Finance Manager

Finance Manager 

London

Up to £75,000

Dartmouth Partners have been retained by a high growth, physical products business based in the West End to find a Group Finance Manager to bolster their head office function. The company has a pan-European footprint and revenues in excess of £2 Billion. They are backed by one of the largest and most prolific private equity house's in the UK which has fuelled massive expansion through organic growth and acquisition. 

The business is now looking to consolidate their finance function and build a group finance team in their head office. The Group Finance Manager will be pivotal to this new function deputising for the Group Financial Controller and being a key point of contact for their investors.

Key Responsibilities of the Finance Manager:

• Oversight of the production of the Group monthly reporting pack for use by Executive Management, Private Equity owners, and lending banks
• Tracking of synergy benefits and performance versus PE business case and ensuring this is fed through to budgets/forecasts and actuals.
• Preparation for and work during exit, including possible IPO and production of listing particulars
• Working closely with the FP&A team to provide support and budgeting and forecasting process and analysis of actual vriances
• Closely monitor performance of acquisitions versus business case
• Responsible for accurate acquisition accounting (currently running at circa 10 acquisitions per year)
• Work with Treasury team to ensure consistency of information between financial system, and treasury reporting, including weekly bank reporting and 13 week cashflow forecasts
• Work alongside internal audit in ensuring that there is a good cost control environment across the Group, including performing periodic balance sheet reviews, covering key areas such as inventory provisioning and rebates in stock accounting.
• Work with Corporate Finance team in maintaining three year plans for supporting the business, and also for use with work on impairment and going concern reviews
• Support the Group Financial Controller in running the Year end audit process
• Ad-hoc papers for Audit Committee
• Valuation and accounting for interest rate hedges, embedded derivatives (within Preference Shares) and defined benefit pension accounting
• Maintain and control lease accounting module in consolidation system in accordance with IFRS 16

Key Requirements of the Finance Manager:

• Chartered Accountant from a top 10 audit firm
• Greater than 3 years post qualified experience working in a group function of an international business
• Strong understanding of IFRS
• Understanding of the principles of effective financial systems including process and control
• Strong analytics skills
• Excellent Interpersonal skills and adept at interacting with individuals at all levels in the business
• Committed to delivering to agreed timescales with a high degree of accuracy
• Flexible attitude towards working responsibilities and workload
• Effective working in teams, both within office and wider teams across the Group
• European Language skills would be an advantage

If you would like to be the new Finance Manager for a PE Backed consumer goods business please apply below now.