Permanent Job Alert:
Title: Senior Finance Manager
Location: Central London
Salary: Up to £65,000 + Benefits
Contact: Thomas.harris@forsythbarnes.com
Brief Overview:
Our corporate identity is defined by the phrase Excellence through Specialism. Agile and highly focused, we target specific market segments where our expertise enables us to deliver significant value. By combining specialized knowledge, experience, and rigorous analysis, we aim to achieve and sustain exceptional risk-adjusted returns.
Our lending activities are dedicated to supporting UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), addressing diverse business needs. We follow a credit philosophy rooted in robust cash flows and clear repayment capacity, ensuring that our approach consistently aligns with delivering the best outcomes for our clients.
Our Vision is to be the bank of choice in our selected markets. Our Mission is to create positive results for our customers, rewarding careers for our employees, and outstanding value for our shareholders, all driven by a culture grounded in integrity and excellence.
JOB Requirements:
- Experience of leading a team and a proven track record of developing staff
- Experience of working within the operational side of finance.
- Attention to detail, ensuring precision and accuracy in recording and reconciling financial transactions.
- Time Management, efficiently managing multiple tasks, deadlines, and priorities.
- Good communication skills and able to build positive, constructive relationships with internal stakeholders
- Strives for continual improvement.
- Proactive with a willingness to learn
- Ethical Standards, maintaining the highest ethical standards and confidentiality in handling financial information
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
- Strong understanding of logistics processes and best practices. −
- Good understanding of customs processes within the UK and internationally is preferred but not essential.
JOB Responsibilities:
- Responsible for managing all cash in and out of the business, ensuring Finance Assistants are processing transactions in line with their internal SLAs
- Oversight of Accounts Payable, driving best practice to ensure we are paying suppliers within the appropriate payments terms and enhancing internal reporting to demonstrate performance against SLAs.
- Working with HR conduct a high level review of the monthly payroll and pension submissions to ensure these are made on time.
- Developing and maintaining a learning plan for the apprentices to ensure they are fulfilling the requirements of their course.
- Management of treasury back office, ensuring adhoc treasury requests are processed within internal SLAs.
- Oversight of Bank reconciliation and suspense reconciliation produced by the Finance assistants, working with business lines to ensure any items are cleared down on timely basis.
- Recording of operational risk events with the risk function ensuring appropriate process and controls are in place to prevent reoccurrence.
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