Finance Manager
- Employer
- Michael Page Finance
- Location
- England, West Midlands, Solihull
- Salary
- £50000 - £60000 per annum
- Closing date
- Apr 23, 2021
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- Job Role
- Finance Manager
- Sector
- Rental & Leasing
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance and managing a team of 4, this individual will be responsible for the accurate and timely processing of c£80m of transactions, including accounts payable, month end processing and delivery of results. The successful candidate will be responsible for the analysis and insight into the resulting P&L and will be required to articulate key movements to the customer.
Client Details
Our client recently won a significant new contract to manage the full outsourcing of a Finance Function. This Finance Manager vacancy provides a challenging but rewarding opportunity for a confident and articulate individual to take control of this contract, gaining further experience spanning both the Financial Control and Commercial Finance areas.
Description
The successful individual will:
- Be responsible for the end-to-end finance management service provision to the customer - ranging from financial control to supplier and customer management
- Provide analysis, insight, and performance reporting to the customer, identifying key movements and operational drivers
- Take the lead for process improvement in all tasks
- Own performance plans with the customer as necessary, being responsible for managing to time, cost, and quality commitments
- Develop a detailed understanding of the bespoke system provided, lead on development, and challenge the software providers on improvement initiatives
- Be the lead financial contact for both internal and external stakeholders, including regular contact with the key finance customer contacts
- Work closely with the Senior Customer Account Manager and the wider team to drive improvements, efficiencies, and excellent customer experience.
- Manage the relationship with Customer's suppliers, giving them confidence in the management of the contract and challenging the pressures they present as appropriate
- Prioritise and manage queries from the customer's internal Business Units
- Ensure compliance with contract, and log requests to change scope of contract
- Train, coach, and line manage a team of 4 at varying stages of career development
- Ensure a strong control environment is maintained at all times.
Profile
The successful candidate will have:
- Finance qualification ACCA, CIMA, ACA with significant experience of operating in a time sensitive and challenging environment (or equivalent qualification through experience or other post graduate qualification)
- Ability to manage and communicate effectively with a number of demanding stakeholders while building and maintaining effective working relationships.
- Excellent excel skills.
- An analytical mind, capable of identifying key trends and performance drivers in large data sets
- Highly IT literate with an ability to adapt to, interpret and interrogate systems
- Ability to challenge processes, simplify and streamline to obtain the required objective
- Ability to use initiative to identify and tackle problems to ensure an effective solution is found
- Ability to manage, motivate and develop a team
- Excellent organisation skills with the ability to prioritise tasks and resource to deliver to a challenging timeline.
Job Offer
Excellent package and benefits
Chance to work for an exciting, fast paced business with impressive growth plans.
Company
Michael Page specialises in the permanent, temporary and interim recruitment of qualified accountants. In fact, our organisation was founded to provide selection and recruitment services for accounting professionals and has been a market leader in this field for more than 35 years.
We have earned the trust of clients in industry and commerce, the banking and financial services markets and the public and not-for-profit sector. We also have an exemplary track record of completing assignments for everyone from small, boutique practices to the Big Four firms.
Many of our consultants have a background in accounting and finance – that’s real, grass roots expertise at your disposal. Combine that with the global reach you get from a company that has over 155 offices in 36 countries and you’re looking at a pretty formidable package. We are confident no other consultancy is better qualified to help you make that crucial, next step in your career.
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