Location: Cardiff or Bicester (Hybrid – 3 days in office)
We are looking for an experienced, hands-on finance manager to join our team on a 6-month fixed-term contract to provide parental leave cover. This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a broad, high-impact finance role, working closely with the CFO and partnering across the business to support both operational excellence and strategic decision-making.
As interim finance manager, you will lead the day-to-day operational finance function while ensuring accurate reporting, robust controls, and insightful financial analysis to support business performance.
You'll take ownership of core finance activities, from management accounts and payroll through to forecasting and business partnering, while leading a small team and contributing to wider organisational goals.
Key responsibilities to include:
- Oversee the smooth running of the finance function, ensuring all transactions are processed accurately and on time
- Lead the preparation of monthly management accounts and ensure high-quality financial reporting
- Maintain compliance with PAYE, VAT, and statutory requirements, including filings
- Support treasury activities, including cash flow and currency risk management
- Strengthen internal controls, audit processes, and financial procedures
- Deliver timely, insightful financial analysis to support business decisions
- Develop and maintain forecasts and financial models aligned to strategic plans
- Produce clear and impactful management information packs
- Support pricing, project accounting, and performance analysis
- Work collaboratively with project leads, budget holders, and senior stakeholders
- Provide financial insight to drive performance, profitability, and growth
- Translate financial data into clear, actionable recommendations for non-finance colleagues
- Support the wider team with guidance on finance processes and best practices
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and learning within the finance function
Requirements
You're a proactive and commercially minded finance manager who can hit the ground running in a fast-paced, people-based business.
You'll bring:
- Qualified accountant or finalist (CIMA, ACCA)
- Experience in an SME, consultancy, or professional services environment
- Strong technical knowledge across management accounts, payroll, and compliance
- A proven ability to partner with non-financial stakeholders and influence decisions
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, approachable style
- Confidence balancing strategic thinking with operational detail
- Prior experience as a finance manager in a founder-led, or PE-backed, SME business would be beneficial.
Benefits
Competitive compensation and benefits package, including:
- A ‘learning’ culture focused on personal development and supported by study bursaries
- Workplace pension scheme
- Range of high street, supermarket, restaurant, gym membership, holiday and entertainment discounts via Pluxee
- Employee assistance programme
- Employees are given an additional day of leave for: their wedding and moving house
- Annual leave purchase scheme of up to 10 additional days’ leave per year
If you would like to request any reasonable adjustment, for any part of the recruitment process (including application), please let us know by emailing [email protected]
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What We Do
Established in 2011, HEOR is a leading independent market access consultancy with a reputation for high-quality, innovative market access strategies, evidence generation and value communications. We are a team of over 90 consulting and research professionals based in the UK and Germany and our expertise spans market access strategy, health economics, health technology assessments, pricing and reimbursement, data science and analytics, systematic literature reviews, evidence generation, medical writing, stakeholder engagement and value communication. We have a global presence and work across the UK, Europe, US, Canada, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East to provide a fully integrated market access service across the product life-cycle. HEOR Ltd acts as a trusted partner to the world’s major pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies. Our clients value our flexibility, integrity to scientific principles and best practice and our ethos of true partnership, where our track record speaks to deep and continuing client collaborations, across all disease areas and service offerings.
