Finance Manager

PE-Backed | High-Growth Manufacturing | Career-Defining Opportunity

Are you an experienced transactional finance professional who is ready to step beyond the day-to-day and take ownership of an entire finance function?

This could be the opportunity you've been waiting for.

We're working with an exciting Private Equity-backed manufacturing organisation that is entering a hugely ambitious period of growth. As part of that journey, they are looking for a hands-on Finance Manager to join the business, initially operating as a standalone finance lead and with the freedom to shape, develop and ultimately build the finance function in your own way.

This isn't a role where you'll simply inherit a well-established process and keep things ticking over.

You'll have the opportunity to build it.

Initially, you'll be responsible for the full breadth of the finance operation - getting stuck into the detail, understanding the business and creating the foundations for a scalable finance function.

You'll be involved in everything from:

• VAT returns and statutory compliance

• Sales Ledger and Purchase Ledger

• Management and financial accounting

• Bank reconciliations and month-end

• Payroll

• Cashflow and financial controls

• Stock, inventory and WIP accounting

• Improving processes, systems and reporting

• Supporting the wider business through its growth journey

You'll need to be someone who is comfortable doing the doing. This is not a role for someone looking to immediately delegate everything down.

But equally, this isn't where the journey ends.

As the business grows, there is a clear intention to grow the finance team and function around you, giving you the opportunity to move increasingly into a strategic leadership position.

The long-term vision is exciting.

The successful person will have the opportunity to grow from a hands-on Finance Manager into a senior finance leader, with a genuine aspiration of progressing towards Group Financial Controller as the organisation continues to scale.

You'll have a real voice in how the function develops, the systems and processes that are implemented, the team that is built and the way finance supports the wider Group.

Your career progression will be linked to the growth of the business.

You'll ideally be coming from a manufacturing finance background, with recent experience in a role where you've had genuine exposure to the operational side of finance.

You'll understand the importance of:

• WIP

• Stock control

• Inventory accounting

• Manufacturing costings

• Understanding how operational performance feeds into financial results

We're particularly interested in people who have come through a transactional finance route and have developed their accounting career from the ground up.

You might currently be a Finance Manager, Assistant Financial Controller, Senior Management Accountant or Financial Controller who is looking for significantly more ownership and autonomy.

Most importantly, you'll be:

Hands-on. Commercial. Ambitious. Curious.

Someone who wants to build something rather than simply maintain it.

🚀 PE-backed business with ambitious growth plans

🏗️ Manufacturing environment with genuine operational exposure

🛠️ Initially standalone - make the function your own

👥 Opportunity to build and lead a finance team

📈 Clear long-term pathway towards Group Financial Controller

💡 Real influence over systems, processes and the future shape of finance

The role is currently 4 days per week on-site, reflecting the hands-on nature of the position and the importance of being closely connected to the operation.

There may be scope for greater flexibility in the longer term for the right individual, as the finance function develops and the successful candidate establishes themselves within the business.

If you're ready for a role where you're not just looking after the numbers, but have the opportunity to build the finance function, develop a team and play a key part in an exciting PE-backed growth story, we'd love to hear from you.

This could be the role that takes your career to the next level.