Finance Manager

Sewell Wallis has a fantastic opportunity to work for our client, a global retail and distribution business based in Rotherham, as they look to appoint a Finance Manager for a period of 12 months to cover maternity leave.

This role reports to the Director of Accounting and leads a motivated, agile, and proactive Corporate Accounting team from a technical accounting and statutory reporting perspective, as well as developing strategic objectives to deliver high quality accounting activities and support to the business.

What will you be doing? 

• Establish a team to service all retained corporate accounting activity ensuring all deliverables are met, time scales are adhered to, and high quality is maintained.
• Review and challenge financial results ensuring there is continual monitoring and improvement in the controls environment around all accounting activities.
• Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders across the Corporate functions (Taxation, Group Reporting, Corporate Controlling) to ensure service levels are established, targeted, and monitored.
• Work collaboratively with external auditors, ensuring accurate and timely data provision and proactive, sustainable resolution of any audit findings.
• Responsible for ensuring all Group Treasury policies are adhered to concerning cash management, foreign exchange deals, interest, and loan management for all UK entities (Corporate & Trading) and providing a focus on treasury policy activities within the Corporate Accounting team whilst maintaining the integrity of treasury reporting to the global Treasury team.
• Completes long term cash flow forecasts ensuring cashflow is managed effectively for the company's benefit.
• Responsible for the sign off of all Treasury tasks and procedures, ensuring all deadlines are met, no payments / deliverables are missed, and that work is carried out to the highest standard.
• Drives and manages change within the corporate team and FiCo function, providing clear direction in the achievement of stretch targets.

 What skills do we require? 

• Recognised professional accountancy qualification (CIMA, ACA, ACCA).
• Technical Accounting skills – circa 4 years post qualification experience preferably with practice in the role.
• Previous experience in managing a team (ideally of 6+).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• A good understanding and methodology of how to implement business process improvements.
• Proven ability to adhere to strict deadlines.
• Knowledge of SAP preferred.

 What’s on offer?

• 12 month fixed term contract to start as soon as possible.
• Hybrid working with 2 days in the office (flexible on days and start and finish times).
• Option to join the company pension scheme.

Send us your CV below, or contact kayley.h@sewellwallis.co.uk for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.