Finance Manager - FTC

My client, one of Liverpool's leading household brands, are currently recruiting for a Finance Manager (15m FTC) to join their stunning Liverpool head office.

Our client is seeking a dedicated and experienced Finance Manager for a maternity cover contract of 12-15 months. This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead a dynamic finance team, focusing on the production and analysis of insightful management information. The successful candidate will be instrumental in ensuring transparency of all costs, understanding key drivers, and maximising profitability. This role provides a unique chance to build effective relationships across the business, identify cost-effective opportunities, and contribute significantly to the financial planning of the business.

What you'll do:

As a Finance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading your team towards achieving high efficiencies and delivering insightful management information. You will be at the forefront of ensuring cost transparency, understanding key drivers, and identifying opportunities for cost-effectiveness. Your leadership will extend to supporting your team in their personal development, improving both behavioural and technical skills. This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to the financial planning of the business.

• Develop, coach, and mentor direct reports to deliver high team efficiencies.
• Lead in the production and analysis of insightful management information.
• Ensure transparency of all costs and understand key drivers within the business.
• Encourage challenge from within the team and foster effective relationship building across the business.
• Identify areas of opportunity to be more cost-effective and maximise profitability.
• Support the team in producing relevant analysis and investigation of cost variances.
• Review processes and policy adoption to ensure accurate accounting records are maintained.
• Contribute significantly to the financial planning of the business including short term rolling views, biannual budgets, and multi-year business plan assumptions.

What you bring:

The ideal candidate for this Finance Manager position brings a wealth of experience along with qualification in CIMA/ACA/ACCA. Your strong analytical skills coupled with your commercial awareness will enable you to excel in this role. Your ability to lead a team confidently while working calmly under pressure will be crucial. Your assertiveness combined with your strong influencing and negotiation skills will set you apart.

• Qualified CIMA/ACA/ACCA with up-to-date knowledge of IFRS accounting standards.
• Minimum 3 years relevant experience in a similar role.
• Strong IT literacy with good knowledge of Excel.
• Excellent analytical skills with good commercial awareness.
• Ability to work calmly under pressure and meet tight timescales.
• Proven ability to lead a team effectively.
• Confident and assertive with strong influencing and negotiation skills.

What sets this company apart:

Our client is a disruptor in the retail industry, constantly evolving and championing equality for all. They thrive off their inclusive culture, encouraging colleagues to bring their true selves to work, contributing to collective creativity, open-mindedness, and growth. They offer competitive salaries along with core benefits such as staff discount, wellbeing support, life assurance, retail rewards platform offering discounts for other retailers, pension scheme and access to a wide range of career development.

What's next:

Ready to take the next step in your finance career? Apply now!

Apply today by clicking on the link. Please apply as soon as possible if interested due to high volume of suitable applications.

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