Financial Accounts Manager

Job Title: Financial Accounts Manager

Location: Central Bristol

Salary: Competitive, on application

Ref: VLL17852

Purpose of the role:

Reporting into the Financial Controller, managing one Qualified Financial Accountant. You will be responsible for budget processes, maintaining good relationships with budget holders, working closely with people across the business to ensure the success of business planning, budgeting and financial reporting processes.

Specific duties include:

• Supporting demanding commercial and regulatory objectives.
• Responsible for managing the preparation of a wide range of financial reports, including the financial accounts.
• You will work very closely with external auditors to ensure the smooth running of the annual financial audit.
• The ability to form good working relationships is essential, as you will collaborate with senior management to review and analyse income and expenditure, and carry out ad hoc audits to ensure the integrity and effectiveness of financial controls.
• You should have excellent communication skills and be able to convey technical financial issues to a wide variety of people.
• Commercially aware and astute you will be able to recognise opportunities for change and improvement.
• This role will be busy, with varying demands and conflicting priorities. Therefore you should be organised, flexible and able to manage your own workload.

Experience and Qualifications required:

• Qualified ACA/ACCA with a strong academic record.
• Commercially focused, able to identify opportunity for change and improvement.
• Excellent communications skills, able to build relationships with budget holders, challenging assumptions and provide explanation and understanding to non finance personnel.

Footnote

If your application is successful we will contact you to discuss the opportunity in more detail, within 72 hours of receiving your application.

Due to the overwhelming Application response we receive through various sources should you not hear from us within one week then please assume your application has been unsuccessful.

Please be advised that if unsuccessful for this role we may keep your details in our hold file for 6 months, during which time you may be contacted for other suitable vacancies.  If you do not want us to do this please call us.

In the meantime, we would like to thank you for your interest in Cavendish Maine.