Job Description

Finance Manager Salary: 65,000 - 75,000 depending on experience Location: St Albans
Our client is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Finance Manager to join their dynamic small finance team. This role offers an exciting opportunity for a qualified management accountant with experience in preparing full management accounts, budgeting, P&L, forecasting, cost and project accounting. The successful candidate will have the overall responsibility for credit control and the purchase ledger as well as the sales ledger, providing support to the Finance Director.

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic finance team
• Responsibility for credit control and purchase ledger
• Supportive leadership

What you'll do:
As a Finance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in managing the financial health of the organisation. You will be responsible for supervising AP and AR activities, managing direct reports, providing guidance, training and appraisals. Your role will also involve balance sheet account reconciliations and analysis, profit and loss account analysis, variance reporting and administering customer rebates. You will be tasked with creating and posting journal entries to SAP, handling company taxation matters including PAYE, VAT (including Intrastat), PSA, and TAS. Your role will also involve group intercompany reconciliations. You will be responsible for daily cash flow monitoring, forecasting and planning. Coordinating month-end and year-end close within set deadlines will also fall under your purview.

• Supervise Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) - day-to-day activities, set up and monitor KPI's, review of ledgers.
• Manage direct reports, provide guidance, training and appraisals.
• Balance Sheet - account reconciliations and analysis.
• Profit and Loss - account analysis, variance reporting.
• Administer customer rebates.
• Journal entries - creation and posting to SAP.
• Company Taxation - PAYE, VAT (including Intrastat), PSA, and TAS.
• Group intercompany reconciliations.
• Cash flow - daily monitoring, forecasting and planning.
• Coordinate month and year-end close within set deadlines.

What you bring:
The ideal candidate for this Finance Manager position brings a wealth of experience in HMRC,VAT, PAYE payments along with proficiency in bank reconciliations and pre-payments & accruals. Your excellent IT skills coupled with exceptional Excel ability & knowledge will be crucial in this role. Experience or knowledge of SAP would be an added advantage. Your strong management accounts experience and leadership skills will enable you to excel in this role. Your sound commercial/business awareness, excellent communication and presentation skills will be key in managing relationships within the organisation. High numeracy and sound technical skills are also essential for this role.

• Experience of HMRC,VAT, PAYE payments
• Bank reconciliations
• Pre-payments and accruals
• Excellent IT skills - with exceptional Excel ability and knowledge
• SAP experience/knowledge would be an advantage
• Strong management accounts experience
• Management/leadership skills
• Sound commercial/business awareness
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• High numeracy and sound technical skills

What sets this company apart:
My client is a globally renowed brand and has presence in about 100 countries and offers its customers a portfolio that is perfectly tailored to consumer needs.
This Finance Manager role has a salary of 65,000 - 75,000 (depending on experience), plus bonus, 25 days holidays plus bank holiday, private healthcare, pension and other company specific benefits. This role is based in St Albans and has hybrid working of up to 2 days per week.
What's next:
Ready to take the next step in your career? Apply now or send your CV to kay.edle@robertwalters.com
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Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates
About the job
Contract Type: Permanent
Specialism: Accountancy & Finance
Focus: Finance Manager
Industry: Accountancy
Salary: 65,000 - 75,000 per annum
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Experience Level: Senior Management
Location: St. Albans FULL_TIME
Job Reference: 8TF5Q8-AFE1017F
Date posted: 8 August 2025
Consultant: Kay Edle northern-home-counties accountancy-finance/finance-manager 2025-08-08 2025-10-07 accountancy St. Albans Hertfordshire GB GBP 65000 75000 75000 YEAR Robert Walters https://www.robertwalters.co.uk https://www.robertwalters.co.uk/content/dam/robert-walters/global/images/logos/web-logos/square-logo.png true