Finance Manager

This role will be responsible for the financial accounting of one of the the company's largest business units, Roadside Business services (c. 320m revenue)

This role will work within the Financial Control team, supporting the Roadside Financial Controller to ensure accurate management accounting and financial reporting across the Roadside Business Services Division ensuring accuracy and governance over the numbers. In addition the role will partner in to the Finance Institute & Partnerships commercial team within Business Services to challenge decision making and support the value strategy that is being undertaken.

Responsibilities

1. Managing the completion of month end for the Roadside Business services division, including posting journals and reviewing those posted by others, controlling accruals and prepayments and analysing actuals. Ensuring accuracy of the month end and reporting process and achieving all deadlines.
2. Preparing and reviewing month end reports with analysis and commentary on the results (financial, KPI, balance sheet and cashflow). Ensuring the validity, accuracy and integrity of the monthly accounts.
3. Completion of all balance sheet reconciliations and financial control requirements for the role, review of balance sheet reconciliations prepared by others.
4. Reviewing, understanding, robustly challenging and ensuring documentation of all Roadside Business Services financial processes including manual month end processes, as well as those performed by the direct report to this role.
5. Act as the Key Roadside Business services finance lead when partnering in to the central Controls team with the rollout of the Controls framework.
6. Ensuring correct accounting governance adhered to within the department (e.g. revenue recognition, provisions, changes in accounting guidance/standards etc). Handling technical accounting queries for the Roadside Business Services division.
7. Working with the wider finance teams to continually improve processes, automate and align reporting.
8. Cash flow reporting and work alongside the Treasury function to develop cash reporting processes.
9. Ensuring month end and reporting tasks are achieved within allowable deadlines.
10. Being the primary Roadside Business Services finance contact for external auditors both at year end and interim audits. Providing technical accounting responses to auditor challenge and dealing with audit requests.
11. Supporting the Group's ongoing controls project and implementation of the resulting new/improved processes.
12. Ad hoc projects and involvement to support the wider Finance team.

Health and safety requirements

Conduct yourself, and carry out work, to ensure compliance with the Company's Health, Safety and Environmental Policies.

Conduct Risk

All employees must strive to manage conduct risk in order that the the company can continue to deliver good outcomes for our customers.

For guidance on managing conduct risk, please refer to the the company's Conduct Risk Policy, found in the policy library on the internet.

The Individual

Capability, Knowledge and Experience:

• Advanced professional knowledge of accounting principles and practices
• Highly numerate and analytical with good communication skills, both verbal and written
• Highly IT literate and forward thinking when it comes to technology adoption
• A background of technical skills (e.g. Excel, VBA, SQL) and of working with ERP systems (e.g. SAP, BPC)
• Commercially minded
• Enthusiastic and ambitious, with lots of energy
• Proactive approach to problem solving and drives issues to conclusion
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to work well in a team environment
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to work independently
• Ability to manage and train other finance staff
• The successful candidate would build knowledge and experience in understanding the drivers of the company Products performance whilst grounding knowledge of core controllership in accounting

Education and Qualifications:

• Graduate level education
• Part qualified

Personal Characteristics:

• Adaptable and flexible, with the ability to prioritise, manage and deliver under tight or conflicting deadlines
• An innate curiosity & desire to understand and challenge
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Tough and resilient
• Initiative to find solutions and improve ways of working