Finance Manager

Summary

Join our Finance Team as a Finance Manager for a 14-month FTC in Newcastle to ensure the accuracy, integrity, and compliance of financial operations. Reporting to the Accounting Manager, you will lead the month-end close process, manage accruals and prepayments, oversee intercompany transactions, and ensure accurate and timely journal entries and reconciliations. Responsibilities include managing month-end processes, intercompany processes, preparing journal entries and reconciliations, and reviewing junior team member work. You will also analyze financial information, work with FP&A and external auditors, review tax returns, and identify process improvement opportunities. This is a fully remote role for UK-based candidates with full working rights. The ideal candidate is curious, empathetic, motivated by meaningful work, and comfortable with ambiguity.

Requirements

• Fully qualified AAT, ACCA, ACA, and CIMA or similar
• Interested in a 14 month FTC
• Strong controls bias and experience
• Strong analytical skills and ability to perform complex analysis and reconciliations
• Experience in assisting in the preparation of statutory accounts
• Experience of managing external audit to tight deadlines
• Proven excel skills to a good standard
• Process improvement and system development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with tactful telephone manner
• Self-driven in seeking resolutions to a high standard

Responsibilities

• Manage month end processes, including accruals, prepayments, revenue and software capex processes
• Manage intercompany processes, funding movements and charges
• Preparation of journal entries, supporting schedules, general ledger reconciliations and analysis
• Oversight and review of the client liability reconciliations
• Ensure month end reconciliations are complete and accurate within Blackline
• Review and approve junior team member reconciliations and ensure appropriately supported
• Analyse financial information detailing assets, liabilities, and income statement accounts
• Review payroll and ensure correctly coded and understand the key movements
• Work with FP&A in understanding the financial performance and ensure aligned with knowledge of key business movements and respond to FP&A queries
• Assist in preparation of financial statements for local filing
• Work with external/internal auditors in managing company requests
• Review the indirect tax returns (VAT/GST etc) and reconciliation of the returns to the ledger and to Netsuite tax reports
• Review and prepare the analysis of ledger activity for month end reporting and tax analysis
• Work with compliance on the preparation of financial data to support capital adequacy for regulatory entities
• Prepare the regulatory reports in conjunction with the Payment operations team and compliance
• Manage the tactical banking access requirements and access
• Preparation of interim financial statements as required for company structuring/ approval of dividends/cash repatriation etc
• Assist with technical analysis of company activity to assist the tax department with transfer pricing
• Identify process improvement opportunities, develop potential solutions and implement

Benefits

• 12 weeks Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary carer
• Unlimited access to Linkedin learning, 10% of your time devoted to growing you and your career, and further support to help you grow
• Access to mental health support
• Fully flexible work arrangements