UK Finance Manager
Alcumus.com
Office
Cardiff, UK
Full Time
Uk Finance Manager
Department: Finance
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Cardiff, UK
- Reporting To: UK Financial Controller
Description
Building innovative solutions; enabling safer workplaces for everyone.
We’ll create a safer working world, building software to support a global network of responsible buyers, suppliers and partners.
We take the pain out of compliance for over 50,000 organisations globally, helping them protect their people, their operations, and the planet.
Keeping our network of hiring clients, suppliers, and contractors compliant with the standards that matter most, from health and safety and sustainability to ethical behaviour by building best in class solutions.
We’re looking for a UK Finance Manager to support the UK Financial Controller across accounting, reporting, audits, tax, and internal controls. This role sits at the centre of the UK finance function and plays a key part in keeping the numbers accurate, compliant, and on time.
What That Means Day To Day
- Preparation of UK statutory financial statements and acting as a key contact for UK statutory and non-statutory audits
- Support and management of the month-end close, ensuring accurate and timely reporting
- Ownership of technical accounting areas including finance leases, fixed assets, acquisitions, and foreign currency transactions
- Oversight of UK tax requirements and treasury activities, ensuring compliance with financial regulations
- Strengthening financial controls and processes, supporting system changes, and resolving complex accounting issues
What You’Ll Need To Be Successful
This role suits a qualified accountant who is comfortable working at pace, close to the detail, and across multiple accounting topics. Strong technical foundations, a proactive mindset, and confidence working with stakeholders across finance are essential.Attention to detail is critical, alongside the ability to identify opportunities to improve controls, processes, and automation. The role requires balancing routine reporting with complex accounting work and change activity.
Essential requirements:
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
- Experience working within a finance team in a hands-on accounting role
- Strong attention to detail with a proactive, problem-solving approach
Desirable requirements:
- Experience with finance lease accounting
- Experience in technical accounting
- Data automation experience
- Team management experience
What You'Ll Get In Return
We have a hybrid workplace policy, where you will work from the office 3 days per week. Plus our Cardiff office is dog-friendly – expect a few friendly paws around the place!We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasize providing many ways to support our team to do their best work and below are some of the perks and benefits we offer:
Personal Health & Wellbeing / Benefits
>🍼 Enhanced Parental Leave
>🌴Generous annual leave
>🏥 Healthcare Plan
>💟 Annual Giving Day – an extra day to give back to yourself or your community
>🚲 Cycle-to-work Scheme
Future Planning
>💰Pension scheme with employer contributions
>🧬 Life Assurance – 3X base salary
>💸 Rewards Program – access to discounts and cashback
>🏫 LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development
Interested but don’t feel you meet all the requirements?
Our recruitment team assesses and reviews all applications against the role and business needs. We believe in people having transferable and soft skills and want you to know that we do consider where an individual might not meet all the criteria, but have the aptitude and capability, nonetheless. Our priority is to ensure we set people up for success. We will make a final call based on our determining whether we can offer the necessary support to upskill or provide the developmental support needed for you to get the best out of this opportunity with us!
Bring Your Whole Self to Work.
We are proudly an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that no candidate is discriminated against because of gender identity and expression, race, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, colour, region, creed, national origin, or sex. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team while continuing to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves.
What you can expect if you apply:
- A response to your application within 15 working days
- An interview process consisting of:
- An initial discovery call with the recruiter
- A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
- Additional interview (likely face to face) with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role
- An initial discovery call with the recruiter
- A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
- Additional interview (likely face to face) with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role