Senior Finance Manager
Recruitment South East
East Sussex (Hybrid considered) £Competitive and negotiable + Benefits
Are you an experienced Finance Manager looking for a broad, commercially focused role where you can genuinely influence business performance?
We're recruiting for a Senior Finance Manager to join a successful, growing manufacturing business. Reporting directly to the Financial Controller, you'll play a pivotal role in financial reporting, forecasting, business partnering and supporting strategic decision-making across a multi-company, multi-currency environment.
This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious qualified accountant who enjoys working closely with senior stakeholders and thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
The Role
You'll take ownership of the finance function's month-end reporting while providing meaningful commercial insight to support business growth.
Key responsibilities include:
- Producing accurate monthly management accounts
- Leading quarterly forecasting and the annual budgeting process
- Managing multi-company, multi-currency consolidations
- Preparing and submitting VAT, Corporation Tax and payroll-related taxes
- Producing insightful board reports and financial presentations
- Analysing financial performance and explaining key variances
- Supporting year-end audit preparation
- Overseeing purchase ledger, sales ledger and cashbook functions
- Supporting payroll and pension administration
- Leading finance improvement projects alongside the Financial Controller
To be considered, you'll need:
- ACCA qualified
- 3-5 years' finance experience within a manufacturing environment
- Strong experience of multi-company and multi-currency consolidations
- A solid understanding of standard costing and manufacturing absorption accounting
- Sage Payroll and Sage HR experience
- Microsoft Dynamics AX (AX) experience
- Advanced Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, SUMIFs, INDEX/MATCH (or XLOOKUP equivalent), error handling and financial reporting
- Experience producing board-level financial reporting and commercial analysis
- Highly organised with excellent planning skills
- Analytical with strong problem-solving ability
- Able to work accurately under tight deadlines
- Comfortable communicating financial information to senior stakeholders
- Ideally someone who trained within practice before moving into industry
- Salary of £80,000 - £90,000 + Benefits - negotiable
- A varied and commercially focused senior finance position
- High visibility across the business
- Opportunity to influence strategy and improve financial performance
- A supportive leadership team and genuine long-term career prospects
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