Senior Finance Manager
- Recruiter
- Succession Partners
- Location
- Blackburn, Lancashire
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 21 May 2021
- Closes
- 18 Jun 2021
- Job Title
- Finance Manager
- Category
- Consumer products / FMCG
- Experience Levels
- Manager
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Exciting new opportunity to join a fast growth, international, PE backed as a Senior Finance Manager. This role requires a candidate with extensive management accounting exposure with the ability to be hands on whilst managing a developing team.
Responsibilities
- Preparation of monthly management accounts and provide first input into monthly management accounts
- Work with various stakeholders to support the development of understanding of key business processes and develop commercial and operational understanding
- Presentation of monthly numbers to the Financial Controller
- Preparation of key inputs into the board pack presented to senior management
- Provide Financial Controller with concise, and clear updates and ensure all issues are escalated in a timely manner
- Management and development of Management accountants and their assistants.
- Supporting the understanding and investigation of variance analysis relating to actuals vs budgets and forecasts and work closely with the commercial team
- Shadow and work closely with the Financial Controller to develop strong cross functional partnerships with across various departments (Fuel, Merchandising, Operations and Maintenance, Payroll, HR), documenting minutes and actions of key discussions
- Support the commercial finance team with information and performance analysis to drive decision making for local teams
- Lead in the preparation and review of accurate site p&l's for responsible functional are to ensure all numbers reported are accurate and discrepancies understood and investigated
- Assisting in key stages of system implementation programmes
- A Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
- A hands on attitude with experience working in a fast paced environment (FMCG, Retail, Sales & Distribution etc)
- Experienced managing a small team or be able to demonstrate leadership qualities
- A strong excel user with good general ERP system experience