Finance Manager

This Finance Manager will be responsible for conducting financial analysis and business performance reviews on an ongoing basis, to co-ordinate and support the preparation of budgets, to prepare and review investment proposals and to fulfil ad-hoc and special group related reporting requirements.

Client Details

My client are a large market leading firm who are forecast to grow significantly across all of their sites, including Evesham, in 2017.

Description

The responsibilites for this Finance Manager role are:

• Management oversight of all aspects of Receivables/Payables/Credit Control/VAT/Fixed Assets/Accruals/Prepayments /Job costing/Customer Profitability Analysis/IFRS compliance/Cost Centre management & Productivity reporting.

• Profitability Analysis including preparing, consolidating and analyzing forecast data provided by operations, and converting into financial (client by client) profitability analysis within a shared user facility

• Responsible for accurately forecasting the profitability of the business model on an annual basis with re-forecasts quarterly.

• Development and continuous improvement of a management system (dashboard) to proactively ensure that forecast profitability is achieved

• Supervise and develop the reporting and monitoring of Distribution of departmental cost centre spending and activity based costing. Ensure line management accountability and countermeasure as necessary.

• Prepare and present financial modelling scenarios

• Maintaining and upgrading the internal control systems
• Supporting the development of the annual business plan & budgetary cycle.
• Support RFQ responses and financial modelling of charge/cost proposals; governance of proposed new or contract amendments to mitigate risk and financial exposure
  
• Preparation and support for client review meetings where applicable.

Profile

The ideal candidate for this Finance Manager role would have:

• Extensive experience in all areas of accounting (CIMA/ACCA qualified), knowledge of IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) and of investment criteria such as e.g. the IRR (Internal Rate of Return) concept, as well as general all-round accountancy knowledge.

• Significant experience as a user of SAP, with extensive knowledge and understanding of best practice in financial reporting.

• Knowledge and experience of working within the Transport and Warehouse Industry

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to think laterally with a strategic perspective.

• Able to convey complex data and concepts to all levels of the organisation and to achieve agreement with key stakeholders and decision makers in a manner that they are able to understand.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills both written and spoken; able to build effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.

• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills.

• Highly attentive to detail.

Job Offer

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