Finance Manager

Your new company
A well-established consultancy specialising in the delivery of bespoke, high-end projects for clients. The business provides end-to-end support from initial planning through to the completion of projects and has built an exceptionally loyal client base who come back to them again and again. The office environment is exceptional - a light, creative space enabling the team to deliver for the clients at the highest level.

Your new role
You'll work closely with the design team, planning and scheduling finance work for the week ahead, scheduling customer invoices, updating the sales pipeline and keeping up-to-date with recorded hours against project budgets.

As the interim Head of Finance, you will work in tandem with ongoing projects, ensuring cash flow management is efficient, updating projected and extended cash flow forecasts after checking what projects should be included in these. You will prepare a schedule of upcoming large payments (VAT, PAYE, Corporation Tax, etc.) and understand how they affect cash flow. You will attend a weekly cash flow meeting to discuss all of the above and deliver a cash flow analysis on a weekly basis.
Monthly MI will include monthly P&L, actual, projected and extended, cash flow, look through the updated project pipeline and KPIs.
You'll be responsible for tax: corporation, quarterly VAT returns and PAYE, looking at the impact this has on cash flow for the business, as well as getting involved with supplier payments, bank reconciliations and reconciling supplier accounts, and you will manage one part-time bookkeeper.

What you'll need to succeed
You will ideally be a qualified accountant and have experience in a similar SME Finance Manager role, within a project-focussed environment with strong attention to detail and cash flow management skills.
Experience using Xero is beneficial.
The successful candidate must be able to commit to a period of no less than 3 months.

What you'll get in return
A great working environment, competitive rate of pay and a warm, receptive and supportive team around you.
What you need to do now
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