Interim Finance Manager

Interim Finance Manager

Hemingways Marketing Services Ltd

Ripon (Hybrid working possible)

Generous Day rate

6 months

Marks Sattin are delighted to be working with Hemingways to find their next Interim Finance Manager. This is an excellent working opportunity to be part of their company journey and help them accelerate their growth.

About Hemingways

Hemingways Marketing Services Ltd is the UK's leading online resource for all major UK gift cards, vouchers and e-vouchers, home to Voucher Express, Cadbury Gifts Direct and Green & Black's. Based in Ripon, North Yorkshire.

They are a fast track business ranking within the region's top 100 fastest growing companies and listed in the FT's 1000 fastest growing UK companies. They offer a fantastic working environment & a competitive day rate. Their current work force numbers over 120.

A great opportunity to join a fast growing company in Ripon...

This is an unparalleled opportunity to join an outstanding finance department in one of Yorkshire's fastest growing businesses. Hemingways Group Holdings Ltd ranks 26th in the list of fastest growing private companies in the Yorkshire region based on turnover figures from 2018 to 2020. The company also currently ranks 128th in Business Insider's top 500 best-performing, biggest companies in Yorkshire and the Humber. But our success isn't limited to the UK, we also have commercial gift card operations trading through our legal entities in Amsterdam and Sydney!

As our new finance manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the finance department operations. The role is quite a hands-on role, and requires experience in managing staff to provide leadership and improve processes when necessary.

About your new role as Finance Manager at Hemingways in Ripon (hybrid)

Your responsibilities

• Manage the daily finance team functions, including credit control, banking and cashbook reconciliations, purchase ledger and sales invoice processing
• Prepare monthly management accounts packs for review by directors, including commercial commentary on material variances
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Prepare quarterly VAT returns
• Staff management of six and working closely with FD on optimising finance dept structure to align with company growth
• Liaising with external auditors on year end audit process
• Communicating with all stakeholders, including key retail suppliers, on commercial queries when necessary
• Provide or assist in producing value added finance information on an ad-hoc basis
• Collaborate with the commercial accountant to provide commercial finance insight

About you and your experience

• To be successfully considered for this exceptional role at Hemingways in Ripon, you must be a commercially aware Finance Manager with an accountancy qualification (ACCA / ACA / CIMA). The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and proven experience managing a team.
• Ideally, you will have experience working in ecommerce or similar, but this is not a deal-breaker.