Are you an experienced and qualified Finance Manager who would be open to joining the UK’s leading Health & Safety Experts in a 12-month maternity cover role?
Reporting directly to our Director of Finance & Accounting and managing a team of one direct report, we are looking for an experienced Finance & Tax Manager to join us on a fixed term contract basis, building on all the great work the team are already doing. As our Finance & Tax Manager, you will partner with senior leaders, own key financial processes, drive compliance and governance, and act as a subject matter expert in technical accounting and controls, including Tax, with a focus on continuous improvement and treasury support.
The role is a hybrid position, and we are open to the Finance & Tax Manager joining us on a 4 or 5 day working week. If 5 days a week, you will need to work from our Head Office in Hull 3 days a week, and if 4 days a week, the requirement will be 2 days in the office. Due to the nature of the role, there will be occasions when you may be required to attend the office more on an ad-hoc basis.
Key responsibilities include:
- Delivering accurate and timely Working Capital Outputs including technical consolidation, forecast and budget processes, developing efficiencies within processes and leading on continuous improvement
- Producing cyclical Balance Sheet and Cashflow consolidations for Board Packs (& other related) providing value-add insight to the Main Board to support decision making
- Maintaining accurately the Group Balance Sheet and Reconciliations (including our Safety Services business), identifying areas of risk/ opportunity, and engaging with relevant stakeholders to mitigate risks and deliver opportunities that drive Group profitability
- Producing individual entity statutory accounts and group consolidated working capital accounts
- Owning the overall audit process and engagement with the Group’s Auditors and other external experts (Property, Legal etc.) where necessary, understanding and translating any issues to the Senior Finance team
- Acting as the subject matter expert within the Group on external financial reporting and internal financial controls
- Developing the Groups financial control and governance framework ensuring risks are clearly articulated and actioned/ mitigated
- Completing accurate and timely tax returns and delivery of tax projects that will include engaging with external stakeholders
- Managing the treasury operation including currency purchases and currency policy
- Managing our company pension scheme accounting and relationship with the pension scheme Auditors, Advisors, and Trustees
- Being a leader in the Finance team, acting as a manager and mentor to junior colleagues
On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:
- A competitive starting salary plus bonus
- 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
- 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
- An excellent pension and Life Assurance scheme
- A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
- Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
- Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years
The ideal Finance Manager will be/have:
- Qualified; ACA, CIMA or ACCA and experience in a similar Senior Finance role – we are open to both industry and practice experience
- Experienced managing Balance Sheet, Cashflow, Audit, Statutory Reporting and Treasury related activities (including Forecasting & Budget exposure)
- Strong tax experience - particularly big company (£200m+ t/o)
- A proven record of senior stakeholder management and strong knowledge of business strategy, systems, process, people and how they connect
- System savvy with good working understanding of SAP (other ERP exposure would be a plus) with the ability to deal with large data volumes.
- Strong knowledge of controls & compliance work and ability to document and challenge compliance.
- People management experience