Finance Manager

Finance Manager - Totnes - £33-40,000 

If working within a small, friendly, experienced and highly passionate team motivates your career search, you’d do well to read on. Trial Balance Consulting are delighted to have been engaged by a highly successful and fast-growing online retail and B2B business – a leader in the wildlife, ecology and conservation sector – which seeks to recruit an experienced Finance Manager. This is a full time, permanent position to be based at the company’s offices in Totnes. 

This is a pivotal role within the business where, working closely with the business directors, the successful candidate will play a key part in developing and maintaining the health of the company’s finance function. It’s a broad and rewarding role which will call for strong commercial aptitude and excellent management reporting. Key responsibilities to include: 

- Day-to-day management of the accounts team and transactional and statutory accounting processes, including purchase and sales ledgers

- Work closely with the management team to design and implement systems and process improvements

- Production of detailed management accounts with full commentary

- Supporting accounting processes of European subsidiary

- Liaise with external stakeholders and Chartered Accountants

- VAT preparation and submissions

- Authorising supplier payment runs

- Accruals and prepayments

- P&L Forecasting

- Cashflow forecasting

- Assisting Directors with company projects that require financial costings and analysis

Our client is completely open minded where qualification status is concerned and welcomes applicants either part/fully ACA/ACCA/CIMA or those who consider themselves to be qualified by experience/AAT. Previous experienced gained with EU trading businesses/multi-currency would probably be advantageous, but by no means a prerequisite. The successful candidate should have experience of working with modern accounting platforms (ideally Oracle NetSuite), and have good MS Excel competency. The role works with a motivated and professional team and the Finance Manager will be a prominent member of the business so excellent team-working and communications skills essential. 

To apply for this opportunity or talk through the role in more details, please contact Dan Saunders or Alex Callister quoting reference DS8469 ASAP.