Finance Manager; FTC

Tredz is looking for a Finance Manager who thrives on turning numbers into insight, leading a small team, and helping drive smarter, more profitable decisions across the business. For this role you will be hands on with management accounts, cashflow, payroll oversight, and financial analysis while also acting as a trusted partner to operational teams.

As part of the Tredz Leaders Group, you’ll have the chance to influence key business decisions, shape finance processes, and champion continuous improvement, all within a collaborative, values-driven culture.

The Finance Manager plays a key operational role in delivering high quality management accounts, overseeing the payroll function, managing day-to-day banking and cash flow, and providing the business with vital financial analysis to help drive the profitability of the business.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, the Finance Manager is responsible for the preparation, coordination, and detailed execution of core finance processes, ensuring information is accurate, timely, and insight driven. The role supports robust financial control, provides commercial analysis to operational teams, and contributes to continuous improvement across finance processes and systems.

As a member of the Tredz Leaders Group, the Finance Manager provides trusted financial insight at an operational level, enabling informed decision-making while operating within the governance and strategic framework set by the Financial Controller.

• Manage, coach, and develop two finance team members, ensuring accurate delivery of day-to-day finance activities and management information.
• Allocate workloads, set clear expectations, and monitor performance to ensure agreed outputs and deadlines are met.
• Set clear objectives aligned to business priorities and support colleagues through coaching, capability building, and structured development plans.
• Support the Financial Controller in fostering a collaborative, values-led finance culture focused on accountability, continuous improvement, and professional development.
• Coordinate and deliver the month end and year end close processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and completeness with insightful performance analysis for review by the financial controller.
• Prepare and maintain monthly balance sheet reconciliations to ensure complete, accurate, and data-backed financial reporting.
• Oversee the end-to‑end payroll process, including monthly review checks, ensuring accuracy and compliance prior to final approval.
• Manage day‑to‑day banking activity and oversee cashflow monitoring and payment runs, escalating risks or issues to the Financial Controller as required.
• Coordinate statutory calculations, filings, and payments in conjunction with the Group Tax team.
• Maintain documentation and evidence to support audit requirements and regulatory compliance.
• Ensure adherence to accounting standards, tax requirements, and statutory obligations.
• Production of the annual statutory accounts.
• Act as a key point of contact during audit fieldwork, preparing information and responding to requests in a timely and efficient manner, under the direction of the Financial Controller.
• Coordinate the detailed preparation of budget and forecast files, ensuring all business owners provide input and take ownership.
• Produce accurate, timely, and commercially insightful management information that drives decision-making, including analysis of P&L, balance sheet, cashflow, margins, variances, and key trading trends.
• Proactively identify financial risks and opportunities, using analysis to support informed decision‑making and improve profitability and efficiency.
• Support the Financial Controller in developing financial models and scenario analysis to aid decision‑making and investment case development.

• Act as the day‑to‑day finance contact for the operational teams, conduct commercial analysis to inform day‑to‑day decision‑making and longer‑term strategic initiatives.
• Translate financial data into clear, practical insight for non‑financial stakeholders.
• Monitor performance against budgets and support operational teams in…