Finance Manager

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Accounts and Finance Manager

Ideally with knowledge and experience of Xero, you will have strong systems skills, be extremely reliable and most importantly be a conscientious team player. This role would ideally suit someone who is super organised and who thrives on working in a busy and fun working environment. This really is a great opportunity to work for a fantastic small business that provides fantastic products and take a hands-on approach in maintaining strong financial and administrative function, maintain stability and help build a scalable finance function.

The position is very broad and would suit a self-starter with excellent communication skills. You will manage the monthly accounts cycle and support with month-end tasks and ad-hoc projects. This role provides great exposure to a wide range of financial and administrative duties alongside building relationships with various internal and external stakeholders. As a small dynamic team with ambitious growth plans, we are looking for someone who can grow and develop alongside the business.

Core Duties include:

• Initial Projects: Instrumental in transitioning the accounts from the current outsource finance function in-house.
• Base Accounting: To include processing both sales/purchase invoices; maintaining the fixed assets register, accruals and prepayments; balance sheet reconciliations; bank reconciliations; purchase ledger control, sales ledger and credit control and expense processing. Liaising with customers and suppliers, responding to queries, and resolving issues regarding payments and outstanding debts.
• Monthly Management Information:Producing monthly management reporting with full P+L and Balance sheet responsibilities including KPI reporting and variance analysis.
• Cashflow and Working Capital: Setting up supplier payments in the banking system, posting cash receipts and payments, performing weekly bank reconciliations, ensuring working capital and cashflow is monitored by producing short term cash flow forecasts.
• Payroll: Collate and process all the information required for the preparation of payroll of staff.
• External regulatory financial information and returns:Ensuring Tax returns including VAT, PAYE and Corporation Tax are accurate and submitted in a timely manner; Ensuring the financial accounting records are maintained and accurately reporting externally.
• Admin/Office Support:Managing office costs, to be the point of contact for administration queries from both internal and external stakeholders to ensure the smooth running of the business.
• Operational Excellence:Working closely with the directors and operations to ensure that financial best practice is adopted across the business, ensuring high service levels to both internal and external stakeholders.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

A self-motivated, highly efficient, full, or part qualified Accounting Technician to be responsible for the financial accounting, payroll, and all associated duties. Reporting directly to the Company Directors.

The successful applicant will be a hands-on, proactive, confident, assertive individual who has experience across a wide range of financial activities; familiar with Xero accounting and payroll, SSP, SMP, VAT etc. Liaising with HMRC and external accountants, dealing with debtors and creditors and operating efficiently and effectively within prescribed timescales.

Essential criteria include a wide and varied financial experience, sound organisational skills, a good communicator who works well with others. Has the ability to work on own initiative, AAT full or part qualified near completion, with a good understanding of customer service and business acumen.

The ideal candidate will be:

• Highly organised, but able to work in a dynamic and fast-moving environment
• A strong communicator at every level of the business – (willing to manage petty cash, but also happy to challenge the Directors on significant financial decisions)
• Able to create and manage projects independently
• Someone who sees possibilities instead of problems and possesses a can-do attitude
• Able to bring energy and fun to the role of finance Manager!
• Ideally experienced in Xero accounting

Confidentiality, excellent organisational skills and accuracy are important qualifications for this position, as well as good customer relations and the ability to communicate clearly. The ideal candidate for this position is a skilled multi-tasker, is reliable and committed to consistently meeting deadlines.

KEY SUCCESS FACTORS: KNOWLEDGE

General business- Understands the awareness of elements of commercial law that may have an impact when working in accountancy, such as contracts, data protection or Anti Money Laundering.

Understanding the organisation - Understands their own role within the context of the organisation. Looking at transactional processes of accounting and their use within a finance function and what makes a business or organisation successful, through either buying or selling products or supplying services to a market.

Accounting systems & processes -Is aware of basic accounting concepts and double entry bookkeeping. As well as cost recording system within an organisation and bookkeeping controls, they can develop an understanding of the differences between Financial and Management Accounting.

Ethical standards - Understands corporate social responsibility (CSR), ethics and sustainability within organisations, they also understand the importance of the need to keep up to date with relevant policies, procedures, regulatory or system changes.

KEY SUCCESS FACTORS: SKILLS

Attention to detail - The ability to examine data to identify issues, to reconcile data to minimise the chance of errors and to plan and review work as well as recognise and rectify errors.

Communication - Can work by themselves and as part of a team, and effectively communicate with colleagues and stakeholders. They can demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and can relay financial information in a way that non-financial staff can understand.

Uses systems & Processes- Can identify the right systems to use and the processes needed to complete tasks. They can use office and accounting packages and maintain the security of the financial information they hold.

Personal effectiveness - Has the ability to organise self, prioritise workload/activity to meet deadlines. Actively identifies team workload problems and offers to support peers where appropriate and can understand issues beyond own remit.

KEY SUCCESS FACTORS: BEHAVIOURS

Teamwork -Will support colleagues and collaborates to achieve results and build working relationships within own team and other parts of the organisation as well as be aware of their impact on others.

Personal development -Will successfully implement changes that are required, as directed. They will display an ongoing commitment to learning and self-improvement, as well as seek feedback and act on it to improve their performance.

Professionalism - Looks to behave professionally by adhering to the organisational code of as well as demonstrate personal pride in the job through appropriate dress and positive and confident language.

Customer focus - Builds and maintains customer satisfaction with the products and services offered by their organisation in line with company policy, regulation, and practice. Delivers excellent service, identifying and meeting or exceeding customer expectations.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: From £27,500.00 per year

Benefits:

• Free parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person