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Finance Manager, Sports, Central London, £60-65,000
We're working with an exciting, fast-scaling sports business looking for a hands-on, commercially minded Finance Manager to join and help shape a growing finance function.
Reporting to the Head of Finance, this is a broad role offering genuine ownership across financial operations, management reporting, technical accounting, budgeting, forecasting and finance systems.
The role
You'll take ownership of the day-to-day finance function while playing a key role in building the processes, controls and reporting infrastructure needed to support continued growth.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning AP, AR, expenses, banking and balance sheet reconciliations
- Leading the month-end close and management accounts, including meaningful variance analysis
- Managing 13-week and 12-month cash forecasting
- Supporting budgets, reforecasts and departmental spend reviews
- Preparing FRS 102 financial statements and supporting the annual audit
- Providing financial insight and analysis to senior stakeholders, including the Board and Audit & Risk Committee
- Improving finance systems, processes and controls as the business scales
- Supporting commercial projects, risk management and wider strategic initiatives
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What we're looking for
We're looking for a qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) who combines strong technical accounting knowledge with a genuinely commercial mindset.
You'll ideally have:
- Strong experience across management accounts, financial reporting and cash forecasting
- Solid FRS 102 knowledge and confidence around accounting judgements
- Experience within a start-up, scale-up or high-growth environment
- Excellent Excel and financial systems capability
- A proactive, solutions-focused approach and the confidence to take ownership and make things happen
- The ability to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders
- Ideally, experience within Sports, Media or Entertainment
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