ID : 27936
Are you a qualified finance professional looking for an exciting new opportunity to develop your career?
How would you like to work for a global publishing organisation which provides international research to over 130 countries?
The Emerald Group has a turnover of £51m with 390 employees worldwide, based at our 4 UK and 11 international offices.
The Finance Team based at our head office in Bingley, West Yorkshire are currently looking for an assured and ambitious Finance Manager to drive through process improvements and lead the Transactions team in a growing and dynamic international business.
The Finance Manager is responsible for leading the transactions team to ensure accurate, efficient and timely recording and processing of financial transactions. A significant element of the role’s purpose is to identify and lead complex process improvements in the Transactions team, the wider Finance team and the overall business.
Key Responsibilities:
Ensure efficient and effective processes and financial controls by pro-actively identifying, leading and implementing areas of opportunity.
Driving continuous improvement, encouraging others to see things from new perspectives and to embrace and contribute to change.
Providing leadership and direction to the Transaction team, translating the business strategy into key deliverables and ensuring execution and delivery.
Line management responsibility for a team of up to four based in the UK, including management of the team’s workload and carrying out reviews and appraisals.
Matrix management and responsibility of a team of three overseas team members.
To act as the key point of contact in the Finance team for knowledge and understanding of the key Finance systems.
Performing key month-end reconciliations and processes and to review the wider Finance team’s month-end work for the Group.
Responsibility for the management of the transactions processing function including payments and banking, ensuring timely reconciliations are performed, ensuring the correct posting of invoices and vouchers, bank transactions, and issue of BACS & other payments, including international payments.
To partner the wider business to provide financial guidance and review as part of our forecasting process.
Finance Manager | Finance | ACCA | Accounting | Transactions
Essential Skills:
Skills:
Experience of leading a transactions team, demonstrating the ability to motivate and develop people.
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain financial information in a clear manner including strong presentational skills.
Good analytical skills, a logical and systematic working approach with a proactive enthusiastic mindset.
Proven organisational and project management skills, and the ability to work and collaborate with the wider business on large projects.
Knowledge:
A good knowledge and understanding of accounting principles is essential, qualified accountant, ACCA or equivalent.
Comprehensive experience of financial transactions management in a multi-national business including multi-national banking.
Experience of managing change within a finance team and around the business.
Strong excel skills which include the ability to sort and analyse large data sets through the use of pivot tables and key excel functions (including vlookups, sumifs).
Good knowledge of accounting systems (Microsoft GP is preferable but not essential).
Ability to identify and solve problems and communicate the solutions and associated benefits back to the wider business.
Behaviours & Attributes:
A tenacious, proactive and personable individual with the ability to lead a transactions team and work collaboratively with a wide variety of people across other departments.
Ability to work well under pressure and remain effective
Ability to initiate, manage and respond to change in a positive manner
Passion and determination to learn
Attention to fine detail
Confident in creating ideas and making decisions
About Company:
Nurturing fresh thinking that makes an impact
Emerald Publishing was founded in 1967 to champion new ideas that would advance the research and practice of business and management. Today, we continue to nurture fresh thinking in applied fields where we feel we can make a real difference, now also including health and social care, education and engineering. We publish over 300 journals, more than 2,500 books and over 1,500 case studies, via our dedicated research platform emeraldinsight.com
What matters to us:
Individuality: We have a strong sense of character, independence and spirit.
Ambition: We strive to go beyond what’s possible to delight our customers.
Purpose: Our entire motivation is to help our communities achieve better outcomes.
Curiosity: We listen, learn and challenge the status quo, paying attention to the details that matter.
Trust: Our open and responsive culture empowers people, creating transparency, responsibility and respect.
