Finance Manager

Sewell Wallis are working with market leaders in the Logistics and Distribution industry to secure an experienced Finance Manager to oversee a team of 6 and manage a handful of open and closed book contracts.

You'll need to be a natural leader, who enjoys developing their staff, you'll be proactive with process improvement and always work to find efficiencies within the team. A hands-on manager, who isn't afraid to get stuck in with the day to day when needed.

Industry experience is preferred, having warehouse, distribution, supply chain knowledge would prove useful in an application, as well as the understanding of open & closed book contracts. You will be the key person interacting with clients/customers, so customer service experience and the ability to maintain and nurture working relationships is significant for this role.

What will you be doing?

• Managing a small team of staff, providing direction, feedback, and monitoring performance and progression.
• Managing all financial activities to add value to the clients and business to achieve KPIs.
• Ensure that a reliable service is provided, whilst meeting budget requirements and controls are met.
• Leading the finance and commercial relationship with customers on the contracts under your ownership.
• Leading on annual budgets and forecasting.
• Ensure audits are conducted in line with company policies and regulation.
• Responsibility for driving safety, people, service, financial and commercial performance.

What skills are we looking for?

• Accounting qualification ACCA/ACA/CIMA
• Proven experience with managing a team
• Distribution/Logistics/Supply Chain industry experience
• Knowledge of open/closed contracts
• Customer relationship management experience

What's on offer?

• A competitive salary of up to �60,000 starting salary.
• Car Allowance (approx. �5K)
• Hybrid working with 2 days from the office - Tuesdays and Thursdays ideally.
• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays off
• Health care policy

Send us your CV below, or contact Inci Evcil for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.