Finance Manager
16 hours ago
Brentwood
Finance Manager | ESSENTIAL SKILLS: • Strong experience leading financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes across fast-moving commercial environments, • Proven ability to build and optimise end-to-end financial controls, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery of financial insights, • Expertise in managing cash flow, cost structures, margin performance, and balance sheet integrity to support strategic decision-making, • Demonstrated capability to analyse financial data at a detailed, product-level basis and translate findings into clear, actionable business recommendations, • Skilled in partnering with cross-functional teams including Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Customer Service to drive commercial alignment, • Strong experience working with international suppliers or partners, including Chinese manufacturers, with an understanding of cost modelling, currency impacts, and financial risk, • Highly analytical, structured, and detail-focused with a commitment to continuous improvement and financial discipline, • Resilient, proactive, and outcome-driven with the ability to prioritise strategically in a fast-paced, high-growth environment Finance Manager | DESIRED SKILLS: • Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field, • Professional certifications such as ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent training in financial management, • Experience supporting financial transformation, automation, or system integration initiatives within consumer products, retail, or industrial sectors, • Familiarity with financial systems, ERP platforms, or reporting automation tools, • Interest in financial analytics, data-driven forecasting, and modern finance technologies, • Previous experience acting as a key advisor, deputy, or strategic partner within a finance leadership function Finance Manager | OVERVIEW: Our client, an established and rapidly evolving organisation, is seeking a Finance Manager to strengthen its financial leadership capability and ensure the business operates with clarity, commercial discipline, and long-term stability. This full-time, permanent role holds core responsibility for budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, cash flow management, and operational finance oversight. Working across fast-moving product lines and international supply chains, the Finance Manager will maintain accurate forecasts, robust financial controls, and commercially grounded insights that support growth and profitability. Partnering closely with Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing, and Customer Service teams, the Finance Manager will align financial planning with operational realities, highlight emerging risks, and drive opportunities to improve performance. A key priority will be enhancing product-level financial visibility, optimising working capital, and reducing financial inefficiencies such as slow-moving stock. The Finance Manager will act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, bringing strategic clarity, executive-level communication, and confident financial stewardship. This is an opportunity for an experienced professional to deliver measurable business impact, shape a modern finance function, and help build the financial backbone of a dynamic, high-growth organisation.