Head of Finance
Posted 5 days ago by SF Recruitment
£80,000 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Summary: The Head of Finance will lead the finance and payroll function of a well-established organization, ensuring strong financial controls and high-quality reporting. This role involves managing a small finance team and acting as a trusted business partner to stakeholders. The position is based in Birmingham with hybrid working arrangements. Key responsibilities include producing financial reports, developing financial controls, and overseeing treasury activities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Producing monthly management accounts and financial reports within agreed timelines
- Developing and maintaining a robust financial control environment, including processes, documentation, and systems
- Leading, mentoring, and developing a finance team with direct line management responsibility
- Integrating payroll and benefits activity fully into the finance function
- Reconciling income and costs to source data to produce meaningful management information
- Preparing monthly cashflow forecasts for senior review
- Acting as a trusted business partner to stakeholders, providing financial insight to drive operational and financial improvement
- Managing relationships with external auditors and tax advisors, ensuring statutory deadlines are met
- Supporting the annual budget process and quarterly re-forecasting
- Overseeing day-to-day treasury activities
- Preparing and submitting VAT returns and other regulatory submissions
- Ensuring payroll accuracy, authorisations, and statutory reporting, while supporting system implementation and improvement projects
Key Skills:
- Experience in finance management and leadership
- Strong knowledge of financial controls and reporting
- Ability to mentor and develop a finance team
- Experience with payroll integration and management
- Strong analytical skills for financial data reconciliation
- Experience in cashflow forecasting and budgeting
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Knowledge of VAT and regulatory submissions
- Experience with treasury activities
Salary (Rate): £80,000 per annum
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
SF Recruitment is working with a with a well-established organisation seeking an experienced Head of Finance to lead its finance and payroll function. This is a key role, responsible for ensuring strong financial controls, high-quality reporting, and effective leadership of a small finance team. Based in Birmingham (Hybrid working) Key tasks: - Producing monthly management accounts and financial reports within agreed timelines - Developing and maintaining a robust financial control environment, including processes, documentation, and systems - Leading, mentoring, and developing a finance team with direct line management responsibility - Integrating payroll and benefits activity fully into the finance function - Reconciling income and costs to source data to produce meaningful management information - Preparing monthly cashflow forecasts for senior review - Acting as a trusted business partner to stakeholders, providing financial insight to drive operational and financial improvement - Managing relationships with external auditors and tax advisors, ensuring statutory deadlines are met - Supporting the annual budget process and quarterly re-forecasting - Overseeing day-to-day treasury activities - Preparing and submitting VAT returns and other regulatory submissions - Ensuring payroll accuracy, authorisations, and statutory reporting, while supporting system implementation and improvement projects Please get in touch if this sounds of interest.