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Interim Finance Manager
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Role Overview
This role sits within a small finance team and is responsible for taking full ownership of all month-end accounting/reporting as well as system and process improvement activities. This is also suited to someone who has worked in a manufacturing environment with experience of inventory management and product costing.
Client Details
My client are a manufacturing business in the SME space and have ambitious growth plans over the next 3-5 years.
Description
The key responsibilities within this role:
- Deliver accurate and timely monthly management accounts and take ownership of the month-end close process
- Complete balance sheet reconciliations and maintain strong financial controls
- Prepare VAT returns
- Produce weekly cash flow forecasts
- Produce insightful sales, margin, and profitability reporting
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and business planning
- Develop KPI reporting for operational and senior management teams
- Identify opportunities to improve profitability and working capital
- Develop meaningful inventory reporting
- Improve stock controls and reporting accuracy
- Support implementation of an enhanced costing methodology
- Improve finance processes.
- Support automation and reporting improvements.
- Enhance management information.
- Help build a finance function capable of supporting the next stage of business growth
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The Successful Candidate
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified
- Experienced within manufacturing, distribution, or another product-based business
- Commercially curious and naturally analytical.
- Comfortable working with colleagues outside Finance.
- Confident improving processes rather than simply maintaining them
- Experience of inventory accounting, product costing, or ERP systems would be a significant advantage
Job Offer
This is a day rate position (inside IR35) and is paying a very competitive rate. Applicants should be based locally as this role requires 5 days a week onsite in Gloucester.
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