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Finance Manager: Pudsey, Leeds, LS28 West Yorkshire
Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 + 10% annual bonus
Flexible working: Finish at 1pm on Fridays
Permanent Full-time Office-based role
Hawk 3 Talent Solutions are recruiting for an experienced Finance Manager who thrives in a hands-on, fast-paced environment and loves improving processes, strengthening controls, and supporting a business as it scales. This role gives you full ownership of the finance function day-to-day, leading a team of four with two direct reports, and acting as a trusted partner to senior leadership.
The Opportunity
You'll oversee all financial operations, ensuring accurate reporting, strong governance, and meaningful insight that helps the business grow while minimizing risk. From month-end to budgeting, cash forecasting to audit, you'll be the person the board relies on for clarity, challenge, and commercial guidance.
Key Responsibilities
- Month-end leadership: Drive a smooth close and deliver accurate, consolidated management accounts and KPI reporting.
- Board reporting: Produce packs leadership genuinely use to make decisions.
- Balance sheet control: Maintain robust reconciliations and resolve outstanding items promptly.
- Cost management: Partner with departmental managers to review overheads and support smart spending decisions.
- Budgeting and forecasting: Assist with annual budgets and quarterly forecasts across P and L, balance sheet, cash flow, and working capital.
- Team leadership: Motivate, coach, and develop your team to create a high-performing, collaborative culture.
- Cash forecasting and debtor finance: Monitor debtors and working capital, providing accurate weekly data to senior leadership.
- Stock and manufacturing analysis: Lead annual stock counts, variance reporting, and analysis of manufacturing data including costed BOMs and new product development costs.
- Audit and compliance: Act as the main contact for auditors; ensure VAT, Deferred VAT/Duty, and PVA are recorded correctly.
- Payroll support: Work with the Financial Accountant on in-house payroll and headcount reporting.
- Fixed assets: Maintain the Fixed Asset Register and depreciation policies.
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What Good Looks Like
- Timely, accurate reporting that supports decision-making.
- A finance team culture built on collaboration, clarity, and continuous improvement.
- Streamlined processes that remove non-value-added activity.
- Proactive financial support to directors and operational teams.
Skills And Experience
- CIMA/ACCA qualified or qualified by experience
- Experience operating at SMT level
- Strong team management background
- Advanced Excel/data manipulation skills
- Manufacturing sector experience desirable but not essential
- ERP implementation exposure (desirable)
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Benefits
- £45,000 - £55,000 salary
- 10% annual bonus
- 26 days holiday + bank holidays
- Free onsite parking or parking nearby
- Pension: company matches up to 5%
- Staff welfare facilities and mental health support
- Company fun days/events
- Flexible working: finish at 1pm every Friday
- Friendly, supportive team of four
Location
Pudsey: Easily commutable from Leeds, Bradford, and surrounding areas.
If you would like to apply for the role of Finance Manager, please apply here or call Deb on
Closing date: 16.8.2026. Please note this could change subject to suitable applications.
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