Finance Manager
Location: Sewell Head Office, Geneva Court, Geneva Way, Leads Road, Hull, HU7 0DG
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000, plus bonus opportunity of up to 20% of annual salary based on performance
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, 8.30am – 5.00pm, with 1 hour for lunch
Role Overview
Working as part of our Group finance team, the successful candidate will provide essential finance and accounting support for Sewell Advisory. With time, there will also be an opportunity to pick up responsibility for additional ancillary companies.
On a day-to-day basis you will coordinate and complete a wide scope of finance activities, from invoice processing and credit control to cash book reconciliation and preparing management accounts and commercial reports.
You will also be responsible for supporting the wider Group finance team as required, to meet the needs of the business. This role also requires some local travel to our Bridgehead (Hessle) Office.
Key Responsibilities
- Processing sales & purchase invoices
- Credit control
- Cash book preparation and posting
- Prepayments and accruals preparation & posting
- Supporting preparation of management accounts
- Supporting preparation of statutory accounts
- Supporting VAT return preparation
- Supporting the wider finance team as required to meet the needs of the business, including providing holiday and sickness cover
Skills and Attributes
As well as exhibiting our company behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Customer Focused, a Team Player and Doing the Right Thing, the successful person will have the following experience:
Essential:
- Full driving licence, valid in the UK and own transport
- Previous experience of working in a finance environment
- Be commercially aware from a business perspective
- A strong belief in delivering great customer service
- Excellent communication skills
- Hold at least an intermediate level of Microsoft Office experience
- Excellent organisation skills and a hands-on approach, with the ability to prioritise workload efficiently
- Have the ability to work both as a team member in a busy working environment
- Possess a positive approach to learning, development and progression
- Have a flexible attitude towards hours worked and interest in supporting the wider team during holiday and sickness periods
Desirable:
- Have completed AAT or be part-qualified
- Experience in preparation of statutory and management accounts
- Experience in VAT return preparation
- Cashflow preparation experience
- Experience of specialist finance/accounting software (specifically MS Business Central)
- Experience of PowerBI reporting
- Project management work-in-progress analysis
- £35,000-£40,000 per annum dependant on experience
- Bonus opportunity of up to 20% of annual salary; measurement based on company and personal performance
- 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 28 days
- Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates, learn more here: Employee Ownership - Sewell Group (sewell-group.co.uk)
- Auto Enrolment pension
- Staff discounts
- High Street & Retail discount schemes
- Bike 2 Work Scheme
- Technology Scheme
- Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes
Click here to take a look at our flexible reward and benefits offer!
Sewell is an equal opportunities employer, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services. As a committed safe employer, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be carried out for the successful candidate of this role.
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