Finance Manager
CV-LibraryExeter, DevonpermanentPosted: 3 July 2026
Apply NowThe Finance Manager is a senior, regional role responsible for leading the local finance function, running robust financial controls, and acting as a commercial partner to operational departments. The position focuses heavily on management accounting, requiring the ability to translate financial metrics into actionable insights to drive the business unit's budgeting, forecasting, and decision-making processes.
Core Responsibilities
* Management Reporting: Prepare the monthly management accounts package for the regional division. Write detailed commercial commentary explaining year-to-date and full-year forecast variances against budget for senior leadership.
* Commercial Business Partnering: Act as a finance partner to regional operational and technical departments. Challenge operational assumptions and collaborate to identify and achieve regional cost savings.
* Budgeting & Forecasting: Drive the periodic detailed business planning process. Model multi-year profit and cash flow forecasts alongside forward project margin projections using company accounting systems.
* Cost & Project Analysis: Analyse, forecast, and report on cost excesses, savings, and variations. Review project expenditure and asset valuation reports alongside Commercial Managers to clear over or under-recovery issues.
* Financial Control: Lead the monthly close process to ensure clean sub-ledgers and accurate general ledger closure within strict group deadlines.
* Team Leadership: Line-manage, mentor, and upskill a local team of finance staff through performance management and structured objective setting.
* Executive Deputisation: Substitute and present monthly management accounting outputs for the Finance Director at regional senior leadership meetings.
Key Requirements
* Qualifications: Fully qualified accountant holding an active ACA, ACCA, or CIMA credential.
* Experience: Explicit, hands-on experience working as a management accountant alongside prior exposure to financial accounting or external auditing frameworks.
* Leadership: Proven track record of staff management, team development, and workload delegation.
* Technical Skills: Advanced capabilities in Microsoft Excel (data manipulation and modelling) paired with experience using enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financial consolidation tools.
* Communication: Ability to explain complex management accounting adjustments and budget metrics clearly to non-financial operational managers
Core Responsibilities
* Management Reporting: Prepare the monthly management accounts package for the regional division. Write detailed commercial commentary explaining year-to-date and full-year forecast variances against budget for senior leadership.
* Commercial Business Partnering: Act as a finance partner to regional operational and technical departments. Challenge operational assumptions and collaborate to identify and achieve regional cost savings.
* Budgeting & Forecasting: Drive the periodic detailed business planning process. Model multi-year profit and cash flow forecasts alongside forward project margin projections using company accounting systems.
* Cost & Project Analysis: Analyse, forecast, and report on cost excesses, savings, and variations. Review project expenditure and asset valuation reports alongside Commercial Managers to clear over or under-recovery issues.
* Financial Control: Lead the monthly close process to ensure clean sub-ledgers and accurate general ledger closure within strict group deadlines.
* Team Leadership: Line-manage, mentor, and upskill a local team of finance staff through performance management and structured objective setting.
* Executive Deputisation: Substitute and present monthly management accounting outputs for the Finance Director at regional senior leadership meetings.
Key Requirements
* Qualifications: Fully qualified accountant holding an active ACA, ACCA, or CIMA credential.
* Experience: Explicit, hands-on experience working as a management accountant alongside prior exposure to financial accounting or external auditing frameworks.
* Leadership: Proven track record of staff management, team development, and workload delegation.
* Technical Skills: Advanced capabilities in Microsoft Excel (data manipulation and modelling) paired with experience using enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financial consolidation tools.
* Communication: Ability to explain complex management accounting adjustments and budget metrics clearly to non-financial operational managers