controls environment exposure.
- Experience operating within a £30m-£50m turnover business.
- Finance system implementation or ERP transformation experience.
- Commercially astute with a strong control mindset.
- Proactive, pragmatic and solutions-focused.
- Comfortable operating in a changing and fast-growing environment.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.
- Naturally curious with a passion for continuous improvement.
- Takes ownership and delivers results.
This is an opportunity to join a successful and expanding group where finance plays a central role in driving growth. You'll have genuine influence, exposure to acquisition activity, the chance to shape finance processes and systems, and the opportunity to develop your career within a dynamic leadership team.
If you're looking for a role where you can combine technical excellence, commercial impact and people leadership, we'd love to hear from you.
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