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Regional Finance Manager

  • Location: Manchester
  • Salary: Basic Salary up to £55k + bonus up to 15%
  • Job Type:Permanent
  • Sector: Accountancy & Finance
  • Contact: Surinder Hothi
  • Contact Email: s.hothi@select.co.uk
  • Contact Phone: 01865 724439
  • Job Ref: SF53825
My client is a hugely successful award winning company, delivering a brilliant service to their customers. They are looking for an experienced Finance Manager to join a highly skilled and high performing team based in the North West. This is a challenging role offering an excellent variety of scope and the chance to develop your career with one of the best in the industry.

Overview of Role

As a Regional Finance Manager, you will play an instrumental role in the profitable management of sites within your region. You will identify and drive operational efficiencies and deliver key business projects using your commercial acumen and expertise.

In this role you will be looking after various business sites in the North West and you can be flexibly based from any location and can also work from home when possible.

Key Accountabilities will include:

- Providing advice and insight of cost opportunities to the Regional Manager, as well as supporting in the implementation of strategic plans

- Taking the lead on specific projects, ensuring we targets are met

- Assisting with robust planning and forecasting measures, the application of commercial policy and the standardisation of financial processes/tools

- Producing and reviewing weekly and monthly financial and management Reports, whilst analysing and interpreting operational data to drive improvements in business profitability

- Developing and mentoring a remote team of administrators to ensure accuracy of reporting and standardisation of process across the Region


Ideal candidate:

- Ideally you will be a commercially astute and fully qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), with a right first time mentality and a solid grasp of management accounting principles/ practices.

- Proven experience of operating in a business partner or equivalent level role, coupled with the know-how and confidence to present clear and simple results in a cost focused setting.

- Strong planning and forecasting abilities, backed by a genuine desire to get to know the business and really understand the activities and underlying cost drivers behind it.

- Advanced Excel and first rate communication skills, plus a good knowledge of reporting tools, as well as evidence of involvement in the successful delivery of project based activities.

- assertive with excellent influencing skills

- keen to progress and ambitious

- A full driving licence, together with a willingness to undertake UK travel and stay away from home overnight when required.


Benefits

My client has a culture of recognition and reward with a meritocratic environment. Your package will include an excellent basic salary, company car or cash alternative, attractive bonus scheme that is based on individual and company targets. As well as this you have access to some other fantastic optional benefits such as Cycle2Work Scheme, Dining Cards, Holiday trading and discounts and savings on 1,000's of retailers.

You will have excellent opportunities for progression and career enhancement in this fantastic organisation.

If you would like to discuss the role further before applying, call Surinder at Select Appointments Oxford.