Role: Senior Finance Manager
Location: Brighton (hybrid)
Salary: £50-60k

Reporting directly to the CEO, the Finance Manager will lead the small finance team through a period of change, ensuring that the team deliver on the exacting day to day requirements of a regulated firm within the insurance industry, constantly looking for opportunities for process improvement and system integration whilst simultaneously managing the expectations of our PE backers. It is essential that the successful candidate is hands on, methodical, with great attention to detail and structure and has a proven track record of building relationships with business partners.

The Finance Manager will be responsible for the following;

* Prepare consolidated monthly management accounts to agreed deadlines and give high quality financial insights to support the decision-making process and creation of monthly Board slides for CEO
* Act as a Finance Business Partner to all Senior Leadership Team members.
* Reconciling and posting sales against the company's insurance system and processing cost of sales journals.
* Thoroughly checking the bookkeeping done by the finance team member.
* Responsible for preparing accruals, prepayments and other month end journals and processing if required.
* Checking supplier and broker payment run and banking set-ups before authorizing them through the banking platform.
* Send payroll changes to payroll provider and check payroll reports.
* Ensuring the balance sheet is fully reconciled at month end, including multi currency insurer accounts and intercompany balances.
* Prepare insurer bordereau and broker statements on monthly basis and reconciling them against accounting system.
* Review, document, strengthen and streamline end to end Finance processes and controls.
* Fully leverage the EASY CRM platform and look for opportunities for cost savings.
* Finance team management - training, coaching and performance monitoring.

Person Specification;

* Qualified / part qualified accountant with at least 2 years of experience in the Insurance sector.
* Must have worked within multi-currency and multi jurisdiction business models.
* Must be able to work from the Brighton office two days a week.
* Must have experience of working with XERO and a good awareness of SAGE.
* Must be able to work in a logical and structured manner, with a proven track record of documenting and improving processes.
* Strong excel skills and has previous experience of using Vlookup, Sumifs, Pivot tables and other advanced modelling skills for planning and forecasting.
* Strong communication skills and ability to communicate effectively across different departments and levels.
* Self starter, energetic and looking for a great opportunity to grow with a small company.
* 'Hands on' experience within finance and ability to meet all deadlines and self manage prioritisation with excellent attention to detail.
* Have very strong data analytical skills and able to 'connect the dots' between data sets to drive out information for senior management decision making.
* Experience of using Wise, Revolut and other challenger bank applications desirable.
* Good awareness of operating within an FCA regulated entity.
* Working with a Private Equity funded business desirable but not essential.

If you feel the above finance manager specification matches your professional background, click apply.