Interim Finance Manager (12-Month Fixed Term Contract) / Knutsford / £50,000 - £60,000
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Accountable Recruitment have exclusively partnered with our client who are a successful and growing privately owned business based in Knutsford. We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Interim Finance Manager to support their finance function covering maternity leave. This role offers the opportunity to enhance financial insight across the organisation, and play a critical part in delivering high-quality management information to senior leadership.
This is a hands-on, commercially focused finance position requiring good technical capability, excellent communication skills, and the ability to bring clarity and structure to a growing multi-division business.
Key Responsibilities
* Management Accounts & Reporting - review monthly management accounts ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to timelines.
* Oversee balance sheet reconciliations and maintain strong financial controls across all entities.
* Prepare and deliver the monthly management pack for senior leadership, including narrative commercial commentary and variance analysis.
* Commercial Analysis & Business Insight - Produce detailed commercial and divisional analysis, highlighting performance trends and actionable insights.
* Partner with division heads to provide financial support, challenge, and commercial analysis.
* Develop and track KPIs across each business unit to support decision-making.
* Support budgeting and forecasting cycles, ensuring assumptions are robust and aligned to business strategy.
* Audit & Year-End Support - act as the key finance contact for external auditors during the year-end process. Coordinate audit deliverables, resolve queries promptly, and ensure a smooth and timely audit process.
* You will work closely with the Finance Director on an upcoming transaction, assisting with due diligence materials, and ad-hoc insights required throughout the process.
* Lead, support, and mentor 1 direct reprot to ensure high-quality output
Key skills
* Proven experience ideally working within a similar broad hands-on role for a growing SME business
* Background in management accounting, month-end close, and financial reporting.
* Strong communicator with the ability to build relationships across non-finance stakeholders.
* Demonstrable commercial awareness, with the ability to analyse divisional performance and present clear insights.
* Excellent Excel and data analysis skills. xxuwjjq
Further Details
* Duration: 12 months
* Start: ASAP / within 4 weeks notice
* Working Pattern: Full time office based role, flexible working pattern / start and finish times available.
* Location: Knutsford
To discuss this role in more detail please contact Lauren Harrison from Accountable Recruitment on