GAMMA Hiring for Finance Manager at Newbury Full Time

We are a leading supplier of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) across Europe.

Our Finance team are hiring and in need of an experienced Finance Manager role to partner with our leadership team and provide guidance and oversight to the Management Accounts team.

This is a hands-one, analytical role working with collaborative stakeholders.

What you’ll be doing :

• Main point of contact working closely with the business Senior Leadership team to analyse, understand and provide key insights into results, trends and KPIs to facilitate business decision making and provide ad hoc reporting as required.
• Proactively identify further areas to improve with subsequent implementation by working with key stakeholders in the business and the Direct Finance Director.
• Overseeing the monthly commission process to ensure payments are fully understood, up to date whilst ensuing key controls and processes are adhered too in line with Commission guidelines.
• Oversee and provide guidance to the Management Accounts team through the month end process to ensure accurate and timely results are reported in line with timeframes and applicable IFRS accounting standards.
• Develop project accounting to fully understand project profitability and true cost to serves.
• Review, challenge and understand monthly results with the management accounts teams against forecast and budget and communicate key trends and findings.
• Leading the monthly review with the Direct FD and UK FD to explain business unit results.
• Prepare and maintain the monthly Direct Board pack and submission of results to group
• Prepare, review, challenge and interpret the consolidated annual budget, quarter forecast and 5-year plans with associated presentations and support.
• Provide high level monthly rolling risk and opportunity adjusted forecasts to guide the business.

The candidate

• A strong technical Accountant with a top 10 firm audit background and proven industry experience.
• Experience covering month end activities and Finance Planning and Analysis.
• A continuous improvement mindset who is comfortable to challenge, develop and refine processes and current thinking.
• Candidates will require advanced Excel skills, a good level or desire to learn SQL and Microsoft Power BI.
• Proven project accounting experience.
• Proactive and self-driven with an ability to work on their own and as part of a team.
• Team Management and development experience.
• A good communicator with different levels in an organization and to both finance and non-finance people.
• Ability to be hands on with the day-to-day accounting activities and appreciation of the broader picture.
• Recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• Experience of UKGAAP and IFRS.

We are working in a hybrid model – with the expectation of a minimum of 2 days per week working in the office.