Finance Manager

Finance Manager

Salary: £70,000 - £75,000

Location: Greater Manchester (hybrid working)

Duration: Permanent

Lead. Influence. Deliver.

Sellick Partnership has been engaged on an exclusive basis to recruit a permanent highly skilled and experienced, Finance Manager, for a leading reputable, instantly recognisable, profitable and long established financial services organisation based in Greater Manchester.

As a leading provider in the industry, they give the highest priority to being able to withstand and recover effectively from operational disruption. This is an exceptional opportunity to join a dynamic team and contribute to the continued success of the business.

This is a pivotal leadership role for a finance professional who combines strong technical expertise with a proactive, hands-on approach. You will lead and develop a high-performing team while ensuring the accurate maintenance of accounting ledgers, delivery of high-quality financial outputs, and provision of meaningful financial insight to key stakeholders across the business.

Working closely with the Senior Finance Manager and Head of Finance Operations, you'll play a key role in financial reporting, governance, risk management and change initiatives, while driving continuous improvement across processes, controls and ways of working.

If you're looking for a role where you can influence outcomes, develop people, and make a tangible impact within a market-leading organisation, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading, coaching and developing a finance team (8), fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Ensuring the integrity and accuracy of accounting ledgers and financial reporting outputs.
• Delivering insightful financial analysis to support business decision-making.
• Partnering with stakeholders across Finance and the wider business to provide technical expertise and commercial insight.
• Supporting governance, risk management and financial control frameworks.
• Driving process improvements and contributing to strategic change initiatives.
• Taking a hands-on approach to resolving issues, removing barriers and ensuring successful delivery of key objectives.

You will be provided with a supportive, collaborative, and open environment to think creatively. A key component of this role is building trusted and meaningful relationships with key stakeholders. You will provide credible insights and challenge, drawing on your business knowledge.

The ideal candidate for this position will a qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) and have significant relevant industry experience (financial services) with a demonstrable track record of undertaking similar roles. We will also consider a first time mover (Manager level is the minimum requirement) who has financial services, pension, life insurance and/or general insurance clients.

You will need strong experience of coaching and mentoring a team coupled with having a strong understanding of UK Life and Pensions accounting principles and the regulatory landscape.

The successful candidate will also have experience working with Fusion Accounting Ledger or equivalent finance systems, including multi-currency environments; proven ability to interpret and apply accounting standards, financial methodologies and regulatory requirements; strong analytical capability, with the ability to transform complex financial data into clear business insight coupled with experience operating within robust governance, risk management and financial control frameworks.

You will be a confident, proactive finance leader who thrives on developing people and delivering results. You combine technical excellence with strong commercial awareness and are comfortable balancing strategic priorities with operational delivery.

You need great influencing and presentation skills coupled with the ability to communicate confidently and effectively with all levels across the business.

You need to have strong commercial acumen and the ability to critically review work to identify potential issues, weaknesses, errors and omissions. Our client is looking for somebody with a track record of success and an excellent academic record who is looking to take there next career step. This opportunity will offer you excellent exposure to the business and fantastic career prospects.

If you consider yourself to be a committed, career driven professional who can demonstrate the above experience and who would welcome the stimulus of this finance post then we would be pleased to hear from you.

If you would like to apply for this role or would like to find out more, please apply online or contact Jonathan Moss at Sellick Partnership

We are only able to consider applications from those who are eligible to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship.

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