Finance Manager

Job Description

I am excited to be partnering with a worldwide food services and facilities management company based in Manchester. As Finance Manager, you will also be providing expert financial advice to the operational management, facilitating the delivery of budgetand other initiatives that will drive financial performance within the contract. Business partnering with the service leads and working with our client on an established, profitable contract generating over £12m of profitable revenues per annum.Context of role:

• Providing a high level of financial support to the senior site managers and Commercial Finance Controller

• Provide clear reporting to stakeholders

• Delivery monthly financial results with detailed variance analysis

• Delivery of accurate forecasts

• Positive contribution to development and implementation of innovation

• Embrace and assist in the delivery of change

The role will also involve, but will not be limited to:

• Supporting the Operational Managers and commercial finance controller in all significant decision making.

• Complete the annual budgeting and quarterly forecast process with the senior site managers. Challenging and supporting this process as appropriate.

• Work with senior site management to deliver accurate monthly accounts to reflect all activity within the account, ensuring that items such as WIP, Lifecycle, variations, rechargeable works and major project activity are represented accurately.

• Ensure that the company is billing in line with the mechanism(s) set out within the contract and that all invoice back up documentation is accurately collated and presented to the client to ensure invoices are paid in accordance with contractual terms.

• Review and analyse site performance and provide commentary prior to declaration of financial results

• Seek to continually improve processes to eliminate administration burden and maximise opportunity to provide decision support.

• Actively work with the Commercial Finance Controller and the senior site management team to raise commercial and contract awareness across the site to all company employees to optimise financial performance within the framework of the contract.

• Delivering a strong management review and control process with the senior site management team.

• Maintain a robust forecasting process, identifying issues and opportunities, working with the Commercial Finance Controller to ensure that the senior site managers have action plans in place to address them.

• Ensure financial control environment is properly implemented within hard services, especially around purchase order raising and goods receipting, stock management and cost control.

• Work with the Commercial Finance Controller and operational teams to analyse performance trends, risks and opportunities and to determine how best the insight from this work can be turned into real performance improvements in the business. Once agreed,support and drive the implementation of this into the business e.g. control of subcontractor costs, identification of rechargeable costs/services and labour management.

• Providing financial advice to operational management, assisting in driving performance through commercially sound decision making and analysis.

• Develop a strong working relationship with the senior operations team - ensure they are all aware of current and future challenges.

• Deliver Weekly reporting to the management team

If you are interested in this role, please apply here or send your CV to