Assistant Finance Manager

Our client is a dominant business in its field throughout the UK and Europe and seek to hire an Assistant Finance Manager to support the senior finance team with a growing business unit. The role is broad covering financial accounting, management accounting, budgeting and forecasting and manages a team of 2 direct reports.

Responsibilities:

• Own the daily end-to-end finance processes and month-end close processes across areas of responsibility, ensuring understanding of results, accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Support the preparation and review of monthly management accounts, ensuring accurate and timely submissions to Group for monthly reporting.
• Maintain an effective control environment and strong balance sheet control, including review of reconciliations and timely issue resolution.
• Ensure compliance with UK accounting standards, financial policies and statutory requirements.
• Support external audit processes.
• Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting to senior management.
• Responsibility for payroll reporting across the business unit.
• Ownership of the accounting and reporting for the business unit.
• Input to budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning activities, working with the regional finance team to ensure current and predicted performance is understood.

A salary of £50,000-£55,000 is on offer plus 15% bonus and benefits.