Group Finance Manager
  • England,North West,Lancashire,Preston
  • full-time
  • £55,000 - £60,000 per annum
Job Description:
Axon Moore are partnering with an exciting SME in Preston as they look to hire an ambitious Group Finance Manager into their team.

About the business:
* Highly profitable services business
* Rapidly growing – tripled in size over the past couple of years
* Have a pipeline of further M&A activity for the remainder of 2024 and the beginning of 2025
* Quickly becoming a market leader in their field

About the opportunity:
* No.2 to a talented finance leader – a client of ours who has a strong track record of developing and mentoring talent
* Succession planning to see this candidate progress internally in the business
* Dynamic and agile working environment
* Excellent working culture – 2nd to none in the area for having a high performing environment but with an excellent social culture

About the role:
* Oversee and prepare the monthly group management accounts, including consolidation
* Oversee and prepare Balance Sheet Control, completing reconciliations and driving action
* Technical Accounting to ensure compliance with accounting standards, particularly around acquisitions and revenue recognition
* Oversee and prepare the statutory accounts and liaising with auditors
* Manage group cash flow
* Compliance with HMRC for corporation tax, VAT, P11D’s and liaising with external advisors
* As part of small finance team continuous improvement of process & controls to match growing business
* Reconciliation of Revenue
* Ad hoc financial and non-financial projects with wider business
The role will gradually grow in size and responsibility and will broaden out into MI, commercial and other areas within the business

Ideal candidate profile:
* ACA or ACCA qualified with strong industry experience or a technical industry CIMA who has trained in a technical capacity in a corporate setting
* Evidence of being a leader and able to manage people and influence stakeholders
* Evidence of thriving in a high-change environment
* Proactive thinker and problem solver – somebody who is always in the pursuit of continuous improvement
Our local Lancashire Axon Moore team recruit all accounting and finance roles from CFO to transactional finance on both a temporary and permanent basis. For more information about this role or our wider team, please contact Kat Goulding on or on .
Job number 1514959
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Company Details:
Axon Resourcing Limited
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