Finance Manager

Salary: £54,000 – £60,000 per year

Our client is one of Europe’s leading independent companies that employs more than 8,000 employees worldwide and has an annual turnover of more than £800 million. They are looking to recruit a Finance Manager to join their Doncaster site, on a permanent basis.

Main Purpose of the Role

• To lead the Finance team responsible for supporting the Operations, Financial Planning, and Central Reporting areas, maintaining a high degree of cost control throughout the business unit. The role will:
• Lead the central business reporting for Finance summarising business unit performance and working with individual areas to understand variances
• Provide the central consolidation and review of individual business unit budgets, forecasts, and corporate plans including ownership of reporting requirements for these within the Group’s BPC system
• Work with the Inventory & Forecasting team to monitor and help drive inventory reduction and reduce obsolescence costs

The role requires:

• Strong analytical skills with an understanding of how to build effective reporting structures that enables budget holders to clearly understand their costs and drive business improvement
• A keen ability to influence the senior budget holders to drive the right performance and behaviours. Also a need to create a succinct summary of progress, issues, and projects underway for the MD Commercial and Financial Controller.
• Strong fiduciary responsibility as well as a high level of confidentiality.
• Qualified accountant with an understanding of good governance and necessary segregation of duties required in finance processes
• Strong process knowledge and understanding of SAP with an ability to quickly grasp new systems and associated reporting requirements
• Good understanding of digital tools available and how processes can be automated (including use of RPA’s if applicable)
• Strong influencing skills

Qualifications & Education:

• Degree qualified ideally in a finance or business discipline.
• Qualification in a professional accountancy qualification. (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Strong Mathematics capability and very strong excel capability
• Highly IT literate with an understanding of how digital solutions can improve processes

Experience & Proven Ability Required

• Positive, Pro-active and self-sufficient attitude
• Relating and networking
• Strong influencing skills
• Highly IT literate with experience in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
• Familiarity working with MRP systems, ideally SAP with a strong process mindset
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to negotiate with both internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail