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Finance Manager

Brigg

Full-timeFinance

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000

Overview

 

Axi Recruitment is pleased to be working exclusively with a leading manufacturing business to recruit a Qualified Finance Manager. This is a key senior role with full responsibility for the plant finance function, ensuring best-in-class accounting, forecasting, and statutory reporting. As a core member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will play a pivotal role in supporting strategic and operational business decisions. Our client is a market-leading provider within their niche. 

 

Job Details

• As part of the SLT, partnering closely with the Plant Manager to support day to day operations and overall facility performance.
• Maintain strong internal control processes to ensure compliance, accuracy, and financial governance across the site.
• Oversee the accuracy and integrity of all financial accounts, ensuring the accounting function consistently aligns with board policy and recognised accounting standards.
• Prepare annual budgets, produce monthly management accounts, and generate weekly financial forecasts in line with business needs.
• Deliver routine and proactive financial reporting to support decision making and enable effective business planning.
• Provide analytical, investigative, and advisory insight on commercial matters and business impacts.
• Support the payroll process by acting as the primary link between site team members and the external payroll team.
• Ensure that all required ledgers, records, and accounting documents—such as payroll files and expense allocations—are maintained to meet both internal and statutory requirements.
• Work collaboratively with external auditors to complete year end statutory accounts.
• Coordinate with external tax advisors to ensure all tax returns are completed accurately and submitted on time.
• Develop and manage systems to monitor departmental KPIs and budgets, ensuring performance targets are tracked and controlled.
• Assist in preparing and reviewing capital expenditure proposals, supporting the evaluation of major projects.
• Build knowledge of product costing structures to support pricing, efficiency analysis, and wider financial understanding.
• Produce clear profitability insights at product and customer level to support strategic commercial decisions.

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, or ACA)

Experience

• Proven experience within a manufacturing environment
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and sensitivity to information.
• Proven analytical thinking, results orientation and problem-solving skills.
• Strong organisational skills in handling multiple responsibilities simultaneously with high attention to details and a high level of accuracy.
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of contacts from corporate to manufacturing employees.
• Drives a high performing culture and Continuous Improvement

Benefits

• Bonus Opportunity
• Holidays – 25 days per annum plus bank/public holidays 
• Life Assurance – 4x scheme earnings
• Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Occupational Health platform
• Benefits/Discount platform

Axi Recruitment Ltd are a professional recruitment consultancy delivering high-quality recruitment services to our clients nationwide. We regularly receive a large number of applicants to our job advertisements, which impacts our ability to provide individual feedback. If you have not received a response to your application within 14 days of submission, we regret to say that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.