The Finance Manager has an active role in financial reporting, Treasury Management and decision-making. The role is highly technical and analytical and must be able to interpret and forecast financial and non-financial information to enable all financial and compliance reporting and treasury management. The role is also responsible for assisting with setting up funding requirements, ensuring compliance with funding agreements and for analysing various data from company performance to determine areas for improvement. The role supports management by providing high quality analysis, information, forecasting and reporting to enable informed decision making that will have a direct impact on the company financial performance (i.e., the roles’ primary goal is increasing profits of the company). Challenge the business to make improvements, e.g. streamlining expenditure and or cashflows, to maximise profit and improve financial performance. Support new business development through the preparation of financial models, budgets and forecasts and provide financial input into new funding negotiations. The role has direct responsibility of the full finance and accounting functions and supports non finance functions such as operations, marketing
and sales.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Accountable for preparing insightful reporting and analysis to support management decision making, and identify significant trends/issues, e.g. monitor performance against, budgets and forecast and covenants.
• Responsible for providing finance business partner support to divisional managers, operations, and executive management, influencing behaviours and performance through insights and understanding of key drivers; macro-assumptions and trends.
• Responsible for reporting and analysis of covenants – identifying and flagging issues to executive management, proposing corrective actions and monitoring outcomes.
• Accountable for leading and improving the budgeting, annual and monthly management reporting. Responsible for managing ongoing forecasting and preparation of data for finance review to ensure regulatory compliance and shareholder decision making.
• Accountable for leading and improving the reporting processes through system development; automation and analysis in order to provide real time data to enable decision making.
• Assist in modelling and scenario testing for new funding opportunities.
• Accountable for developing and improving accounting & control processes to ensure that results are reported appropriately and on a timely basis.
• Responsible for preparation of monthly business performance management and quarterly board reports, ensuring accurate and timely delivery of information. The incumbent should have a pro-active and collaborative approach, along with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to be able to liaise with and influence colleagues and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong analytical, numeracy and modelling skills are essential, along with a highly developed cash management / Treasury awareness.
• Must be able to drive system development and automation to improve accessibility to reporting models.
• Individual must be able to work under pressure and to deadlines.
• Leadership: must display strong leadership skills, and an ability to effectively work within and influence a multidisciplinary team.
• Strategy: think strategically, be open to new ideas, manage innovation, challenge assumptions.
• Financial management: Must have excellent financial, financial management and legal/commercial/finance understanding of funding agreements.