We’re looking for a Finance Manager who can combine sharp financial insight with strong business partnering to help drive our organisation forward. Join a trusted, passionate Finance & Purchasing team at the heart of the businesswhere your expertise, ideas and ambition will make a real impact.
You’ll need to be a qualified accountant with strong financial planning, reporting and controlling experience, and a genuine passion for partnering across the business. You’ll lead the preparation of budgets, forecasts and management accounts, support key departments in understanding and controlling their finances, and play a major role in managing significant commercial budgets.
You’ll bring excellent communication and presentation skills, solid Excel capability, and proven project management experience. Motivated by change and continuous improvement, you’ll be comfortable influencing stakeholders, analysing performance, and finding smarter ways of working. Knowledge of Oracle Financials or Power BI is a bonus.
If you’re commercially minded, collaborative, and ready to shape financial decisions at a strategic levelthis is your opportunity to grow, stretch and make a difference.
Ideally you’ll already be working at this level and are looking for a change to support further development and a growth. You might be a complete petrol head (which is great, but you don’t have to be), love innovation and believe that there’s ‘Always a better way’ or share our values and ethos around mobility and the environment If that sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, then read on for more info and detail about the position in the Job Profile.
About TGB In a nutshell
You may already follow Toyota & Lexus on social media or in the news and have seen the incredible things we’re achieving globally. What we do here at Toyota plays a key role in making that success happen.
Based at our Eco HQ in Surrey, we are the Sales and Marketing function for Toyota and Lexus in the UK, working to deliver exceptional experiences for our customers. Our diverse team is united by a shared goal: to do business in a way that customers love. We’re also proud to be recognised each year in The Times Top 100 Best Companies to Work Fora reflection of our culture, values, and commitment to our people.
Want to know more about life at TGB? Check out our blog.
Whistle Stop Overview
The Finance Manager plays a key role within the commercial finance function, supporting the business through accurate financial planning, insightful reporting and strong business partnering. Reporting to the Senior Manager for Financial Planning & Controlling, you will lead the preparation and review of budgets, forecasts and management accounts, and present financial insights to senior stakeholders.
A core part of the role is partnering with teams across the organisationincluding Go To Market, Product and other internal departmentsto help them understand and control their budgets, manage a significant retail and fleet incentive budget, and ensure financial data is robust and well-governed. You will also oversee aspects of daily banking and treasury, collaborate with shared service teams, and line manage a Finance Placement Student.
This is a highly visible, commercially focused role offering broad exposure across the business, the opportunity to influence decision-making, and the chance to drive improvements in financial processes and performance.
You can find more detail about the role on the Job Profile.
What you’ll get at TGB - Great people deserve great things
Enabling you to be the best you can be is top on the list at TGB, so it’s more than just an annually reviewed, externally benchmarked salary and bonus scheme that puts smiles on the faces of people that work here:
* Our hybrid working policy, means you’ll split your time working from home and at our state-of-the-art Eco Campus
* On site subsidised Café & Restaurant, gym & in-house Wellbeing Ambassador, all set within RHS Kew & the Surrey Wildlife curated landscaped gardens
* Access to attractive car schemes for you (& your family) for Toyota & Lexus cars
* 25 days annual leave (+ bank holidays), which increases with length of service
* Defined contribution pension scheme + the option to add Additional Voluntary Contributions
* Private Medical Insurance for you & your immediate family fully funded by TGB
* Death in Service at 10 x base salary & Income Protection
* Optional company funded health related benefits, including Dental Insurance HealthCare Cash Plan, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) & Flu Jabs all at no cost to you
* Extended flexible benefits package including; cycle-to-work scheme, eye tests, holiday trading and Sports & Social Club (accessing annual ski trips, football tournaments, arts & crafts, discounted tickets to events & shows plus a whole lot more!)
* Annual £150 Personal development allowance to learn new skills alongside an extensive Learning and Development offering.
* Long service recognition awards
* 2 volunteering days per year and various Corporate & Social Responsibility initiatives.
* Regular 121s with your manager, a personal development plan reviewed quarterly with a range of training & support (as per the TGB Management Deal)
* £1k to support your relocation, to within a commutable distance of our EcoHQ if you’re joining one of our Emerging Talent programmes
You want in? (you’ll find the detail in the job profile below)
To be considered for this role, the skills you’ll need to have include:
* Strong accountancy skills
* At least Intermediate Excel skills
* Proven project management skills having managed a variety of projects from planning to completion over varying length of deadline
* Excellent written and communication skills, with the ability to present, gain consensus and influence key stakeholders
* Motivated by change and innovation
* Passionate about customers & obsessed with delivering a service the way that customers LOVE!
* Residing in the UK and either living within or willing to relocate to within a commutable distance of our ECO HQ
We know we won’t have been able to cover everything in this advert. Have a look at the job profile for some extra detail and if you get through to the face to face interview stage of our process, then we’ll put aside some time to explain the role fully, holding time so you can ask any questions that you have.
You’ll be able to apply for this role through our dedicated careers site. We use Willo one-way video interviewing as part of our recruitment process. We’ll provide you with some more information around this as you progress through the stages.
Our TGB Community
TGB is committed to fostering a diverse & inclusive workplace where innovation thrives through diversity of thought. We believe in building a community culture that supports high performance by nurturing psychological safety, being mindful of barriers to inclusion, & encouraging allyship. We judge applications on merit, make no assumptions, & don’t discriminate against any protected characteristics. As a proud participant in the Disability Confident Scheme, we’re dedicated to creating an environment where everyone feels valued, supported and included.
If there’s anything outside of our standard recruitment process that we can do to enable you to be your best our door is open to have the conversation.