Job Description

Who Are You?

You're a qualified financial guru with insight into how we can best handle all the money-related areas of our business. You love working with people as well as numbers, and you're the sort of person who is always happy to get stuck in. Problems are there to be solved, not observed. You appreciate the skills of the rest of our team and are able to integrate easily to add an extra dimension.

Who Are We?

We're The Digital Maze, and we help our customers to navigate the often confusing subject that is eCommerce. We are a full service digital marketing agency based in Derby, specialising in Business to Business (B2B), Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Pay Per Click (PPC), and Web Development - mixing a data-led approach with creativity to get amazing results for our clients.
We've helped hundreds of clients connect with their audience and turn leads into customers. 30+ experienced team members, combining 100+ years of digital and business expertise. We offer our clients long-term solutions to transform their online growth with lasting effects. Our results may be astonishing but we are careful and considerate in our approach. We dream big but make sure we can deliver on everything we commit to. We all have a specific digital marketing role, but we work as one team. We celebrate the fantastic results our teams achieve.

Role Overview

The Finance Manager will report to the Managing Director, but will work closely with both internal and external stakeholders. This role specialises in all aspects of finance related to The Digital Maze's relationships with clients, managers, directors, and our Shareholder Board. This is a wide role with a remit of identifying opportunities (e.g., areas of potential cost improvement), working to recover funds, and improve processes to prevent future value leakage.

What Would You Be Responsible For?

Build relationships both internally and externally with peers at clients and other relevant businesses. Liaise with key partners on behalf of the company, coordinating and consolidating information from our teams to form a total picture. Review and set cost frameworks for charges, ensuring cost recovery. Publish and critically assess P&L and Balance Sheet, in particular the accuracy of project income recognition. Monitor and forecast cash balances to support business operations and ensure effective management of working capital. Contribute to and prepareannual budget and monthly forecasts with the latest information on costs and income. Build profitability reporting on a client and vertical basis across the business. Present financial information to senior leadership and management teams across the business. Undertake project work as required.

What Skills and Experience Will You Have?

Essential

Accountancy qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent). Proficiency in financial systems and MS Excel. Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience in managing and influencing stakeholders both internally and externally. Ability to work cross-functionally with both finance and non-finance teams. Proven ability to investigate issues and embed process changes to address them.

Desirable

Experience of using Xero Experience managing a small finance team.

How we will support you?

We go beyond expectations for our colleagues as well as the people we support. Our reward package includes much more than pay, 25 days annual leave (both pro-rata), hybrid work and pension.

We recognise our Colleagues who go above and beyond, providing things like a Discount scheme, which includes high street, supermarkets, flash sales, gym memberships, as well as access to wellbeing assistance and more.

Our people are pretty fabulous. We take pride and pleasure in helping others to flourish, and we have a great energy as well as a strong sense of teamwork.

If you think you would thrive in this role and environment, let's talk!