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Finance Manager
Sector: Technology and IT Services
Location: Gloucestershire / 2-3 days a week onsite
All applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
About the Company
Our client provides Technology and Services to run, protect and grow their customers' businesses. They pride themselves on the quality of their people and the high level of service this enables them to deliver across a wide range of IT services and projects. They offer a friendly working environment where open learning, collaboration, feedback and support are encouraged. Over the past three years, their compound annual growth rate has grown in excess of 30%. They are looking for someone committed and ambitious to join them on their journey.
Purpose of the Role
This is a full-service finance role with hands-on, end-to-end responsibility for the day-to-day finance function. Working closely with group accounting, the role owns everything from day-to-day accounting and transaction processing, through the monthly management accounts, to financial data analysis that helps the business make informed decisions.
The finance function runs on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, interfaced with the company's primary line-of-business applications. A core expectation of the role is to complete all month-end tasks within five business days and to provide accurate, timely reporting to group accounting, acting as the main point of contact for their reporting and Q&A.
Role Requirements
Day-to-Day Accounting
- Maintaining day-to-day transactional processing in Business Central, including the sales ledger, purchase ledger, general ledger, bank postings and journals
- Processing accounts payable and accounts receivable, staff expenses and company card transactions accurately and on time
- Completing daily bank reconciliations and managing cash, keeping cashflow records up to date
- Running credit control and debt collection, and resolving customer and supplier queries promptly
- Ensuring correct nominal coding, VAT treatment and timely, accurate data entry across all ledgers
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Month-End and Management Accounts
- Completing all month-end close tasks within five (5) business days
- Preparing the monthly management accounts – profit and loss, balance sheet and cashflow – to agreed deadlines
- Posting accruals, prepayments, deferred and accrued income, depreciation and recurring journals
- Carrying out balance sheet reconciliations and keeping control accounts clean and fully reconciled
- Reconciling revenue and invoicing between the line-of-business systems and Business Central
- Producing variance analysis against budget and forecast, with clear and concise commentary
Systems, Data and Line-of-Business Integration
- Operating Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as the core finance platform
- Managing the interfaces between Business Central and the primary line-of-business applications
- Ensuring data flows and integrations are complete, accurate and reconcile end to end
- Maintaining the integrity of financial and billing data across all connected systems
Data Analysis and Reporting
- Analysing financial and operational data to provide insight that supports commercial decision-making
- Building and maintaining reports, KPIs and dashboards
- Providing accurate, timely financial information to budget holders and the management team
- Identifying trends, risks and opportunities in the numbers and flagging them early
Group Accounting Interface
- Submitting monthly reporting to group accounting in the required format and to the group timetable
- Acting as the main point of contact for group accounting, handling reporting queries and month-end Q&A
- Supporting group consolidation, intercompany reconciliations and periodic reporting
- Ensuring local reporting aligns with group accounting policies and standards
Compliance, Controls and Year-End
- Preparing and submitting quarterly VAT returns
- Maintaining strong financial controls, processes and supporting documentation
- Supporting the year-end statutory audit and reporting, working with group and external advisers
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Competencies
- Self-starter who can thrive in an environment where they need to take initiative and drive change
- Analytical and methodical with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Produces accurate and relevant financial reports that allow the business to make informed decisions
- Accurately reconciles actual spend with budgets to ensure spending is controlled and future budgets are accurate
- Develops, maintains and manages appropriate and efficient financial systems and policies
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Proactively builds own knowledge and experience
- Able to manage workload appropriately, prioritising tasks and recognising the impact of issues or delays
- Comfortable working both individually and contributing positively to team efforts
- Comfortable owning the full finance function end to end
- Well organised and deadline-driven, with the discipline to deliver a five business day month-end close
- Uses critical thinking and problem-solving skills to overcome challenges
- Openly shares knowledge with others and is friendly and approachable
- Demonstrates an understanding of the commercial pressures of a growing business
Technical Skills and Qualifications
- A recognised accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or AAT) – qualified, part-qualified, or qualified by experience
- Hands-on experience of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, or a comparable ERP or finance platform
- Experience of delivering a monthly management accounts close to tight deadlines
- Experience of working with integrated line-of-business systems and reconciling data between platforms
- Advanced MS Excel skills including formulae and financial calculations
- MSP experience a bonus
Salary and Benefits
- Salary: Up to £60,000 DOE
- Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 5:30pm
- Hybrid working
- Private healthcare
- Private dental
- Buy and sell annual leave
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