Job Description

FINANCE MANAGER

Are you a qualified accountant with a passion for numbers, accuracy, and financial strategy? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where your expertise helps shape business decisions? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our amazing team!

We are seeking an experienced Finance Manager to oversee our finance function, ensuring accurate accounting records, timely management reporting, and full compliance with statutory and fiscal requirements. Your contributions will support the company's continued growth, helping us make informed decisions and optimise financial performance.

Salary/Working Hours

Working hours are 8:30am to 5:00pm from Monday to Thursday with an early finish on Fridays (8:30am to 4:30pm).

We offer a competitive salary up to 65,000 depending on your experience and look forward to discussing this with you during the interview process.

What You'll Be Doing

Reporting to the CFO, you will be responsible for the maintenance of accurate and complete accounting records and all associated financial reports, through managing the day-to-day finance function; whilst ensuring that the company adheres to fiscal (including taxation) and statutory compliance at all times.

You will oversee and ensure that the finance department produces timely and accurate management accounts, associated MI and associated commercial reports to enable the financial performance of the business to be reliably reported to both Board and the senior management team.

You will also have overall responsibility for supervising, mentoring and training junior members of the team, assisting with the setting, monitoring and formal review of performance and agreed KPIs.

Main Duties

Oversee, review and sign off the monthly management information (MI) pack, including P&L, balance sheet and cashflow/working capital statements; unit sales, channel sales and associated margin analysis; together with customer and associated cohort analysis (dependent on the availability of data); complimentary digital analytics and KPIs; and all relevant comparatives to PY and budgets set.

Review and ensure the format of the monthly MI pack continues to meet business needs, streamlining or adding to if and where necessary.

Prepare the board slides for CFO review, to present the monthly management accounts with commentary.

Produce the company's monthly KPI scorecard, across both qualitative and quantitative measures, for review by the CFO, to be included alongside the management accounts board slides.

Fully understand performance figures, conducting deep dives where required to better explain performance.

Prepare and provide trend analysis (with support of the CFO if required), focusing on weekly unit, sales and margin analysis by sales channel (if applicable); and by product category, sub-category and by brand against PY and budgets set.

Prepare the initial draft annual budget for the business on a timely basis, for review by the CFO; ensuring that this financial model is built bottom up, benchmarking all costs to historic data and working closely with (and critically challenging) department heads/budget holders, so as to set key assumptions/operational drivers, that can be accurately monitored and measured on a monthly, if not weekly (trading) basis.

Prepare a revised forecast and overall annual outturn on a [quarterly] basis, using the same annual budget model format; and the same bottom up and cross departmental collaborative/challenging process, for review by the CFO.

Review in detail and amend where required, the rolling cashflow forecast (both 13 weeks and 6 monthly), to ensure that this is accurate; shared on a timely basis with the CFO; and used for discussion re both working capital management and trade loan facility requirements/covenants.

Finance Department Duties

Help ensure the accuracy and completeness of all accounting records; documenting, reviewing and streamlining accounting functions and operations where possible.

Introduce and maintain systems of controls where necessary, including for example, the introduction of formal and rigidly inflexible stock and overhead purchase order request and approval processes, together with invoice matching and authorised payment approvals.

Own both the purchase and sales ledgers, in order to minimise working capital requirements, including the management of supplier batch payment approvals and associated communications through the finance team and marketing team in the production and circulation of a fully reconciled monthly digital marketing spend analysis, split by marketing channel and including COS% and CPA analysis, all against a monthly budget and prior year cost comparative.

Assist with the supervision and training of the finance team, assisting with queries and providing appropriate training to minimise errors.

Ensure financial systems and integrations are fit for purpose.

Act as a point of escalation (if and when needed), for any customer or supplier invoice queries.

Rationalise and control the use of company credit cards/debit cards, whilst managing all expenses approvals and payments.

Statutory, Fiscal and Auditing Duties

Perform monthly payroll analysis and ensure payroll is properly signed off by the CFO/CEO, prior to payment.

Prepare PAYE settlement agreements if and when necessary.

Manage and lead any internal and all external audits, brief all staff involved, manage the schedule, preparation of audit file, draft financial accounts to TB and corporation tax pack - ensuring a successful unqualified audit opinion is received.

Oversee and review VAT return preparation and submissions by geographic area (if applicable).

Assist the CFO in reviewing and submitting to the company's insurance broker, all necessary financial and company information, required to place adequate and suitable insurance cover for the business.

Assist the CFO in monitoring and managing all contractual property related matters, including lease and license compliance, renewals and payments.

Other Duties

Be alert to the threat of cyber-crime and adhere to the company's cyber security protection guidelines.

Keep ICT skills updated to ensure effective use of technology.

Act as an ambassador for the company, supporting and promoting the company's vision, mission and values.

Work as an effective team member to support and achieve departmental goals, promoting the highest standards of behaviour and attitude to the role, working environment and company.

Commit to own professional development, enhancing and improving skills and knowledge for the benefit of all and ensure compliant with all necessary Institute CPD and membership requirements.

Experience & Skills We're Looking For

Required skills include:

Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA).

Good communication skills with all members of the company, inside and outside finance, with the instinct to know when tactfulness and sometimes pragmatism are called for.

Enjoys sharing knowledge and mentoring other members of the team.

Super organised with the ability to prioritise the workload to ensure all tasks are carried out effectively and deadlines are met.

A stickler for detail and obsessed with maintaining accurate records and documentation.

Always keen to improve, welcomes feedback and reflects on how things may be done better.

Complete confidentiality in all matters relating to the administration of the operations/finance team and processing of payroll.

IT skills, including competent use of MS Business Central or similar ERP system and Microsoft Office (including Microsoft Outlook and Excel).

Who Are We?

We've been a family-owned business since the 1980s, and we're privileged to have helped hundreds-of-thousands of families through life's early adventures during that time. We've gone from a single stall in Salford market to a 40M turnover with 40+ employees.

With over 1,700 products in stock and 40,000 Trustpilot reviews, we're the go-to for baby essentials for many families, stocking a huge selection of nursery products from market-leading brands like Puggle, Joie, Ickle Bubba and Mamas and Papas.

We understand how high-quality products, value for money and consistently excellent service can make a huge difference when shopping for a growing family, which is why we offer products and services that make our customer's lives safer, more enjoyable and stress-free.

Why Work Here?

We've experienced phenomenal growth, and our team has doubled in size. There are no indications of slowing down anytime soon, making this an exciting time to join us.

Where Are We?

Road:

We're just off Junction 22 of the Manchester Orbital route of the M60 and A62.

Train:

Moston is the closest train station to the office. From there, you can jump on the tram to Hollinwood, which is a short 5-minute walk from the office.

Tram:

Hollinwood tram station is just a 5-minute walk from the office.

Ready To Join A Workplace That's More Than A Job?

We have a creative and energetic workplace where no two days are the same. If a fast-paced culture where ideas are listened to, and every team member is encouraged to be the best they can be is what you're looking for, please click to apply or send a copy of your CV and covering letter to:

jobs@thenurserystore.com

As an equal opportunities' employer, we value diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community. Please note that due to the high volume of applications we receive we are unable to give feedback to candidates at initial application stage.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Up to 65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Employee discount Free parking On-site parking Work from home
Work Location: In person