Finance Team Manager

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Overview

The Role and Team

We are looking for a talented Finance Manager to join the Finance department and lead the development of our Transactional teams. Reporting into the Financial Controller you will be expected to oversee and coordinate a wide range of duties with multiple internal and external customer touch points.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading the teams to drive operational excellence and support our growth trajectory. Your primary focus will be on managing the teams, optimizing processes, implementing automation solutions, and ensuring accuracy and efficiency in our financial operations.

Who we are

We're the leading food producer for the health and social care sector, providing delicious, nutritious and sustainable meals for people at home or in care.

Wiltshire Farm Foods, one of our trade names, is the UK's premier home-delivery service for ready-made meals.

Through our wide range of well-presented, nutritious meals to suit every taste and dietary need, we aim to make a real difference to lives of elderly and vulnerable people in care.

We're proud to be a Living Wage employer and member of the Ethical Trading Initiative. We support British food and farming and operate a successful programme of waste reduction and resource efficiency across our whole business.

In addition to your salary you will receive a comprehensive training program, 25 days annual leave holiday entitlement, the ability to buy additional annual leave, retail discounts, free car parking, subsidised staff restaurant, free turkey (or voucher) at Christmas and much more!

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

The duties will include but not limited to:

• Transactional teams month-end reporting and month-end checks/updates to close the sub-ledgers.
• Carry out quarterly reports for specified contracts in a timely manner, by collating and presenting the information in the required report format.
• Ensuring the processing of recharges to the franchise network for various marketing campaigns or monthly charges and raising invoices to specific franchises for various services/support are carried out on n ad-hoc basis.
• Work in partnership with the franchise network and other internal departments to assist with data records, invoicing, or contract queries.
• Managing the P-card transactions and reconciliations.
• Managing the debt review meetings, reporting on aged debt and overseeing the accounts that are progressed to legal.
• Liasing with IT department on EDI and invoicing matters.
• Liasing with Sales and Customer Services on customer account issues.
• Taking a lead on projects relevant to the transactional teams.
• Ensure best practices and procedures within the teams are implemented.

Qualifications/Personal Qualities

About you

Essential :

• Experienced Finance manager, with experience in motivating their team(s)
• Great attention to detail with a high level of accuracy in financial data
• Strong communication skills, a natural leader
• Problem solver
• Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Always looking for ways to improve processes, simplify and increase service provided
• Upholds principles and values - delivers expected results whilst maintaining the highest standards, always ensuring internal procedures are followed
• Planning and organisation - must be able to plan and organise daily/weekly tasks, prioritise appropriately and ensure all tasks are completed in a timely manner

Desirable :

• AAT Level 4 qualified or equivalent qualification
• Experience of working with SAP accounting packages
• Experience of working with Microsoft Dynamics 2009
• Ability to use Microsoft Word and Excel to an advanced level
• Learning and development - makes use of day to day experiences to further their understanding of the role and looks to gain relevant training where possible
• Flexibility - adopts a flexible approach to working in order to cope with day to day setbacks and obstacles whilst maintaining a positive outlook during periods of high pressure
• Analytical - capable of analysing all forms of data including numerical and verbal in order to reach rational judgements from the information received. Able to form workable solutions to tasks and problems