Finance Senior Manager

Finance Senior Manager

Cardiff, UK

PMUK is looking for a Senior Manager to lead the PMUK Finance function and provide senior‑level financial leadership and expert oversight across PMUK. The successful candidate will support the Finance Director in strategic decision‑making and financial governance, and ensure robust financial controls and high‑quality reporting to deliver PMUK strategies.

• Act as a senior member of the Finance leadership team, reporting to the Finance Director and the Board of Directors where required.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of PMUK’s financial strategy.
• Provide financial insight and challenge to senior stakeholders, supporting informed commercial and strategic decisions.
• Lead, mentor, and develop Finance Team Leaders and senior finance members, ensuring appropriate resourcing, skills, and capability within the Finance function.
• Foster a high‑performance culture, ensuring clear objectives, accountability, and professional development.
• Oversee the preparation and delivery of accurate and timely management accounts and financial reports.
• Ensure robust financial controls and compliance with accounting standards (UK GAAP/IFRS as applicable) and regulatory requirements.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long‑term financial planning processes.
• Manage financial risk, including cash flow, working capital, and cost control.
• Review and improve financial policies, procedures, systems, and internal controls.
• Act as a senior finance business partner to Directors and Heads of Department, providing a high‑quality financial management reporting service with a focus on identifying trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Provide high‑quality financial analysis, commentary, and recommendations.
• Support major investment appraisals, business cases, and change initiatives. Lead the development and assessment of company‑wide cost improvement and cost‑down strategies, working with managers to carry out financial and activity modelling.
• Build strong working relationships across the organisation to promote Finance as a trusted and capable strategic partner.
• Approve budgets, forecasts, and financial submissions prior to Director sign‑off.
• Lead the overall annual business planning and budget setting process for departments and support the Finance team in delivering required tasks for their designated areas.
• Lead financial discussions at senior management and executive level meetings.
• Ensure compliance is duly met in line with statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure the accurate and timely completion of month‑end closing, monthly P&L, BS, and cash flow forecasts.
• Review closing results and forecasts, ensuring accuracy.
• Chair and present at monthly Finance meetings.
• Foreign exchange booking and management.
• Approve all expenses, requisitions, assets, disposals (scrap/stock error), new supplier set‑up forms, and new customer set‑up forms.
• Ensure effective management of external audit processes.
• Annual SOX reporting.
• Consideration of pension accounting, including movements on deferred tax.
• Continuous consideration for cost reduction and performance improvement.
• Tax planning and strategic consideration of duty arrangements.
• Any other duties as may be required by the Finance Director.

• CIMA qualified or equivalent.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Sufficient post‑qualification experience in a senior leadership capacity, ideally within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong reporting and governance background.
• Working knowledge of SOX.
• Audit preparation and management.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to present complex financial information clearly.
• Experience in driving process improvements and change.
• Demonstrable commercial awareness and/or business‑facing finance experience.
• Strong and proven leadership and management skills.
• Ability to deliver to strict deadlines.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong report writing skills.
• Ability to effectively manage stakeholders.
• Excellent MS Office Excel skills (Pivot, Macros, VLOOKUP, etc.).
• Ability to work under pressure and plan/prioritise workload.
• Takes ownership and is flexible, engaged,…