Job Description

• Support billing process ensuring accurate and timely invoicing of projects
• Manage credit control ensuring debt is chased and visibility of outstanding debts is provided to the business
• Work with central finance team on staff expenses process in Rapport
• Support Rapport project management system to ensure financial information is accurate and maintained appropriately e.g. projects set up appropriately and cost rates are up to date
• Review and approve fortnightly payment run
• Provide financial information for annual insurance renewals
• Ultimately responsible for accuracy of monthly P&L and B/S and year-end cut off.
• Support revenue recognition process ensuring timely billing of fees, accurate timesheets, and revenue accrued/deferred where applicable.
• Ensure subcontractor accruals are maintained in line with work delivered.
• Reconcile customer payments with sales invoices in Rapport
• Managing relationship with central finance team, ensuring transactional and accounting issues are resolved and service levels are addressed.
• Manage audit queries and ultimately responsible for audit sign off.
• Review of year-end tax computation
• Collaborate with central finance team on standardization of processes
• Support central finance team to ensure timely completion of management accounts.
• Responsible for review and ultimate sign off of management accounts and timely delivery to management team.
• Deliver monthly reporting requirements for Group e.g. order backlog analysis
• Work with Ops Director to produce annual budgets and quarterly forecasts
• Responsible for delivery of budgets and forecasts to Group and any supplementary analysis
• Preparation of monthly cash flow forecast and working capital assumptions
• Support management team in the production of key management information including team fees, profitability, and utilization.
• Support Operation Manager with the production of rolling forecasts
• Support with ad-hoc analysis where required

What's on Offer

The part-time Finance Manager will receive the following:

• Benefits: pension, private medical insurance, 25 days holiday
• Flexible working arrangements: hybrid working available
• Career progression: could potentially go 5 days or evolve into a finance business partner position

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Qualifications: ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified Must-have technical skills: ability to close out month-ends, understand revenue recognition/deferred revenue, budgeting & forecasting, experience within the design and creative sector desirable
Competencies: excellent communication skills