Finance Manager

Finance Manager – St Austell – Permanent

💼 Salary: £40,000 – £45,000 + Benefits
📍 Location: St Austell, Cornwall
🕒 Hours: Full time
📅 Start: ASAP

Are you an experienced transactional finance professional looking for a role where you can lead, influence and drive high-quality financial operations? Our client, a successful and fast-growing organisation, is seeking a Finance Manager to oversee all day-to-day financial processing activities while managing a team of approximately 5–6 people.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with strong AP, AR, cash management and compliance experience who thrives in a fast-paced, detail-driven environment. You will play a key part in safeguarding cash, maintaining robust controls, and ensuring accurate, timely processing across the group.

What You’ll Be Doing

✔ Overseeing supplier onboarding, invoice processing, approvals and weekly payment runs
✔ Ensuring AP ledger accuracy including reconciliations, aged payables and debit balance clearance
✔ Leading customer onboarding, credit checks, billing, disputes and collections activity
✔ Driving AR performance including DSO reduction, dunning cycles, and credit management
✔ Managing daily cash positioning, multi-currency bank reconciliations and payment file preparation
✔ Maintaining bank mandates, user access and segregation of duties
✔ Processing FX transactions, reconciliations, month-end revaluations and supporting hedge management
✔ Managing card receipts, chargebacks, direct debit runs and online payment gateways
✔ Overseeing intercompany recharges, settlements and documentation
✔ Supporting Payroll Manager with cross-cover when required
✔ Embedding and maintaining a strong financial control framework
✔ Ensuring UK VAT compliance, correct coding and support with returns and reconciliations
✔ Supporting internal/external audits with samples, narratives and remediation activities
✔ Delivering accurate month-end close packs including AP accruals, GRNI, AR cut-off and cash recs
✔ Owning and maintaining department policies, SOPs and GDPR-compliant data management
✔ Leading the operation of finance systems (Sage, Paperless and others)
✔ Driving automation and reducing manual journal reliance
✔ Leading, coaching and developing a high-performing transactional finance team (5–6 people)
✔ Working cross-functionally to ensure compliance, accuracy and problem prevention
✔ Developing and reporting on transactional finance KPIs to drive performance

What We’re Looking For

💡 Proven experience within financial processing and transactional finance
💡 Experience managing and developing a transactional finance team (ideally 5–6 staff)
💡 Strong knowledge across AP, AR/credit control, cash management and payments
💡 Experience with FX processing, reconciliations and financial controls
💡 Solid understanding of VAT, tax compliance and UK regulatory frameworks
💡 Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
💡 Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
💡 High levels of professionalism, integrity and discretion
💡 Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Why You’ll Love This Role

✔ £40,000 – £45,000 salary
✔ Company pension
✔ Free parking
✔ On-site parking
✔ Opportunity to lead and shape a key finance function
✔ High degree of autonomy and influence over process improvement
✔ Varied workload across AP, AR, cash, FX and controls
✔ Supportive environment with a focus on continuous improvement
✔ Scope for long-term progression within finance leadership

📩 Apply now for a confidential conversation about this Finance Manager opportunity in St Austell.

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