Finance Manager - Private Sector

Sopra Steria have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Manager to join our team. The role is required to financially support some of our key customer contracts and business partner with senior / executive level management.

You will be responsible for being the principal finance lead for a group of customer contracts and delivery profit centre, reporting into the sector FD and line management of a part-qualified Assistant Finance Manager. Key to the role will be working with the senior stakeholders in Operations and Finance, providing insightful and useful analysis, overseeing P&L reporting, budgeting and forecasting. The ideal candidate will be comfortable building relationships with senior stakeholders and can act as a financial advocate to aid strategic commercial decision making.

The candidate will be comfortable managing various areas of financial support, ranging from overseeing financial period closes, creation of management reporting, actively participating and presenting in business reviews, managing budgeting and monthly forecast cycles, supporting pricing of new opportunities and investment appraisal, and inputting into cash management optimisation.

The role offers fantastic opportunity to join a certified “UK Top Great Place to Work” company and be part of a dynamic and evolving team. The role would ideally be suited to a qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/etc professional body qualification) experienced in management accounting, analysing business performance and business partnering senior stakeholders.

What you will be doing:

• Business partner the sector director / Senior Management
• Manage revenue recognition of key client service contracts and additional charges
• Produce key financial and management reporting
• Manage P&L forecast with input from operations stakeholders
• Manage monthly GL close on a timely and accurate basis (Monthly accounting adjustments/Variance analysis commentary/Forecasting)
• Produce and present business review documents to the MD/FD
• Input into cashflow forecasting and support optimisation
• Support in new service pricing and cost/benefit analysis of internal investments
• Ad Hoc financial analysis & modelling
• Aid commercial strategic decision making

What you’ll bring:

• Relevant Qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW, CIPFA, etc)
• Experience in business partnering senior stakeholders
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders
• Ability to work quickly and accurately with complex information and present in a clear format
• Confidence to challenge where numbers don’t look right
• Previous experience in P&L / Management Reporting / identifying risk and opportunity
• Experience of working with project accounting
• Keen attention to detail and an analytical natureFlexible and adaptable to cope with a fast paced environment in a large organisation

It would be great if you had:

• Oracle exposure

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Hemel Hempstead
Security Clearance Level: SC
Internal Recruiter: Alex
Salary: Upto £55k
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund
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