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Finance & Payroll Manager

Contact 6-month FTC (potential view extend)

* Derby

* Hybrid (2-3 days in the office)

* 9am – 5pm hours

* £40,000 salary

* To start December 2024

Reporting to the FD, as Finance & Payroll Manager, you will have end-to-end responsibility for the monthly accounts and payroll processes, alongside oversight of AR/ AP, management reporting, and process improvement, to ensure sound financial management of the business. You will also have joint line management responsibilities of the Finance and Compliance Administrator.

Main Responsibilities:

* Maintain robust financial systems, processes and controls, ensuring their effective operation

* Drive continuous improvement of policies, procedures and controls to ensure sound financial management

* End-to-end responsibility for maintaining accurate financial accounts and for month-end processes

* Review and analyse financial statements and produce monthly management accounts to the FD

* Asist with the preparation of annual statutory accounts

* Oversee sales ledger/ accounts receivable, including ensuring tight credit control procedures

* Oversee purchase ledger/ accounts payable, including preparation of weekly payment runs

* End-to-end responsibility of payroll processes, processing monthly payroll & pension filings

* Preparation and submission of company VAT returns

* Proactively support cost control across the business and produce weekly reporting of key budget lines

* Support the creation of budgets and financial forecasting

* Joint line management of the Finance and Compliance Administrator

* Advise the Finance Director on any matters relating to financial performance

* Participate in and support internal and external audits

Qualifications and Experience:

* Part to fully qualified accountant, with excellent technical accounting knowledge

* Experience working with accounting software, such as Xero

* Experienced and technically proficient with Microsoft Excel

* Experience of running AP and AR

If you are available from December 2024 for 6 months FTC – please apply

Due to the nature of the business, the successful candidate will be to need to undertake full Safeguarding vetting and an enhanced DBS check.

If you meet the criteria above, send us your CV. We receive a large number of applications so if you do not hear back within 7 days consider your application unsuccessful this time. We will keep a copy of your details on file for future vacancies.

The Prescient Group will be managing your application by the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018. If your application is successful, we will contact you and manage your personal data in accordance with the guidelines of GDPR