Interim Finance Manager

Finance Manager

£280 -£300 per day


Aila is excited to announce that we’re in an exclusive partnership with one of the leading Home Builders in the UK on a campaign to find an ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified Finance Manager on an initialy 3 month interim basis in Northampton. This role will support the Regional Financial Controller and take control of all management accounting and stakeholder management, leading business review meetings for a £100m division of a much larger Group.

You will be a hands on Finance Manager that can take the lead in all management accounting and supervise one direct report, looking after the whole region of a very successful Home Builder.

This company has excelled in recent years and has gone from negative profit to £8m EBITDA in just 3 years, sighting further increases on this too.

The purpose of this role is to deliver financial management information to support decision making in the business to ensure profitable growth across the region, covering for a 3 month interim basis as they wait for somebody to join.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that a robust, risk balanced and achievable 5 year business plan is prepared and submitted to timetable
• Prepare monthly profit and cash forecast to timetable
• Provide clear variance reports, bridges and risk analysis supported by clear commentary
• Deliver robust and accurate Monthly Management Accounts to timetable and ensure adherence to accounting policy and procedures
• Ensure robust and accurate monthly reconciliations are carried out in line with company requirements
• Provide accurate weekly cash forecasts
• Understand and improve the working capital cycle, working to enhance the cash balance and maximise return on capital
• Provide clear reporting on sales prices and costs to underpin the regional culture of maximising individual site profitability and supporting blended margin profit recognition
• Produce information to support monthly full site life reviews and quarterly sales price reviews
• Develop best practice procedures and reporting, working with Divisional FD, Central Finance and regional heads
• Review actual marketing spend and working with the Sales Director to review forecast spend and ensure an accurate forecast
• Working with Regional FD & FC to develop best in class Regional Finance Team
• As required, act as deputy to Regional FD & FC in their absence

To be successful in this role, you will be a qualified accountant with previous experience in a medium/large organisation within the construction, development or the property industry, or experience working in a multi-site national and complex environment with exposure to project accounting. You will naturally have advanced Excel and be highly analytical with the ability to draw insights from complex data and provide meaningful analysis and commentary.

Aila is a specialist finance recruitment business that was established with a modern vision of what a recruitment partner should be. With a genuine goal to provide the best jobs to the best people, we operate as an extended arm of our client’s business and a career coach for our candidates ongoing development.

Apply now for more information on this role. If you’re looking to make a move but this role is different to what you’re looking for, get in contact with us today and start a partnership with a finance agency that puts you first.