Sharp Consultancy is working in partnership with a highly successful, established manufacturing business based in Rotherham.

The business operates within a specialist area of manufacturing and has built a strong reputation through the quality of its products, investment in its operations and its ability to service customers across a broad market.

It's a business with substance, scale and ambition but importantly, it's also a business where finance is closely connected to the operation.

As Finance Manager, you'll report directly into the Finance Director and take ownership across management accounting, month-end, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, payroll, financial controls and analysis. You'll also provide day-to-day leadership to a small finance team, giving you the opportunity to develop your management capability alongside your technical finance skills.

The opportunity

You'll lead the month-end process, produce meaningful management information, analyse performance against budget and forecast, support working capital management and provide financial insight to help senior stakeholders make better decisions.

You'll also have exposure to areas including:

• Management accounts and month-end close
• P&L, balance sheet and cash flow reporting
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Variance analysis and financial commentary
• Cash flow and working capital
• VAT and statutory compliance
• Payroll
• Financial controls and reconciliations
• Process and systems improvement
• Supporting wider business improvement projects

You'll provide day-to-day leadership, coaching and workload management across the finance team, working closely with the Finance Director to improve processes, reporting and best practice across the function.

About you

The ideal candidate will be ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified, with a strong Management Accounting background and experience of taking ownership of month-end and management reporting.

You will be a commercially minded finance professional who wants to understand what is driving performance across the business and, importantly, is confident using financial information to challenge, question and support better decision-making.

Should this position be of interest please contact Jack Curtis at Sharp Consultancy.

Sharp Consultancy is a finance and accountancy recruitment specialist assisting accounting and finance divisions of businesses in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire area. With over 30 years' experience we pride ourselves on sourcing excellent finance professionals across all divisions of an accounts function.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction. To apply please send your CV to the e-mail address stated, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications, we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within seven days, please note that on this occasion your application has not been successful.