Interim Finance Manager Fast Growth FMCG Business Cotswolds

Interim Finance Manager | Fast Growth FMCG Business | Cotswolds

Harmonic are proud to be working alongside an exciting FMCG business to hire an Interim Finance Manager to join their fast growing team. Only a few years into their journey they have been scaling up rapidly and are now looking to build out their finance function further, initially with interim, there is the potential for the successful candidate to go permanent should they impress.

Working as part of a values driven business, the Finance Manager will work alongside an experienced Finance Director to help bring their current finance function in-house from an out-sourced function. This change has come about due to fantastic commercial growth having seen the business scale 100% YoY over the past 3 years with turnover getting to c. £7 million turnover with plans for this to double in the next 48 months. This has come around through building out a high-quality product which use high quality and locally sourced ingredients to create a product which has taken the market by storm.

The Finance Manager role is a broad one and once the initial challenge of brining the function in-house is done this role will work alongside the Finance Director and Operations teams to ensure the accurate reporting of the budgets and forecasts as well as redesigning their accounting approach for stock to suit the fast-growing business needs.

The role is based at their production site alongside a much wider team. The culture of the business is non-corporate and fun. The team are often working on new products and exciting developments, and would prefer a candidate who can commute to their office 2-3 days per week.

The Role

• Bring the month-end and management accounting process in-house and own the production and completion of these tasks (some of the day-to-day might well remain outsourced if you wish)
• Align COGS with Sales in month.
• Assess current finance system suitability and suggest improvements in set up that could be made.
• Build relationships with Sales, marketing and Product teams establishing KPI analysis
• Improve stock and inventory reporting.
• Integrate forecasting into the demand planning and inventory ordering process.
• Ad-hoc projects to drive growth.

Required Experience:

• Advanced Excel Skills
• Either studying or fully qualified ACCA, ACA, AAT, ICAS, CIMA, or QBE.
• Experience with Stock Accounting would be preferable (this can also include working with Stock in an accounting practice)
• Mix of strong technical accounting experience as well as support or exposure to project-based accounting.
• Experience in FMCG, Manufacturing, Retail, or other sector with a cost accounting function.

Bonus Experience:

• Previous experience in a fast growth Start-up, Scale-up, or SME.
• Passion for high quality products and the linkup between accounting and manufacturing
• Experience of using Xero.

Day Rate: £250-£300 p/d (Outside IR35)

Contract Length: 3 month (potential to go permanent thereafter)

Location: Cotswolds - 2-3 days per week in their office.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out

At Harmonic, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We actively welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and assure you that every candidate will be thoughtfully considered for the roles we represent, without regard to race, religion, gender expression, disability, or sexual orientation.

At Harmonic, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We actively welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and assure you that every candidate will be thoughtfully considered for the roles we represent, without regard to race, religion, gender expression, disability, or sexual orientation.