Finance Manager/Financial Accountant

Location Cambridgeshire
Discipline: Finance
Job type: Permanent
Contact name: Jeanette Robinson

Contact email: camb@cavillrobinson.co.uk
Job ref: 963564
Published: about 5 years ago
My client, based North of Cambridge, is keen to recruit a Finance Manager/Financial Accountant due to ongoing expansion. Reporting to the Head of Finance, key responsibilities of this Finance Manager/Financial Accountant role will include:

  • Developing and overseeing a team of 5 transactional staff covering all aspects of the day to day accounting functions
  • Accounting for overheads
  • Balance sheet reconciliations, including looking at methods to imrove and ensure their accuracy
  • Producing departmental P+L's and presenting and discussing them with Heads of Departments
  • Corporation tax and VAT Returns
  • Producing monthly statutory accounts acks so that the company is ready for the auditors at year end
  • Payroll costing
  • Involvement in corporate projects relating to investment

In order to be successful in obtaining an interview for this Finance Manager/Financial Accountant role, you must be able to demonstrate that you have strong people management skills coupled with excellent financial accounting skills. Ideally you will be a qualified accountant and have some knowledge of Sage 200. The role could be a stepping stone for someone wishing to advance from a Deputy Finance Manager role,  or for someone who wishes to continue to be a Finance Manager. It could also be a good first step for someone wishing to leave the accountancy profession. 

The company offers excellent benefits including 25 days' holiday plus Bank Holidays, an enhanced salary sacrifice pension scheme, a discretionary bonus of up to 10% of salary depending on company profitability and individual performance and free parking.