Interim Finance Manager

This position has arisen to cover a maternity leave in the business and will be a 9-12 month fixed term contract position

Client Details

My client are a SME manufacturing business based in the Gloucestershire area and are market leading in their field of expertise

Description

The main responsibilities in this role are:

• To maintain the integrity of system data and the nominal ledger through review of transactions, reconciliations, and journal entries, ensuring expenditure is allocated and monitored accurately
• Acting as business partner to key stakeholders of the business on financial performance and KPIs
• Management of finance team
• Preparation and reporting of monthly financial statements, group reporting, variance analysis and other financial reports/presentations to support and inform business decisions
• Monitoring, analysis and reporting on the impact of cost changes within the business
• Analysis of financial KPIs to give support to business decisions
• Implement and maintain the standard cost system; ensuring costing is accurate and consistent
• Responsibility for the preparation of forecasts and annual budget
• Preparation of the annual accounts and liaising with auditors as necessary
• To contribute to regular and ad hoc business projects
• Development of reporting through system/process enhancements

Profile

The successful candidate for this position will have:

• Ideally a recognised accountancy qualification (ACCA/ACA/CIMA)
• Strong leadership skills and a track record of managing finance teams
• Experience of preparing monthly management accounts
• Experience of overseeing transactional processing & credit control
• Good technical skills to include preparation of statutory accounts
• Demonstrable ability to engage with, support and challenge key stakeholders within the business.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as an active team player

• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to prioritise and multi-task
• Strong IT skills, particularly with MS Excel
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills

Job Offer

A competitive salary is on offer and a very quick start for the right candidate. Please note this is a fixed term contract and a day rate is not an option for this role.