Finance Manager
About the Role
Sewell Wallis is recruiting for a Finance Manager to join a well-established service and distribution business in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. This is a permanent position offering a broad leadership role across transactional finance, reporting, and strategic business partnering in a fast-paced, multi-site environment.
What will you be doing?
The Finance Manager will be expected to:
- Lead and develop the transactional finance team (AP, AR, cash), ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and strong control
- Manage invoicing, reconciliations, supplier queries, and credit control processes
- Deliver weekly reporting to support trading performance and cash visibility
- Own VAT returns, control accounts, and audit preparation
- Partner with Exec and SMT to drive financial governance and strategic planning
- Support budgeting, month-end, and long-range planning cycles
- Drive improvements in systems, data flows, and analytics (ERP/reporting upgrades)
- Provide operational cover during team absences to ensure continuity
What skills are we looking for?
- Fully qualified accountant (ACCA/FCCA, ACA, CIMA)
- Proven leadership of transactional finance teams
- Strong Excel and systems capability
- Experience in wholesale, distribution, or similar fast-paced sectors
- Track record in weekly reporting and operational support
- Commercial mindset with strong problem-solving and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to simplify financial complexity for non-finance colleagues
- Enthusiastic, flexible, and detail-oriented team player
What's on offer?
- Annual bonus
- 25 days holiday + stats + birthday off (option to buy more)
- Private healthcare
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Contributory pension
- Salary sacrifice schemes
Apply for this role below or for more information, contact Jenny.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
