Finance Manager

Location: Runcorn, Cheshire - 5 days per week.

Companies: DCB Legal

Reports to: Group Finance Director

Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent. 36.5hrs (Mon-Thur 9am-5pm; Fri 9am-4pm) - 30 mins lunch break.

Salary: £45,000 per annum

Role Overview

This role will help support the Finance Department and is a broad role that will mainly focus on the Legal company but will also gain exposure to the other company in the group. The main remit is to ensure the accurate and timely processing of day-to-day financial administration. The role ensures financial records are well maintained, and the organization complies with all statutory and regulatory requirements. The role will also take ownership of the management accounts and month-end process, oversee the transactional finance function, manage the external audit process, and ensure strong financial controls are maintained across the business.

Role and Tasks

• Management of the Legal finance team, ensuring all day to day, end to end processing is completed.
• Management of the DCBL finance team, ensuring all day to day, end to end processing is completed.
• Management and development of the finance teams, ensuring appropriate cover and deadlines are maintained.
• Ensuring appropriate financial controls and processes are maintained across the finance function.
• Ensuring compliance with Legal SRA accounting rules.
• Ownership and review of monthly management accounts, ensuring accurate and timely reporting. This will on occasion involve the preparation of the accounts itself.
• Management of the annual external audit process, acting as the main day-to-day contact for the auditors.
• Oversight and management of the transactional finance function, including purchase ledger, sales ledger, credit control, and banking. Including chasing invoices and making payments where required.
• Preparation and management of budgets, forecasts, and cash flow forecasts.
• Completion of revenue forecasting for the business along with client reporting.
• Working closely with the client team, being a true business partner to provide additional financial insight and analysis.
• Assistance with financial KPIs.
• Assisting with Client payback preparation and loading/approving payments into the bank.
• Assisting with bank reconciliations when required.
• Credit card reconciliations and invoice processing.
• Unremitted Review and ensuring we are paying clients in a timely manner.
• Covering holidays across the group - which means being hands on.