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The role
This is a fixed term opportunity for 12 months.
The Finance team strives to be the best operators within the UK PE market, providing insight and operational financial support to the business to drive growth and promote a strong financial position. Over the last few years, the Finance team has grown significantly to give the business the infrastructure and capability to support its level of growth. This growth means that there are constant opportunities to accelerate your career and learn new areas of the business and the financials that underpin it.
With multiple companies and product verticals within the Bionic Group, the Finance Manager will have responsibility for ensuring accrued revenue is accurately recorded. They will work closely with our Commercial teams to ensure supplier issues are resolved and provide insight and analysis to Senior management. They will also be responsible for direct management of the Accounts Receivable Manager and Revenue Manager.
This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days a week working from our central London office.
The day to day
As the Finance Manager your key responsibilities will be:
- Managing and developing a team of 5 (with 2 direct reports) including setting objectives and day to day management
- Providing analysis and insight to Senior Management
- Reviewing accrued revenue balances and calculating appropriate provisions
- Identifying and implementing process improvements within the team
- Forecasting cash receipts and delivering cash targets
- Working closely with the Commercial team to address supplier issues
- Prepare and provide ad-hoc financial reporting and analysis in response to requests from the business
- External reporting including ONS surveys
About you
- Qualified accountant – ACA or equivalent
- Previous experience managing or supporting a team
- Strong technical background in finance, accounting and audit coupled with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- High level of computer literacy to include Excel, Word and Powerpoint
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Appetite to learn, improve, and share the formula with others
- Ability to quickly learn new processes
- Happy to take on new tasks which may be challenging
- Able to understand and manage tasks of differing priority
- Can meet deadlines and communicate effectively if they cannot be met
- Comfortable with juggling different tasks of equal priority
The interview process
- Initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition Team
- 1st stage interview with the Hiring Manager
- Technical assessment
- 2nd stage interview with the CFO
About Bionic Group
Bionic has over 650 people working across three office locations and four businesses; Bionic - London, Bionic Outbound – Luton, Think Business Loans – Chelmsford, and Smart – Field based agents.
We have a high energy work environment wherever the location; you can feel the passion the moment you walk through our door! Our work environments are packed with amazing people and energy, hubs of collaboration, creativity and fun! We’re one team, we get stuck in, we roll our sleeves up and we care about helping each other out wherever we can. We set the highest standards and show up every day to be the best version of ourselves.
Working at Bionic means provides you many opportunities to advance your career, with incredible progression, recognition, and reward.
Benefits
We know that our employees are what sets us aside from our competitors, our benefits are just part of the way we say thanks.
Enhance your health & wellbeing 🌱
- Private healthcare cover
- Employee Assistance Programme, including a virtual GP service, priority physio & talking therapies
- Eyecare scheme
Taking time away from work 🏖️
- 25 days annual leave plus the 8 UK bank holidays, increasing with tenure
- 1 paid family/religious day of leave per year - following successful probation period
- 1 paid charity volunteering day per year
- Option to buy/sell up to an additional 3 days leave per year
Family matters: for the special moments 🏠
- Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave
- 2 days off for your wedding upon joining, and up to 5 days after 2 years' service
- Flexible working options & a hybrid work approach
Financial wellbeing 💸
- Auto-enrolled salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Season ticket Loans, salary advances & loans to buy/rent a home – based on tenure
- Cycle to work scheme
Recognition 🌟
- Highflyers incentive, a VIP experience for our high performers across Bionic group to celebrate success
- Company summer & Christmas party celebrations, business and local zonely & annual awards and recognition
- Long service awards
Top Skills
What We Do
Bionic is an expert comparison service for SMEs. Our experts compare trusted UK business suppliers and talk customers through the results on their screens.
We’re the UK market leader, established for over a decade, with more than 200,000 UK businesses helped. Rated Excellent on Trustpilot.
Bionic is 7th in the Sunday Times ‘best companies to work for’. Our amazing people and high-performance culture are a key part of our business strategy. We’re part of something bigger than any one of us, and our energy and passion is striking.
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