Senior Finance Manager

Sewell Wallis are partnering with a fast growing, PE backed, property company based in Manchester who are looking to secure a Senior Technical Finance Manager to oversee their accounts.

This role is newly created due to expansion and will be offer a unique role which includes ownership of the statutory accounts and audits for the Group, alongside being heavily involved with company development of risk and control procedures, and influence improvements on accounting standards company wide.

This is a fantastic company, with extremely positive internal reviews. Plenty of progression opportunities are available due to the rapid scale of growth, making it a very exciting time to join!

What will you be doing?

• Offering technical accounting advice to management and the finance team, especially when involved with complex and high profile transactions.
• Preparation of the statutory accounts and assisting with audit.
• Monitoring, analysing and assessing the impact of new accounting standards, amendments and interpretations, helping to ensure that the company policies are up to date.
• Supporting the preparation of and reviewing the Group's annual and interim accounts, making suggestions for disclosure improvements, especially in relation to new accounting standards.
• Designing and implementing training around new accounting developments and topical concerns.
• Preparing and reviewing accounting papers supporting the accounting for key transactions, explaining complex issues clearly and concisely.
• Financial risk monitoring and reporting.
• Financial governance.

What skills are we looking for?

• ACA qualified (can consider ACCA).
• Audit background.
• Experience working with billion-turnover businesses (in Practice or Industry).
• Experience with external reporting with complex consolidation.
• Excellent knowledge of IFRS.
• Confident decision maker who can solve problems autonomously.
• Experience of FTSE reporting would be beneficial, but isn't essential.
• The ideal candidate will be a 2nd/3rd mover from Practice, as a combination of practice and industry would lend it's self well to this role.

What's on offer?

• Competitive salary of £65,000-£72,000.
• Hybrid working, offering 2 days WFH.
• Excellent location, 5 minute walk from a train station.
• Modern office building with excellent facilities and perks, incl onsite gym, well-being spaces, food & snacks, parking etc.
• Progression opportunities within a growing, billion turnover company.

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To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.