Finance Manager

Description

• Management and review of the VAT reconciliation, working with the tax team to ensure any changes are administered and queries dealt with in a timely manner.
• Collaboration with stakeholders and identifying financial anomalies
• Management of the insurance recharges, ensuring the relevant journals and/or invoices are prepared for both Lysander and recharged to the appropriate entities.
• Support Ad-hoc projects including system developments where necessary.
• Monitoring efficiency, reporting targets and KPI’s to drive continuous improvement.
• Deal with queries from project teams due to allowable/disallowable recharge to client and recovery charge rates ensuring corrections defined.
• Can prepare and present management reporting and explain financial themes and relevant insights under supervision/guidance, can communicate financial results to non-finance communities and articulate results, challenges and risks, can identify trends within the numbers and takes appropriate action or communicates to management.
• Maintain the insurance Masterfile and updating between company forecast and actuals. Liaise with procurement on any changes to the insurance cover to include any risks and concerns with invoices being received. Investigate & manage invoices, corrections and rebates.
• Management of the Fixed Asset Register, ensuring all amortisation and depreciation journals are posted and reconciled each month. Ensure a process is in place to pick up capital items expensed to ensure the correct tax treatment can be obtained.
• Review and sign off all balance sheet reconciliations for the 'Overhead and entity accounting team', ensuring any adjustments are rectified on a timely basis. Adding assistance where necessary to resolve issues.
• Manage Audit, PWC queries and RDEC information requests from KPMG
• Set and achieve high standards for themselves and for others, takes personal accountability for results, and monitors performance against pre-set objectives and performance standards.
• Management and review of all postings. Ensure all journal entries are accurate and input to timetable.
• Management of the first line reviews of the overhead business unit results, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of the financial results

Requirements

• Can prepare, present and explain complex management reporting/financial performance and explain complex financial themes with relevant insights to improve business performance independent of support
• Proven experience of process and systems optimisation.
• Self-motivated and a self-starter, with the ability to build positive and effective relationships at all levels. Gravitas to influence, challenge, and support in a matrix environment.
• Management, development and co-ordination of small teams essential.
• Working with Oracle Enterprise One, or similar ERP system desirable.
• Excellent communication skills, with confidence to present to senior stakeholders.
• Communicates openly and honestly with others, listens to differing views and seeks to create a common understanding and agreement to proposed actions.
• Displays strong commercial awareness, vigilant attention to the changing business environment and emerging opportunities and risks.
• Experience in a similar finance systems role.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of accounting records and systems including nominal ledger coding structures. Can review ledgers to ensure accuracy. Understands requirement for separation of duties and able to identify potential areas of risk. Understands the purpose of internal controls and ensures they are followed.
• Ability to think strategically, challenge current processes and introduce improvements.
• Identifies, anticipates, and navigates problems and obstacles to performance in an orderly and calm manner. Responds creatively to personal and team challenges.
• Can remain calm and focused under pressure, handling challenging situations with composure. Adapts quickly to change in project plans or unexpected issues. Reflects on setbacks to identify lessons learned and applies these insights to future tasks. Encourages resilience in others, providing support and fostering a positive work environment.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance