Finance Manager

We're partnering with a well-established, privately owned business on a newly shaped Finance Manager hire a genuine opportunity to make your mark and build something that lasts.

This isn't a maintain-the-status-quo role. The business is at an exciting stage of growth and needs someone who can bring structure, financial discipline, and commercial clarity to a function that's ready to evolve.

What you'll be doing:
Designing and owning a formal budgeting process from the ground up working with department heads to build bottom-up budgets, challenge assumptions, and consolidate into a company-wide financial plan
Leading project financial control overseeing costing, margin tracking, and forecasting across the business, working closely with project managers to drive accountability
Providing meaningful commercial insight to senior leadership translating numbers into decisions on investment, cost management, and project viability
Improving financial systems and reporting including better use of Sage and the introduction of clearer dashboards and standardised processes
Supporting key finance processes including month-end, VAT, and audit preparation
Leading and developing a small team

What we're looking for:
Strong background in financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting
Proven experience building or improving budgeting processes ideally in an SME or scaling business
Commercially minded with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders
Hands-on experience with Sage 200
Solid understanding of revenue recognition, VAT, and audit requirements
CIMA, ACCA or equivalent qualification (or part-qualified with strong experience)
Pragmatic, collaborative, and comfortable balancing the detail with the bigger picture

If you've thrived in an environment where things needed building rather than just maintaining and you want real ownership of a finance function this could be exactly the right next step.