Finance Manager

Summary: The Finance Manager role involves overseeing financial operations within a manufacturing environment, focusing on financial control, cash management, and statutory reporting. The position requires collaboration with both finance and non-finance stakeholders to ensure compliance and accuracy in financial governance. The ideal candidate will possess hands-on experience in manufacturing finance and a strong grasp of cost control and cashflow management. This role is critical for maintaining financial integrity and supporting senior management with accurate reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain strong financial governance across the business, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and compliance.
• Oversee overall banking arrangements and ensure effective management of banking facilities.
• Ensure effective operation of the invoice discounting facility and actively minimise associated costs.
• Manage daily cash positions across the business.
• Create, review, and approve electronic payments in line with delegated authorities.
• Produce accurate cashflow forecasts on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
• Oversee all banking and cash reconciliations, ensuring timely resolution of discrepancies.
• Review completed Intrastat returns for accuracy and compliance.
• Assist in the preparation of annual statutory accounts and act as a key point of contact for external auditors.
• Maintain and develop robust financial controls and procedures across all divisions.
• Ensure consistent compliance with financial policies and processes.
• Identify opportunities for finance system and process improvements and work with the team to deliver agreed enhancements.
• Prepare consolidated accounts for senior management review.
• Review and reconcile balance sheets, ensuring integrity and accuracy.
• Review key financial reports and contribute to the preparation of Plc Board packs.

Key Skills:

• Strong experience in a production-led finance environment.
• Hands-on manufacturing finance experience.
• Understanding of cost control, working capital, and cashflow management.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, operational setting.
• Experience in financial governance and compliance.
• Proficiency in cash management and banking arrangements.
• Strong analytical skills for cashflow forecasting and financial reporting.
• Experience with statutory accounts preparation and external audits.
• Ability to identify and implement finance system improvements.
• Strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement.

Salary (Rate): £70,000 yearly

City: Yorkshire

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

We are partnering with a well-established manufacturing business to recruit a Finance Manager with strong experience in a production-led environment. This is a key operational finance role, supporting both finance and non-finance stakeholders, with responsibility for financial control, cash management, statutory reporting, and board-level reporting.

The successful candidate will bring hands-on manufacturing finance experience, a strong understanding of cost control, working capital, and cashflow, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, operational setting.

Key Accountabilities

• Maintain strong financial governance across the business, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and compliance.
• Oversee overall banking arrangements and ensure effective management of banking facilities.
• Ensure effective operation of the invoice discounting facility and actively minimise associated costs.
• Manage daily cash positions across the business.
• Create, review, and approve electronic payments in line with delegated authorities.
• Produce accurate cashflow forecasts on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
• Oversee all banking and cash reconciliations, ensuring timely resolution of discrepancies.
• Review completed Intrastat returns for accuracy and compliance.
• Assist in the preparation of annual statutory accounts and act as a key point of contact for external auditors.
• Maintain and develop robust financial controls and procedures across all divisions.
• Ensure consistent compliance with financial policies and processes.
• Identify opportunities for finance system and process improvements and work with the team to deliver agreed enhancements.
• Prepare consolidated accounts for senior management review.
• Review and reconcile balance sheets, ensuring integrity and accuracy.
• Review key financial reports and contribute to the preparation of Plc Board packs.

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