Finance Manager - Central Reporting

Elevation Recruitment Group are delighted to be working with a leading retail business in Mansfield as they look to recruit a Finance Manager for their central reporting finance function. This role will be working directly for the Financial Controller and will be responsible for looking after all figures for the entities that operate from Head Office, including management accounts, statutory accounts and budgeting/ forecasting. The successful applicant will own the management accounts for a UK-based division of the group.

The role has become available due to rapid growth over recent years, with a number of acquisitions into the group portfolio, alongside the requirement for a significant process improvement. You will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day financial responsibilities of the division, including helping with improvement of existing processes, and will potentially be involved with future acquisitions and integrations.

The company offers excellent benefits which include: - 

• Salary up to £60,000

• 25 Days holiday + Stats 

• Company Pension Scheme 

• On Site Gym 

• Employee rewards/ bonus scheme 

• Staff discounts 

It will be a varied role with duties to include: - 

• Production and review of monthly management accounts, including the profit and loss account, balance sheet and cash flow statement

• Production of budgets and forecasts

• Review and investigate variances between the actual results and budgeted/forecasted results

• Reconciliation of all relevant entities’ balance sheets

• Ownership/presentation of monthly finance reports to direct line manager and senior finance as required

• Build relationships with relevant commercial departments and act as a business partner for financial/numerical queries where required

• Support the group & statutory audits for relevant entities

• Preparation of statutory accounts for relevant entities

• Assisting in the tax computations for relevant entities 

• Project work as required

• Assisting with the integration of new subsidiaries

• Ad-hoc support to wider UK finance team as required

To be successful you will ideally have the following skills and experiences: - 

• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA

• Minimum 3 year’s experience working in a similar role within finance

• Excellent IT system skills, in particular MS Excel

• Good stakeholder engagement skills 

• Good analytical skills 

If you are interested in this rare and exciting opportunity, please send in your CV today!