Transactional Finance Manager (contract)
Posted 4 days ago by Ivy Rock Partners
£70,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Transactional Finance Manager role at Ivy Rock Partners involves leading a high-performing finance operations team on a 12-month fixed-term contract within an educational organization. The position focuses on overseeing key financial operations, ensuring compliance, and driving service excellence during a period of transformation. The successful candidate will manage accounts payable, receivable, and banking transactions while implementing process improvements and maintaining strong financial controls.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading and developing a finance operations team, providing clear direction, support and accountability.
- Ensuring timely and accurate processing of accounts payable, accounts receivable and banking transactions.
- Overseeing balance sheet reconciliations and maintaining the integrity of financial control processes.
- Managing debt recovery activities and supporting cash collection performance.
- Reviewing and approving payment runs and other banking transactions.
- Supporting fraud prevention initiatives and strengthening financial controls.
- Working closely with finance systems colleagues to enhance reporting, processes and system functionality.
- Monitoring regulatory developments and ensuring compliance with relevant financial policies and procedures.
- Leading process improvement initiatives and implementing best practice across finance operations.
- Building strong relationships with stakeholders across the wider organisation and providing guidance on financial procedures and controls.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience managing finance operations teams within a complex organisation.
- Strong knowledge of accounts payable, accounts receivable, banking and financial controls.
- Experience managing financial transactions, reconciliations and compliance processes.
- The ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
- A track record of improving processes, controls and service delivery.
- Experience leading or contributing to cross-functional projects and organisational change initiatives.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
- Strong systems capability and advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Higher Education or Further Education sector experience is desired.
Salary (Rate): £70,000.00 yearly
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
Ivy Rock Partners is working with an outstanding educational organisation to recruit a Transactional Finance Manager on a 12-month fixed-term contract. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced finance operations professional to lead a high-performing transactional finance function during a period of ongoing transformation and improvement. Reporting into the senior finance leadership team, you will oversee key financial operations, ensure robust financial controls, and drive service excellence across the organisation.
The Role
You will lead a transactional finance team responsible for accounts payable, accounts receivable, banking, payments and financial services administration. The successful candidate will ensure efficient and effective financial transaction processing, maintain strong governance and compliance standards, and identify opportunities to improve processes, systems and controls.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and developing a finance operations team, providing clear direction, support and accountability.
- Ensuring timely and accurate processing of accounts payable, accounts receivable and banking transactions.
- Overseeing balance sheet reconciliations and maintaining the integrity of financial control processes.
- Managing debt recovery activities and supporting cash collection performance.
- Reviewing and approving payment runs and other banking transactions.
- Supporting fraud prevention initiatives and strengthening financial controls.
- Working closely with finance systems colleagues to enhance reporting, processes and system functionality.
- Monitoring regulatory developments and ensuring compliance with relevant financial policies and procedures.
- Leading process improvement initiatives and implementing best practice across finance operations.
- Building strong relationships with stakeholders across the wider organisation and providing guidance on financial procedures and controls.
About You
We are seeking an experienced finance professional with a strong background in financial operations and team leadership. You will have:
- Proven experience managing finance operations teams within a complex organisation.
- Strong knowledge of accounts payable, accounts receivable, banking and financial controls.
- Experience managing financial transactions, reconciliations and compliance processes.
- The ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
- A track record of improving processes, controls and service delivery.
- Experience leading or contributing to cross-functional projects and organisational change initiatives.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
- Strong systems capability and advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Higher Education or Further Education sector experience is desired.
What's on Offer
Competitive annual leave and pension. Flexible hybrid working arrangements. A 12-month fixed-term contract. For more information or to discuss the opportunity in confidence, please contact Megan Hunter.