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Job Summary

The Assistant Finance Manager is key to assisting the Senior Finance Manager in preparing the monthly management accounts (P&L, Balance Sheet and Cashflow Reporting) and the supplementary reporting of data and information to the Group. The role is to run controlled finance processes and deliver accurate outputs in a timely manner.

The role will also act as a finance business partner to the Business Unit. This will include presenting monthly financial data to the BU management team.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage the monthly close process, ensuring a clean close of all sub-ledgers, interfaces, and accounting judgements, with the final results submitted into Group Finance by WD4
• Prepare and process month end journals
• Preparation of monthly management reporting for the BU. Include commentary which explains both YTD and full-year forecast variances from the budget (or forecast), for review by the SFM and FD and incorporate in the monthly BUMT Board Report. The analysis will reflect operational understanding.
• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations, including entries and accounts managed by central teams (e.g. Intercompany Recharges), ensuring that items are correctly analysed and any accounting anomalies are cleared on a timely basis. Highlighting issues to the SFM during the review
• Account, forecast and report on cost excesses/ savings
• Partner with BU departments to identify and achieve cost improvements
• Support SFM and FD in driving ERP system improvements across finance and the wider BU
• Contribute to the bi-annual budgeting and planning process
• Explanation and demonstration of the key budget outputs across BU departments, often to a non-financial audience.
• Ensure Finance Manual procedures are complied with and timely dispensation sought where appropriate.
• Support Senior Finance Manager with the external and internal audit processes, as well as statutory account preparation as required
• Engage with the BU teams to ensure TW Group's financial policy and statutory requirements are met and complied with throughout the BU
• Support the Senior Finance Manager and Finance Director by assisting in the preparation of financial information in an efficient and timely manner
• Provide cover for other members of the finance team as required
• Other Ad hoc projects, processes and procedures as required