Finance manager - united kingdom, manchester

are you an experienced finance manager looking for a new opportunity?

main duties and responsibilities:

as finance manager you will be responsible for a team of management accountants and accounts assistants, ensuring a strong control environment end-to-end across all functions within financial reporting. enabling clean audit reports, leading process improvements, and coaching and developing the core general accounting team within the function.

based in manchester, the successful candidate will be a qualified, ccab registered accountant with at least four years' pqe within a shared service / finance operation function.

skills and experience required:

able to use your understanding of our customers to take proactive action to improve the customer experience and exceed their expectations. ability to build rapport and engage collaboratively with staff at all levelsable to spot opportunities, engage the right people, and create plans to make things happen. well organised, able to prioritise effectively and work to deadlinesholds self and others to account for meeting goals and celebrating success and take ownership of tasks, maintaining focus when tight deadlines are requiredability to work with minimum supervisiona role model with high standards of honesty and integrity that shows consistency between what they say and how they acttalent - able to see developing talent as an organisational imperativeviews innovation as a priority and can show creative thinking when solving problems, wanting to resolve these as quickly as possibletakes a proactive interest in other business areas and bringing the right people together to ensure we deliver what's importantcreates a climate where colleagues are motivated to do their bestthink digital - we're continuing to evolve as a digital-first business, and that means we need you to have the right knowledge, skills, and appetite to effectively use digital systems to support delivery of an efficient, robust finance environmentit literate with advanced knowledge of ms office, especially excelexcellent time-management and prioritisation skills with strong attention to detail and accuracyproven leadership experience of an operational finance teamproven leadership / people management experienceproven experience in a service-oriented culture including management of slasproven experience in driving a culture of continuous improvementexperience in continuous improvementsexperience in change managementactive participation in systems improvement/implementation programmespreferably good erp experiencequalified acca, aca, or cima or similarly recognised accounting qualificationlean / six sigma skills would be an advantagethis finance manager role would suit candidates with previous experience, and/or experience in the following: general ledger manager, ccab, accountant.

essential skillsto be successful in this finance manager role you will be:

a role model for our business values, using your personality and behaviours to maintain integrity and a can-do attitudehave a willingness to go the extra mile and always strive to seek job satisfactionalways bring your authentic self to workpride yourself on building loyal and mutual trusting relationships with colleagues, tcs, and supplier partnersrespect and value diversity, creating an environment that is inclusive of allbe focused on your own personal development as well as the future of our business, contributing new and innovate ideas and ways of workingactively seek out opportunities and find meaningfulness at worknot be afraid to use your voice to challenge or reinforce the status quo, guided by our values and behavioursbe highly motivated, ambitious, driven by success, and comfortable working towards targetsabout companywe've been changing lives for over 28 years as the leading travel marketplace for self-employed travel entrepreneurs, empowering over 2,000 global independent travel agents to run successful leisure and corporate travel businesses as part of a company that truly cares and one that has never wavered from its purpose; to redefine what personal means for a travel business.

our travel counsellors are supported by a team of over 270 super talented people in our support offices to help them create unique, inspiring, and exciting experiences for their customers, building lasting personal relationships that brings them back to us, time and time again.

we're fired up for the future as the demand for travel after covid-19 returns even greater than before, and we're looking for the brightest and the best to come and join us to take our business to the next level.

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