Role Overview
This is a permanent opportunity for an experienced Finance Manager to take ownership of the day-to-day finance function within a small, collaborative business.
The successful candidate will be a hands-on finance professional with strong experience across management reporting, bookkeeping, payroll, VAT, reconciliations, credit control and financial controls. A key focus of the role will be producing accurate monthly management reports and providing meaningful financial information to support business performance and decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Take full day-to-day ownership of the finance function, ensuring accurate and up-to-date financial records.
- Prepare and produce monthly management accounts and financial reports.
- Provide monthly analysis of financial performance, highlighting key trends, variances and areas requiring attention.
- Prepare profit and loss reports, balance sheet reconciliations and supporting schedules.
- Manage bookkeeping, bank reconciliations, invoicing and credit control.
- Monitor cash flow and provide regular cash flow reporting and forecasting.
- Prepare and submit VAT returns accurately and within required deadlines.
- Process monthly payroll using Sage Payroll, including year-end requirements such as P60s and P11Ds.
- Monitor income, expenditure and outstanding debt to support effective financial control.
- Work closely with the external accountant, providing financial information and supporting documentation as required.
- Support budgeting and forecasting activities.
- Maintain robust financial controls and ensure processes are followed consistently.
- Review and improve finance processes, reporting procedures and internal controls.
- Provide clear and accurate financial information to senior management to support business planning and decision-making.
- Support year-end processes and provide information required for statutory accounts.
Skills & Experience
- Strong practical experience within a Finance Manager, Management Accountant, Senior Bookkeeper or similar finance role.
- Proven experience preparing monthly management accounts and financial reports.
- Strong understanding of profit and loss reporting, balance sheets and financial reconciliations.
- Experience preparing VAT returns and managing associated deadlines.
- Practical payroll processing experience, ideally using Sage Payroll.
- Strong knowledge of bank reconciliations, invoicing, credit control and cash flow management.
- Experience supporting budgeting and forecasting would be advantageous.
- Confident analysing financial information and communicating key findings to senior management.
- Strong Microsoft Excel and accounting software skills.
- Excellent numerical and organisational skills.
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Proactive and capable of managing the finance function independently.
- Formal finance qualifications would be advantageous but are not essential, with strong practical experience being the key requirement.
Offering
- Salary depending on experience.
- Full-time, permanent position.
- Based in Livingston.
- Working hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm.
- Predominantly office-based, with some flexibility available.
- 20 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays, increasing by one day per year up to 25 days.
- 3% matched pension contribution.
- Vitality Healthcare.
- On-site parking.
