Finance Manager

About

We are delighted to be working on a retained basis with Ecosurety (http://www.ecosurety.com) to appoint a Finance Manager, a newly created role in their structure.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, and with direct line management of two team members, the purpose of this role is to lead the transactional finance team plus strengthening existing relationships with business teams. The role will also be responsible for completing the weekly cashflow which is a critical part of finance and the business.

Ecosurety is an industry leading company of 90+ people, based in the heart of Bristol’s vibrant city centre, with a mission to accelerate change towards an environmentally sustainable world. Its clients are many of the UK big brands and retailers, often facing particularly big challenges over their use of packaging. Ecosurety is a Certified B Corp, committed to balancing profit with its social and environmental impact. If this sounds like your sort of place, we’d love to hear from you.

The Role

Ecosurety are looking for an experienced and proactive Finance Manager to lead and optimise our financial operations, across Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), payroll, and reporting. This role will be critical in ensuring the effective management of financial transactions, adherence to financial controls, and continuous improvement of processes.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee and lead the day-to-day transactions of finance (AR/AP), implementing process improvement, ensuring strong financial controls in place and acting as reviewer and approver on these processes.
• Accountable for the weekly cashflow reporting; identifying risks and escalating issues as needed.
• Responsible for preparing quarterly VAT returns, ensuring returns and payments are accurate and processed in a timely manner.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for audits, on all finance transactional questions.
• Own and oversee payroll operations, ensuring accuracy and compliance through a 3rd party provider, as well as managing pension arrangements and completion of P11Ds and PSA calculations.
• Support the scoping, selection, and integration of a new finance system, with successful implementation targeted by the end of 2025.

About You

Either qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or qualified by experience, you will bring proven experience in a finance management role, with a strong focus on AR, AP and payroll processes. With a solid understanding of financial controls, compliance, and risk management, we would like to see evidence of strong commercial awareness and the ability to see wider impact of decisions across the business.

Reward & Remuneration

• £50,000pa
• 28 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (3 days to be taken over Christmas shutdown)
• 5 x salary life insurance, 7% employer pension contribution, up to 15% bonus, employee health cash plan, paid sick leave, critical illness cover, 2 weeks workcation, options to buy additional holiday or unpaid leave, 3 days volunteer leave, happy to talk flexible working, remote working, wellbeing support, great office location, £250 home working set up payment.
• Hybrid working. Ecosurety operates a '50% together, 50% anywhere’ working concept

Exploratory interviews scheduled for w/c 17th February 2025.

All direct and third party applications will be sent to Coyne & Associates for consideration.