Interim Finance Manager

Eden Scott; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Eden Scott is partnering with an established organisation in Edinburgh to appoint an Interim Finance Manager who will take responsibility for day-to-day finance operations and lead the finance team.

The role is fixed-term until April 2027 with Edinburgh base and flexible working. You will manage monthly reporting, partner with budget holders, and provide clear financial insight to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified, part-qualified or qualified by experience
• Strong management accounting experience
• Experience in financial planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Proven business partnering with operational and senior stakeholders
• Experience leading and developing a finance team
• Ability to review financial information and communicate concerns clearly

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage an accounting, finance and payroll team.
• Own monthly management accounts and reporting timetable.
• Review management information, variance analysis and financial performance.
• Work with budget holders to improve financial understanding and decision-making.
• Coordinate annual budgets, forecasts and cash-flow projections.
• Oversee other finance functions (accounts, cash management, ledgers, fixed assets, audit liaison and systems).

Skills

Management accounting

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial planning

Business partnering

Team leadership

Education

Fully qualified

Part-qualified

Qualified by experience

Job description

Interim Finance Manager, Salary £55K, Edinburgh Based with flexible working

An established organisation is looking to appoint an experienced Interim Finance Manager to take responsibility for its day-to-day finance operation and provide leadership to an established accounting and finance team.

This is a fixed term role until April 2027. This role is based in Edinburgh with flexible working.

This is a broad, hands-on role requiring someone who can quickly take control of the monthly reporting cycle, support budget holders and provide clear financial insight to senior stakeholders. Alongside strong management accounting and business partnering experience, you must be comfortable setting priorities, managing deadlines and providing visible leadership to a sizeable finance team.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and managing an accounting, finance and payroll team
• Taking ownership of the monthly management accounts and reporting timetable
• Reviewing management information, variance analysis and financial performance
• Working closely with budget holders to improve financial understanding and decision-making
• Coordinating annual budgets, forecasts and cash-flow projections

The position has responsibility for management accounts, budgets and forecasts, statutory accounts, cash management, payroll, ledgers, fixed assets, audit liaison and financial systems, alongside the direct management of the wider finance team.

We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:

• Candidates can be fully qualified, part-qualified or qualified-by-experience
• Strong management accounting experience within an organisation
• Practical experience of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting
• A successful track record of business partnering with operational and senior stakeholders
• Previous responsibility for leading, organising and developing an accounting and finance team
• The ability to review financial information, identify areas of concern and communicate these clearly