Assistant Finance Manager

Our client is a dominant business in its field throughout the UK and Europe and seek to hire an Assistant Finance Manager to support the senior finance team with a growing business unit. The role is broad covering financial accounting, management accounting, budgeting and forecasting and manages a team of 2 direct reports.Responsibilities:Own the daily end-to-end finance processes and month-end close processes across areas of responsibility, ensuring understanding of results, accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.Support the preparation and review of monthly management accounts, ensuring accurate and timely submissions to Group for monthly reporting.Maintain an effective control environment and strong balance sheet control, including review of reconciliations and timely issue resolution.Ensure compliance with UK accounting standards, financial policies and statutory requirements.Support external audit processes.Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting to senior management.Responsibility for payroll reporting across the business unit.Ownership of the accounting and reporting for the business unit.Input to budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning activities, working with the regional finance team to ensure current and predicted performance is understood.A salary of £50,000-£55,000 is on offer plus 15% bonus and benefits. ..... full job details .....