Senior Finance Manager

Axon Moore; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working (3 days in office)

Senior leadership exposure

Career development opportunities

Automation & process improvement

High-performing team leadership

Job summary

Axon Moore are partnering with a high-profile consumer business in Manchester to recruit a Senior Finance Manager. The role leads a finance team, shapes reporting across multiple entities and drives transformation across the reporting hub.

You will oversee month-end, balance sheet controls and P&L management while partnering with commercial finance and IT to deliver robust controls and actionable insights.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACA/ACCA/CIMA and significant post-qualification experience.
• Strong track record of leading finance teams.
• Experience in complex, multi-entity environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the team to create a high-performing culture.
• Own the month-end close, ensure timely reporting.
• Oversee divisional P&Ls, balance sheets, accruals and provisions.
• Maintain UK GAAP-compliant financial reporting controls.
• Drive automation and standardisation of finance processes.
• Partner with Commercial Finance, Group Finance, IT and stakeholders.
• Provide leadership and insight to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Financial leadership

Month-end reporting

P&L accounting

UK GAAP

Stakeholder management

Automation

Finance systems

People development

Finance transformation

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Job description

Senior Finance Manager | Central MCR (3 days in office) |£75,000 - £85,000 + benefits

Axon Moore are delighted to be partnering with ahigh profile consumer facing business to recruit a Senior Finance Manager, this is an exceptional client of ours having placed over 4 qualified accountants into this team over the last 2 years.

Offering the chance tolead a high-performing team, influence the wider finance strategy and transform the way financial reporting is delivered across a complex, multi-business organisation.

The Role

Taking responsibility for the delivery of accurate, timely and well governed accounting and reporting across multiple business areas.

This is a broad and influential role combiningpeople leadership, financial control, month-end reporting, stakeholder management and finance transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the team, creating a high-performing and inclusive culture
• Take ownership of the month-end close process, ensuring accurate and timely reporting
• Oversee divisional P&Ls, balance sheet controls, accruals, provisions and variance analysis
• Ensure financial reporting is delivered in accordance with Group Accounting Policy and UK GAAP
• Maintain strong financial controls and promote a robust reporting culture
• Partner with Commercial Finance, Group Finance, IT and wider business stakeholders
• Identify opportunities tosimplify, standardise and automatemonth-end processes
• Lead improvements to the Finance Reporting Hub and its delivery model
• Ensure agreed service levels are consistently achieved and proactively resolve reporting issues
• Provide strong financial leadership and insight to senior stakeholders across the organisation
• Develop talent through effective coaching, mentoring and performance management

About You

We're looking for aqualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)with significant post-qualification experience and a strong track record of leading finance teams.

You’ll ideally have:

• Proven experience managing and developing accounting or financial reporting teams.
• Strong technical accounting and financial control expertise.
• Experience within a complex, multi-entity or multi-business environment.
• Excellent knowledge of month-end reporting, P&L and balance sheet accounting.
• Strong understanding of UK GAAP and financial reporting controls.
• A track record of improving, standardising or automating finance processes.
• Strong systems knowledge and an understanding of finance data flows and integrations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to balance robust financial control with commercial requirements.
• A genuine passion for developing people and building high-performing teams.
• A continuous improvement mindset, with the confidence to challenge existing ways of working.

What's on Offer?

• £75,000 - £85,000 salary
• Manchester City Centre location
• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office
• Significant exposure to senior finance leadership
• Leadership responsibility within a high-performing team
• Scope to drive automation, standardisation and process improvement
• Excellent career development opportunities
• Opportunity to work across a portfolio of well-known brands

The Opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity for an experiencedFinance Manager / Senior Finance Manager / Financial Controller / Business Accounting professionallooking to step into a genuinely influential leadership position.

You’ll be joining an organisation undergoing an exciting period of growth and transformation, with the opportunity toshape how financial reporting operates, develop a talented team and deliver meaningful improvements across the wider Group.

If you're a qualified accountant with strong leadership experience and a passion forfinancial control, reporting, transformation and people development, we'd love to hear from you