Finance Manager

AXELOS is an exciting, young and dynamic company with globally recognised brands in the field of Best Practice Management. A joint venture between Capita and the Cabinet Office, AXELOS has ambitious plans and is looking for like-minded individuals to join our growing team.

Our Products

AXELOS is responsible for developing, enhancing and promoting a number of best practice methodologies and frameworks used globally by professionals working primarily in project, programme and portfolio management, IT service management and cyber security.

The methodologies, including ITIL®, PRINCE2®, MSP® and the new collection of cyber resilience best practice products, RESILIA™, are adopted by private, public and voluntary sectors in more than 150 countries to improve employees' skills, knowledge and competence to make both individuals and organisations work more effectively.

AXELOS is committed to nurturing best practice communities on a global scale. In addition to globally recognized qualifications, AXELOS equips professionals with a wide range of content, templates, awareness training and toolkits through AXELOS Membership and its online community of practitioners and experts.

Our Mission

Our mission is to make individuals and organisations more effective by providing practical guidance, content and qualifications distilled from real world experience and developing practices.

Role Summary

The Finance Manager will have overall responsibility for ensuring a complete and accurate set of Management Accounts are produced by the team, which will be used in creating AXELOS's financial statements. The Finance Manager will own the financial reporting process and deliver outputs to various stakeholders including the Executive Leadership team, the AXELOS Board and Capita Group.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for the month-end process; ensuring an accurate set of Management Accounts is produced by the team in a timely manner.
• Creation and ownership of the:

• Monthly Performance Pack for the Executive Leadership Team, which reports on all KPI's (financial and commercial) across the organisation
• Monthly Board Pack which report financial performance to the AXELOS Board
• Monthly shareholder Management Accounting Pack, which includes a view of AXELOS's financial statements
• Monthly Performance Report (MPR) which includes the reporting of financial and non-financial performance to Capita Group

• Ad-hoc reporting requests from the business and shareholders
• Supporting with the interim and year end external audit
• Working with the Project Management team to track and report project progress against business case assumptions and forecast
• Ownership and co-ordination of the annual business plan; working with the business to produce realistic cost budgets/challenging revenue targets. Ensuring that financial plans are in synch with the overall strategy/ objectives of the organisation and seeking buy-in from shareholders of said plans
• Managerial responsibilities for the Management Accountant and Accuracy and timeliness of Management Accounts and all reporting

Key Indicators

• Ability to proactively tailor reports as required to meet the needs of the business and deliver value
• Finance Associate (direct reports)

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience in a Finance Manager or comparable role
• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

• The ability to deliver against deadlines
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Intermediate level Excel skills
• The ability to question and challenge, as appropriate, on own initiative

Desirable

• Advanced level Excel skills
• Knowledge of SAP/ Axiom financial software packages

OUR VALUES

Capita's values are at the heart of our business. We believe that our colleagues should be Open, Ingenious, Collaborative and Effective; honest, straight-talking people who are highly intelligent and creative, who work brilliantly as part of a team or leading a team, and who never accept mediocrity. We're looking for people that personify Capita's values, who get involved in different things, deliver what they promise, take responsibility, embrace diversity, and respect their colleagues. In return we can offer you an excellent salary and benefits to match.

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If you are successful with your application, you will need complete Capita's vetting and screening checks. This will include, but not be limited to, Reference Checks, a Criminality Check, Financial Probity Check, Sanctions Check and Media Check.