Finance Manager

Location: Telford, Shropshire - hybrid working

Salary: Up to £65,000 per annum DOE

Job Type: Permanent

A long-established, award-winning managed IT and cyber security provider supporting small and medium-sized businesses across the Midlands and the wider UK. Its services span fully managed and co-managed IT, cyber security, Microsoft Cloud, AI, unified communications and digital transformation. It holds Cyber Essentials Plus, carries several industry accreditations and is entering a new phase of growth.

This is a full-service, hands-on finance role with end-to-end responsibility for the company's finance function. Reporting to the Managing Director, you'll own everything from day-to-day accounting and transaction processing, through the monthly management accounts, to the financial analysis that helps the leadership team make decisions as the business grows. You'll close month-end within five business days and act as the main point of contact for the external accountants and advisers.

• Running day-to-day processing across the sales, purchase and general ledgers, bank postings, journals, expenses and company card transactions
• Completing daily bank reconciliations, managing cash and keeping cashflow forecasts up to date
• Running credit control and debt collection, and resolving customer and supplier queries
• Closing month-end within five business days and producing monthly management accounts (P&L, balance sheet and cashflow)
• Posting accruals, prepayments, deferred and accrued income, depreciation and recurring journals, and keeping balance sheet reconciliations clean
• Reconciling recurring revenue, contracts and billing between the PSA and the finance system, and keeping integrations accurate end to end
• Building reports, KPIs and dashboards, including MRR, margin and profitability by service and customer, with variance analysis against budget
• Partnering the MD and leadership team on pricing, investment, budgeting and forecasting
• Preparing quarterly VAT returns, supporting year-end with external advisers, and supporting payroll and pensions processes
• Strengthening financial controls and improving finance processes and systems as the business scales

• A recognised accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or AAT) - qualified, part-qualified or qualified by experience
• Experience running a monthly management accounts close to tight deadlines
• Hands-on experience of a cloud accounting or ERP platform such as Xero, Sage or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Experience working with integrated line-of-business systems and reconciling data between platforms
• Advanced Excel skills, including formulae and financial modelling
• Comfortable owning the full finance function end to end, with a self-starting, commercially minded approach
• Clear communicator who can explain the numbers to non-finance colleagues
• MSP, IT services or recurring-revenue business experience
• Experience with a PSA tool such as Halo PSA, Connect Wise or Autotask

• Salary up to £65,000 depending on experience
• Monday to Friday hours
• End-to-end ownership of the finance function, reporting directly to the MD