Finance Manager

Anderson Knight are seeking a Finance Manager to lead and elevate our clients Finance function, ensuring timely, accurate, and insightful financial reporting while driving a culture of innovation and operational excellence.

About the Role

Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will oversee the daily operations of the Finance department. You will play a pivotal role in driving process improvement, strengthening internal controls and providing actionable financial insights to support strategic decision-making across the business.

This is an opportunity to lead a high-performing team, streamline processes and shape the financial backbone of the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual management accounts and financial statements.
• Ensure full compliance with UK accounting standards, internal policies, and reporting deadlines.
• Manage a team of 3-5 accountants.
• Implementing and rolling out change/transformation initiatives to your team.
• Oversee balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, and journal entries.
• Manage year end audit preparation and act as the primary liaison with external auditors.

• Supervise, mentor, and develop a finance team, driving a culture of accountability, learning, and high performance.
• Manage workloads, set priorities, and drive consistent delivery of accurate financial information.
• Champion ongoing professional development and coaching initiatives.

• Maintain and continuously enhance internal financial controls and processes.
• Develop, implement, and document accounting policies and procedures to ensure efficiency and compliance.

• Assist in the preparation of annual budgets and periodic reforecasts.
• Monitor performance against budgets, ensuring effective cost control and resource allocation.

• Identify and implement process efficiencies across the accounting function.
• Drive automation, system enhancements and adoption of digital tools to optimise financial operations.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement within the finance team.

The main candidate will be:

• Fully qualified accountant (CA or ACCA).
• Proven experience in a supervisory or senior management accounting role.
• Excellent analytical, organisational and communication skills.
• Proficiency with accounting software (and advanced Excel skills)

• Experience in process improvement, system implementation, or digital transformation.

Why Join?

This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible impact on a developing organisation, enhance financial operations and lead a talented team. If you thrive in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment and are passionate about continuous improvement, we want to hear from you