Assistant Finance Manager
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Occupation Type
Financial managers and directors
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£75,100
(£38.51 per hour)
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Description
Job Title Assistant Finance Manager
Responsible to Head of Finance
Location Derby
Overall Purpose of the Role
Reporting to the Head of Finance, the Assistant Finance Manager will play a highly visible and influential role within the business, acting as a trusted finance partner to the Operations Director and senior operational leaders.
This is a true business partnering position – providing robust financial insight, commercial challenge and strategic support to drive operational performance, margin improvement and sustainable growth. The role will proactively translate financial data into meaningful intelligence, supporting decision-making across cost control, efficiency initiatives and revenue-enhancing activities.
In addition to operational partnering, the Assistant Finance Manager will contribute to the ongoing development of the Finance function – enhancing the quality and timeliness of management information, improving controls, standardizing processes and driving continuous improvement to ensure finance delivers maximum value to the wider business.
This is an opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional to step into a role with genuine influence, visibility and impact.
Key Accountabilities
Responsible to Head of Finance
Location Derby
Overall Purpose of the Role
Reporting to the Head of Finance, the Assistant Finance Manager will play a highly visible and influential role within the business, acting as a trusted finance partner to the Operations Director and senior operational leaders.
This is a true business partnering position – providing robust financial insight, commercial challenge and strategic support to drive operational performance, margin improvement and sustainable growth. The role will proactively translate financial data into meaningful intelligence, supporting decision-making across cost control, efficiency initiatives and revenue-enhancing activities.
In addition to operational partnering, the Assistant Finance Manager will contribute to the ongoing development of the Finance function – enhancing the quality and timeliness of management information, improving controls, standardizing processes and driving continuous improvement to ensure finance delivers maximum value to the wider business.
This is an opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional to step into a role with genuine influence, visibility and impact.
Key Accountabilities
PURPOSE: Commercial Support
- Business Partner key stakeholders (financial and non-financial) ensuring strong commercial and operational decision making, managing financial risks and opportunities
- Delivering proactive financial analysis with summarised findings to support business unit decision making
- Understand and manage the financial risks and opportunities arising from volumetric and other contract mechanisms – and ongoing business performance
- Understand, highlight and manage the financial risks and opportunities arising from balance sheet maintenance
- Working effectively as part of a team
- Building relationships with key stakeholders
- Provide analysis of key operational and financial reports — including month-end performance, manufacturing KPIs, cost of goods, budgets, cash flow, and variance analysis — for review at monthly business meetings.
- Commercial analysis, including make-versus-buy modelling, cost–benefit evaluations, pricing scenarios, supplier benchmarking, margin analysis, and capital investment appraisals Responsible for month end processes
Candidate Requirements: Key Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Qualified accountant – ACA/ACCA/CIMA
- Industry experience gained within a manufacturing entity
- Experience of management accounting inclusive of accounting adjustments, producing
- Analytical and with a high level of attention to detail
- Communication and presentation – all stakeholders are kept up to date on relevant issues which are communicated clearly
- Experience of training and mentoring junior team members
- Ability to adapt to a changing environment
- Experience of business partnering non-finance professionals to support the delivery of sound financial information
- Excellent communication skills - ability to communicate oral and written information concisely and logically - to both finance and non-finance people
- Pro-active and energetic approach
- Ability to analyse and evaluate information concisely
- Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to influence internal and external parties
- Self-motivated with an ability to effectively plan and organise own work
- Ability to take on a broad spectrum of work under pressure and to deliver in agreed timescales
- Communication – ability to work well with peers
- Can Do – Finds new / quicker ways of meeting goals, responds quickly under to achieve targets