Finance Manager

Are you ready to take on a challenging role where you can demonstrate your outstanding financial skills and make a significant impact? MONY Group is seeking a Finance Manager to join our team in Ewloe; This is an exceptional opportunity to be part of a world-class company committed to excellence and innovation in the Finance/Insurance sector.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an audit manager making their first step into industry. We have a proven track record of developing colleagues who have followed this route, subsequently progressing into a wide range of other roles within our Group. 

What can you expect in the role?

• Lead and manage financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes
• Develop and implement financial strategies that align with our business goals
• Ensure strict compliance with financial regulations and standards
• Coordinate the preparation of accurate financial reports and statements
• Collaborate with various departments to drive financial performance and efficiency
• Find opportunities for cost savings and revenue improvement
• Provide insightful financial analysis to support decision-making
• Mentor and develop a team of finance professionals

Day to day this will cover areas such as:

• Produce monthly accounts packs with analysis and commentary on P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash flow. Control and report CAPEX spend.
• Ensure application and improvement of processes, procedures, and controls, including internal controls reporting and documentation.
• Prepare, review, and promptly address issues in Balance Sheet reconciliations.

• Produce Group consolidated and individual statutory accounts, draft press releases, presentation materials, Annual Report, and Audit Committee papers.
• Act as lead contact for external auditors and manage half-year and year-end planning and audits.
• Review and analyse accounting regulation changes, prepare technical papers to propose and support accounting treatments.

• Maintain and create detailed cash flow forecasting, aligned with quarterly re-forecasting.
• Report and manage cash balances, recommend mitigating actions, monitor loan drawdown/repayment, and bank covenants.

• Prepare, check and deliver corporate and deferred tax calculations for statutory reporting.
• Ensure accurate and timely returns and payments for corporate tax and VAT.
• Maintain and develop in-house expertise through training sessions and materials.

• Assist the OPEX & Headcount Manager and Commercial Finance teams in producing annual budgets and rolling forecasts.

• Collaborate with the Systems team to develop Anaplan/Tableau and Workday functionality, moving away from Excel-based inputs/outputs while improving the control environment.
• Play a key role in Workday integrations, managing projects, liaising with different teams, and ensuring accurate and timely reporting.

What are we looking for?

• Accounting Qualification: Encouraged to have ACA or ACCA due to the focus on statutory and technical reporting.
• Technical Knowledge: Strong in accounting and tax, including IFRS, UK GAAP, Corporation Tax, VAT, and PAYE.
• Group Reporting Experience: Experienced in the year-end Group reporting process, from Audit Committee papers to Annual Report delivery.
• Analytical Skills: Capable of reviewing and analysing complex technical accounting issues and communicating them effectively to finance and non-finance team members.
• Relationship Building: Able to form close working relationships with management, understand their requirements, gain their trust, and influence them when necessary.
• Business Model Understanding: Knowledgeable about the key drivers of the MONY Group business model and the impact of developments or changes.
• Proactive and Constructive: Proactive behaviours with the ability to offer constructive advice or solutions.
• Leadership and Motivation: Ability to motivate and lead, with a focus on coaching, development, and fostering a culture of constant process improvement.

• A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Team
• 1st stage: 1 hour, remote VC interview
• 2nd stage: 1 hour, face to face interview in our Ewloe office

Join us at MONY Group and be part of a team that strives to compete at the highest level and deliver flawless financial solutions. We are determined to help you grow and succeed in your career!

Our benefits include up to 30 days holiday, a bonus, enhanced parental leave, and tools that empower our supportive culture. You can find a full list here.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We're an inclusive, anti-racist and equal opportunity employer that values diversity. This means we respect and embrace differences in gender identity, race, ethnic origin, sexual expression and orientation, religion and faith, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, social background, education and way of thinking. We’re a place where you can be you.

Our customers and users come from different backgrounds, as do our colleagues. We welcome applications from everyone, and particularly encourage women and Black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates to apply as we’re actively building representation that’s more closely reflective of the communities we serve. Our appointments are made on merit, following a robust and objective assessment process, and the candidate with the highest score is offered the role. If you’re passionate about our purpose of helping households save money and excited about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.

We understand that job adverts only say so much and you’re likely to have a lot of questions. If you’d like to know anything before applying such as more on the location, salary, our parental leave policy etc, please just let us know and we’ll be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role, Tom at [email protected]