Interim Finance Manager

The role will play a key part in maintaining, shaping and developing Financial reporting capabilities, processes & procedures and control. This is a great opportunity to work with a rapidly growing business on an interim basis during a busy period.

Client Details

Our client are an innovative fast-growing business and a leader in their field.

Description

Finance Manager will be responsible for a number of areas including:

- Managing and reviewing end-to-end reconciliations to ensure that transactions taking place on the website and other systems are properly reflected in the ERP system

- Period end reporting including management accounts and other deliverables for the Management Team and other stakeholders

- Monitoring controls and reconciliations to ensure that underlying processes and financial reporting are well managed and tightly controlled

- Ownership of VAT returns and other reporting

- Overseeing / performing testing of Business Central, our ERP system, following development work (e. implementation of new workflows, development of new import files and bank export files, transactions relating to new products)

- Working with colleagues across the business to understand new products & services which are proposed, ensure that finance requirements are scoped into the development plan, and that the correct transactions are captured

- Working closely with non-finance teams to ensure that operational and administrative activities which touch on finance are adequately controlled

- Reporting to banks in respect of inventory which is funded by an Asset Backed Lending facility

- Managing bulk purchases, which requires a strong working relationship with the operations team and our colleagues in group companies

- Participation in ad-hoc projects

Profile

- Qualified accountant with appropriate qualifications (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

- Available immediately or at short notice for an initial interim role

- Excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills

- Track record of managing and developing a finance team

- Passion for finding solutions to enhance performance Background in financial control & financial reporting

- Well-organised with excellent attention to detail and the ability to multi-task

- Strong, current technical skills

- Experience of improving financial and operational processes

- Articulate, persuasive, confident, possessing sound intellect; a self-starter with the ability to combine professional rigour with practical business requirements

Job Offer

Our client are offering the chance to join their successful growing organisation with an ASAP interim start at a competitive rate. There could be the potential for a permanent role in the future, although this is not guaranteed.