Finance Manager

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Role

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Finance Manager with strong technical accounting knowledge and Excel skills to join our dynamic Finance team.

This is a senior role with responsibility for ensuring that all internal and external financial reporting requirements are met on time and in accordance with the relevant accounting and regulatory standards. Reporting deliverables include monthly management accounts, quarterly regulatory returns and annual statutory accounts.

As Finance Manager you will play a key role in the coordination, production and review of the various deliverables as well as providing advice on complex accounting matters. You will be responsible for analysing and investigating variances to budget/forecast, preparing written commentaries on the movements in a period and for responding to queries from various stakeholders with the Group.

Other key accountabilities for the Finance Manager:

· Ownership of the financial control framework

· Balance sheet management, ensuring that all material balances are sufficiently controlled and reconciled on a monthly basis

· Cash flow management, including optimisation of Endsleigh’s working capital cycle, and the production of accurate short- and long-term cash flow forecasts

· Ensuring compliance with the FCA’s Financial Regulatory requirements and all other applicable legislation

· Working collaboratively to support the Financial Controller and the other team members in the achievement of team and departmental objectives, providing cover to ensure key deliverables are met during periods of colleague/leader absence

· VAT reporting

· Key point of contact for external auditors

Person

The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with excellent stakeholder management skills. They will be highly motivated and inquisitive with a strong commercial awareness and keen eye for detail. They should see the big picture, pre-empt issues before they arise and demonstrate ownership for decision making.

The successful Finance Manager will also have:

· Strong use of initiative to problem solve and drive process improvement

· Excellent communication skills

· Good organisational skills, with experience in prioritising workload to ensure tight deadlines are achieved

· The ability to instigate and implement change

· Intermediate or advanced Excel skills

Knowledge:

· Strong technical knowledge of accounting standards, particularly FRS 102, and other applicable financial legislation/regulation

· Internal control framework and risk awareness

· Sage 50 or other general ledger packages

· Knowledge of FCA regulatory reporting

· Knowledge of company systems and processes

Qualifications/Experience:

· Professionally qualified accountant or qualified by experience

Reward

This is a great opportunity to be part of a transforming business and you will be rewarded by a highly social team culture and competitive salary. We will offer you a fantastic benefits package which includes a defined contribution pension scheme where Endsleigh will contribute 4% of your pensionable salary increasing to 8% at 5 years’ service and rising again to 12% in year 10.

You will start with 22 days holiday plus bank holidays, rising to 25 days after 2 years’ service. We also offer all colleagues the ability to buy holidays if they wish to, as well as giving you your Birthday off.

In addition to this we also offer:

• Health cash plan
• Private Medical Insurance
• Hybrid Working
• Life Insurance
• Income Protection Plan
• Free fruit and healthy snacks
• Colleague discounts through Perkbox
• Totum student discount card via the NUS
• The opportunity to buy additional holiday
• Funding for team social events via the Endsleigh Fun(d)