Role: Finance Manager Location: Colchester Salary: £45-55k We are looking for a Finance Manager / Management Account to join our team - Reporting into the CFO; - Full preparation of management and year-end accounts packs and supporting schedules/reconciliations. - Working with the commercial team to raise quotes/invoices and track work completion. - Cash management/forecasting including debt collection, payment run collation etc. - Management of supplier process including invoice authorisations and payments. - VAT return submissions and reconciliations. - Assistance with the year end budget process across the group including P&L, balance sheet, cashflows and KPIs. - Short-term (13 week) cashflow forecasting/funding management and day-to-day management of the bank and CID facility. - Leading on operational aspects of budgeting process, consolidation of sales and cost base, co-ordination of budget timetable and preparing budget P&L, balance sheets, cashflows etc. - Principle point of contact for external auditors and corporate tax advisors including year-end analysis, working paper preparation, statutory disclosures and analysis etc. - Allocation of project codes. - Cost management analysis. - Uploading of purchase invoices to Zahara, posting of credit card and bank transactions and raising of supplier payments. - Raising of sales invoices, credit control and debt reporting. - Full monthly suite of balance sheet reconciliations to audit standard. Person Specification: - Qualified ACA/ACCA, audit practice background highly advantageous. - Excel experience to include pivot tables, charts, IF functions, lookups etc. - Familiarity with Sage and Zahara advantageous. - Highly organised with superb attention to detail. - Flexible - able to juggle tasks and priorities. - Able to influence non-finance staff and build solid working relationships, especially with commercial and production teams. - Open, supportive, approachable management style, focussed on developing staff and driving efficiency and accuracy in financial processes. If you feel the above Finance Manager specification matches your professional background, click apply. ADZN1_UKTJ