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Finance Manager
Job summary
A dynamic retail group is seeking a Finance Manager to oversee their internal finance function in Bath. This role offers the chance to work closely with the Managing Director, providing strategic influence and hands-on accounting. Key responsibilities include managing financial processes, preparing management accounts, and supporting budgeting and analysis. Ideal candidates will possess strong analytical skills and a finance qualification, with mentorship opportunities for future leadership roles in a growing business.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Qualified by experience, part qualified or qualified in finance.
- Highly analytical with excellent attention to detail.
Responsibilities
- Oversee day-to-day transactional finance and accurate postings.
- Prepare monthly management accounts with commentary and insights.
- Support budgeting, cost control, and margin analysis.
Skills
Education
£50,000 to £55,000 + Bonus, Bath (Office Based)
I am exclusively partnering with my client to recruit a Finance Manager for their growing retail group. This is a brand-new role within the business, created as they transition their accounting operations in-house. This is a fantastic opportunity for a commercially minded Finance Manager to take full ownership of the internal finance function. Working closely with the Managing Director, you'll become the financial heartbeat of the organisation – balancing hands‑on accounting with genuine strategic influence. You’ll also benefit from ongoing mentoring from a part‑time Virtual Finance Director, as the business supports your progression into a future senior leadership role.
- Oversee all day‑to‑day transactional finance, ensuring accurate postings, reconciliations, and robust cash‑flow forecasting.
- Manage service charge reconciliations and track, verify, and report supplier rebates and associated accruals.
- Prepare monthly management accounts (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) with clear commentary, KPIs, and commercial insight for the Managing Director.
- Monitor business performance, analyse trends, and maintain dashboards alongside delivering ad hoc reporting.
- Support budgeting, cost control, margin analysis, and broader commercial decision‑making.
- Strengthen and document financial processes, approvals, controls, and drive efficiencies across reporting and internal systems.
- Partner closely with the MD on pricing, new business development, strategic projects, and the identification of risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities – with support from the Virtual Finance Director.
- Qualified by experience, part qualified or qualified.
- Highly analytical, excellent attention to detail.
- A key finance role within a growing, dynamic business.
- Close collaboration with the Managing Director on commercial and financial decision‑making.
- Mentoring from an experienced Virtual Finance Director.
- A clear long‑term progression pathway, including potential to step into a senior leadership role as the business expands.
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