FINANCE MANAGER
£65,000 - £70,000 plus bonus
Based in Hertfordshire
This role offers an excellent opportunity to contribute and add value in a challenging and constantly evolving area, providing financial support and oversight for one of their key programmes. The successful candidate will form an important part of the leadership team, expressing their opinion and appropriately challenging the team to help drive optimal business/financial decisions.
* Opportunity to lead a dynamic and complex sector
* Significant potential for further new business
* Part of the leadership team driving optimal business/financial decisions
What you'll do:
As a Finance Manager, you will be leading a dynamic and complex sector of our client's business. You will be responsible for managing multiple stakeholders and conflicting demands and deadlines. Your role will involve preparing multi-year business plans and annual budgets, reporting KPIs timely, managing contracts financially, ensuring integrity of financial records for each contract, participating actively in leadership teams, providing robust financial insights and assistance to the business team, and driving improvements in working practices.
* Management and support to the development of the wider team.
* Preparation of the multi-year business plan (ISBP) and the annual budget.
* Reporting KPI’s on a timely basis, achievement against these targets, including preparation of financial year outlooks.
* Financial management of contracts including: revenue & margin trading, bi-annual Estimate at Completion preparation, cash management, currency management, customer reporting/interfacing.
* Responsible for the integrity of financial records of each Contract – including interacting with external auditors as required.
* Participate as an active member of the leadership team, promoting financial awareness and supporting the programmes in achieving Budget / Plan performance.
* Provide financial support to the business team, becoming a valued member of the team and providing robust financial insight and assistance.
* Actively seeking and driving improvements in working practices.
What you bring:
The ideal candidate for this Finance Manager position is someone who is qualified CIMA/ACA/ACCA with post qualification experience or equivalent. You should have experience managing multiple stakeholders and conflicting demands and deadlines. Prior experience in financial management of long terms contracts (IFRS 15) and hedging (IFRS 9) is highly desirable. Experience of leading and developing team members is required. Comfortable working closely & communicating effectively with finance and non-finance colleagues, you are a pro-active leader of change, willing to bring new ideas and experiences to the team.
* Qualified CIMA/ACA/ACCA with post qualification experience or equivalent.
* Experience managing multiple stakeholders and conflicting demands and deadlines is essential.
* Prior experience in financial management of long terms contracts (IFRS 15) and hedging (IFRS 9) highly desirable.
* Experience of leading and developing team members is required.
* Experience of production contracts/UPC management is desirable, though not required.
* Prior understanding of managing foreign currency transactions would be beneficial.
* Comfortable working closely & communicating effectively with finance and non-finance colleagues.
* Pro-active leader of change, willing to bring new ideas and experiences to the team and influence ways of working across finance and non-finance areas.
What sets this company apart:
Our client is a leading defence organisation based in Hertfordshire. The salary is circa £65,000 and they offer a range of benefits including a company bonus, hybrid working, generous pension contributions, paid overtime, flexi leave, enhanced parental leave, and excellent site facilities. They also provide excellent career progression, training and career development opportunities.
What's next:
If you are a Fully Qualified Accountant with IFRS 15 and IFRS 9 experience and ready to take your career to the next level? Apply now!
Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates
