Tredz
Finance Manager (FTC - 12 months)
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Tredz Finance Manager
Tredz is looking for a Finance Manager who thrives on turning numbers into insight, leading a small team, and helping drive smarter, more profitable decisions across the business. For this role you will be hands on with management accounts, cashflow, payroll oversight, and financial analysis while also acting as a trusted partner to operational teams.
As part of the Tredz Leaders Group, you’ll have the chance to influence key business decisions, shape finance processes, and champion continuous improvement, all within a collaborative, values-driven culture.
Job Purpose
The Finance Manager plays a key operational role in delivering high quality management accounts, overseeing the payroll function, managing day-to-day banking and cash flow, and providing the business with vital financial analysis to help drive the profitability of the business.
Reporting to the Financial Controller, the Finance Manager is responsible for the preparation, coordination, and detailed execution of core finance processes, ensuring information is accurate, timely, and insight driven. The role supports robust financial control, provides commercial analysis to operational teams, and contributes to continuous improvement across finance processes and systems.
As a member of the Tredz Leaders Group, the Finance Manager provides trusted financial insight at an operational level, enabling informed decision-making while operating within the governance and strategic framework set by the Financial Controller.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Development
- Manage, coach, and develop two finance team members, ensuring accurate delivery of day-to-day finance activities and management information.
- Allocate workloads, set clear expectations, and monitor performance to ensure agreed outputs and deadlines are met.
- Set clear objectives aligned to business priorities and support colleagues through coaching, capability building, and structured development plans.
- Support the Financial Controller in fostering a collaborative, values-led finance culture focused on accountability, continuous improvement, and professional development.
Financial Control & Compliance
- Coordinate and deliver the month end and year end close processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and completeness with insightful performance analysis for review by the financial controller.
- Prepare and maintain monthly balance sheet reconciliations to ensure complete, accurate, and data-backed financial reporting.
- Oversee the end-to-end payroll process, including monthly review checks, ensuring accuracy and compliance prior to final approval.
- Manage day-to-day banking activity and oversee cashflow monitoring and payment runs, escalating risks or issues to the Financial Controller as required.
- Coordinate statutory calculations, filings, and payments in conjunction with the Group Tax team.
- Maintain documentation and evidence to support audit requirements and regulatory compliance.
- Ensure adherence to accounting standards, tax requirements, and statutory obligations.
- Production of the annual statutory accounts.
- Act as a key point of contact during audit fieldwork, preparing information and responding to requests in a timely and efficient manner, under the direction of the Financial Controller.
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Financial Planning, Reporting & Performance
- Coordinate the detailed preparation of budget and forecast files, ensuring all business owners provide input and take ownership.
- Produce accurate, timely, and commercially insightful management information that drives decision-making, including analysis of P&L, balance sheet, cashflow, margins, variances, and key trading trends.
- Proactively identify financial risks and opportunities, using analysis to support informed decision-making and improve profitability and efficiency.
- Support the Financial Controller in developing financial models and scenario analysis to aid decision-making and investment case development.
Commercial Business Partnering
- Act as the day-to-day finance contact for the operational teams, conduct commercial analysis to inform day-to-day decision-making and longer-term strategic initiatives.
- Translate financial data into clear, practical insight for non-financial stakeholders.
- Monitor performance against budgets and support operational teams in understanding variances and corrective actions.
- Escalate material risks, opportunities, or concerns to the Financial Controller with clear analysis and recommendations.
Operational Integration & Continuous Improvement
- Ensure financial processes are aligned with operational workflows/areas including purchasing, stock control, supply chain, and customer operations.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, and control within finance processes.
- Work closely with the Financial Controller and IT development team to support finance system enhancements and process automation.
- Help embed best practice and consistent ways of working across the finance function.
Skills, Experience & Qualifications
Essential
- Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with a minimum of 5 years’ experience.
- Proven experience in management accounting, financial planning and reporting.
- Demonstrated continued professional development with strong technical accounting expertise.
- Strong commercial acumen, analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to simplify complex information.
- Highly motivated, excellent attention to detail and accuracy, and highly organised with ability to time manage.
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability.
- Confident communicator able to influence and advise stakeholders.
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Desirable
- Experience in retail, e-commerce, distribution, or an operations-led environment.
- Strong working knowledge of the Sage 200 accounting system, using it effectively for day-to-day processing, reporting, and financial control.
- Experience of ERP or finance system implementation or optimisation.
- Demonstrated experience in the payroll function, with a strong understanding of relevant payroll legislation and compliance requirements.
Personal Attributes
- Commercially curious with strong business acumen.
- Proactive, solutions-focused, and confident in providing constructive challenge.
- Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Calm, credible, and professional with sound judgement.
- Committed to continuous improvement and high standards of service.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary: £50,000 per annum (Grade T-C).
- 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday.
- 33 days holiday
- Hybrid Working (minimum 2 days per week in the office)
- Up to 50% off Halfords garage bills and discounts across Halfords retail stores
- Discounts on everything from groceries to restaurants, shopping, and insurance
- Family & Friends Discounts
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Financial Planning Support
- 24/7 GP Access, 364 days a year
- Share Save Scheme with 20% discount on shares
- Health Cash Plan
- Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance
At Tredz, we believe cycling is for everyone, and so is a great place to work. We’re committed to building an inclusive team that reflects the diversity of our customers and communities. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, abilities, genders, and identities.
If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, just let us know, we’re here to support you every step of the way.
Pay: £50,000.00 per year
Benefits
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Swansea SA5 4DL
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