Job description
Are you a commercially focused Management Accountant who is looking to join a business with great ethics and fantastic career progression? Are you someone who is looking to take on some line management experience or build on the experience that you already have?If so, Sewell Wallis are recruiting for an acquisitive manufacturing company with a great story and history to tell, who can offer you these things and more. This medium sized company have still managed to retain that friendly, family feel, whilst successfully growing the business and building an impressive and dynamic finance team.
They now have an exciting opportunity for a qualified accountant to join them as their new Finance Manager, to lead the management accounts team and to confidently business partner with the operations and commercial departments across the company. You will make up part of a high performing finance team and will report into a highly enthusiastic and driven Director of Finance.
As the Finance Manager your role will include the following duties:-
-Lead for the quarterly forecasting and budgeting process, ensuring these are accurate, achievable, and realistic.
-Manage a team of 2 individuals, consisting of a part qualified and qualified accountant, to ensure the management accounts are producing in a timely and accurate manner
-Business partner with the wider business, including the Operations and Commercial teams, to ensure accurate information is available to support key decision making
-Undertake detailed financial analysis to support commercial and strategic planning
-Develop models for tender pricing and acquisition opportunities
-Building robust and strong relationships between finance and non-finance departments
-Hold regular one to ones with your team and focus any development opportunities and effectively delegate where appropriate
-Analysis of revenue streams and business costs, identifying any opportunities to improve profitability
-Analysis and challenge of payback of business investments, including R&D projects, ensuring project costs are accurate and viable for the business
-Consistently looking at process and system improvement work which can be carried out
This is the perfect opportunity for an ambitious accountant that is looking to improve their business partnering skills and learn from a highly successful Finance Director.
You must be a qualified accountant with very strong excel skills to be considered for this opportunity. Whilst line management experience isn't essential, it is a highly desirable requirement from our client.
Please get in touch with Lucy Regan or Emma Dugdale to hear more about this great role
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.
