Finance Jobs in County Durham

Baltic Recruitment are currently recruiting for a Permanent Stock and Pricing Analyst to work for a highly reputable client based in Hartlepool . Reporting to the Regional Supply Chain Manager, the role entails taking the current stock & contract position against market price to evaluate the potential risk and opportunities click apply for full job details

Paraplanner - Wealth Management Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 per annum (dependent on experience) Location: Chester-le-Street (with occasional travel to other locations as required) Reports to: Practice Manager Direct reports: None About the Role Our client is seeking an experienced Paraplanner to join their established wealth management practice click apply for full job details

Are you a naturally curious Service Charge professional or housing specialist who enjoys getting out of the office? Join a leading national Housing Association in a varied role that combines analytical investigation with site visits, helping to ensure customers are charged fairly, accurately, and transparently click apply for full job details

Finance Manager Location: Durham Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent Salary: £40k base + Package About The Company Our client are a well-established construction contractor delivering high-quality projects across the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. Due to continued growth, they are seeking an experienced and highly organised Finance Manager to oversee our day-to-day financial operations and support the continued success of the business. The Role As Finance Manager, you will be responsible for managing the company's financial administration, ensuring accurate payroll processing, maintaining supplier payments, and supporting the financial health of the business. This is a hands-on role requiring excellent attention to detail, strong organisational skills, and experience within the construction industry. Key Responsibilities - Manage weekly and monthly payroll, ensuring employees and subcontractors are paid accurately and on time. - Process and authorise supplier invoices and payments. - Maintain purchase and sales ledgers. - Reconcile bank accounts and company credit cards. - Monitor cash flow and prepare regular financial reports. - Manage CIS deductions and submissions where applicable. - Prepare VAT returns and assist with year-end accounts. - Work closely with external accountants and auditors. - Ensure compliance with HMRC regulations and financial legislation. - Oversee credit control and manage customer payment collections. - Produce management accounts and provide financial insights to senior management. - Support budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning. - Maintain accurate financial records using accounting software. Requirements - Proven experience as a Finance Manager, Finance Officer, or Senior Bookkeeper. - Previous experience within the construction industry is highly desirable. - Strong knowledge of payroll, accounts payable, VAT, and CIS. - Experience using accounting software such as Sage, Xero, QuickBooks, or similar. - Excellent understanding of Microsoft Excel. - Strong organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail. - Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines. - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. - AAT qualified, part-qualified ACCA/CIMA, or equivalent is desirable but not essential. What They Offer - Competitive salary. - Company pension scheme. - Paid holidays. - Opportunities for professional development. - Supportive and friendly working environment. - Long-term career progression within a growing construction business.

- Establishing and leading the finance function for 2 growing SMEs - Benefits include bonus, pension, life assurance & shares scheme - Board level opportunity - North England based, across 2 sites Are you looking for an opportunity to take ownership of your own finance function within a manufacturing business? This Finance Director role can offer you that for not one, but two businesses. It s 2 small businesses (circa £1m and £3m turnover) that make highly specialised equipment, and they re looking for someone who can become part of their senior leadership teams and hold responsibility for all financial aspects of each company strategy. Both are growing, both are investing to support that growth, and they need your commercial insight to help make this happen. With products exported globally, you will be investigating, summarising, reporting on, and making recommendations on how to improve the businesses. You will be leading the finance teams (each has 1 FTE) and providing a high-quality service to all stakeholders. This would be a significant step forward for an experienced accountant looking to contribute to shaping a business's future strategy. Your time will be split between their two offices, so you ll ideally live in or around the North Pennines. You will report to the MD and be responsible for: - Ensuring company financial systems are robust, compliant as well as supporting future business growth. - Work closely with the Senior Management Team to strategize, analyse and manage, ensuring finance are involved in key business decisions. - Managing the company s accounting function including creation of financial reporting packs with analysis, statutory accounts and presenting annual accounts to the Board. - Leading financial forecasting processes. - Providing commercial finance support to the wider management teams, including things like margin analysis, pricing strategy, and reviewing stock provisioning policies. The Candidate: Finance Director You will be an experienced accountant who likes to take a hands-on approach to all company finance matters, and you ll also have the following: - Experienced in financial management within a manufacturing environment. - Fully Qualified ACCA / CIMA / ACA; - Leadership skills with the ability to influence at all levels; - Strategic thinker who is self-motivated and focused on continuous improvement.

Temporary Assistant Finance Manager - 3 Month Sickness Cover Are you an experienced finance professional with strong management accounting, reporting and reconciliation skills? Hays are currently recruiting for a temporary Assistant Finance Manager to support a busy finance function on an initial 3-month assignment covering sickness.This is an excellent opportunity for a confident and proactive finance professional who can quickly add value, support month-end activity, work closely with budget holders and contribute to continuous improvement within the management accounting and reporting function. The Role Reporting into the senior finance team, you will play a key role in supporting the preparation of monthly management information, reviewing financial performance, maintaining strong controls and providing clear financial insight to stakeholders across the organisation.Key ResponsibilitiesDuties will include, but not be limited to: - Assist in the preparation, review and commentary of the monthly management reporting pack, including variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior periods, highlighting key drivers, risks and trends. - Provide regular reporting to budget holders, engaging directly with stakeholders to ensure financial performance is clearly understood. - Actively support the Senior Finance Manager with system improvements and process enhancements across the management accounting and reporting function, including involvement in finance projects as required. - Lead on the processing of journals within the role's remit and manage month-end and year-end activities, including accruals and prepayments. - Prepare and review general ledger reconciliations, ensuring accuracy, completeness and compliance with internal controls. - Investigate and resolve reconciling items promptly, maintaining clear and accurate audit trails. - Produce management reports and ad-hoc analysis for internal stakeholders and funding bodies. - Assist with internal and external audits, liaising with auditors and providing supporting information where required. - Undertake additional finance projects, reporting tasks and ad-hoc duties as required. The successful candidate will ideally have: - Previous experience within management accounting, assistant finance management or a similar finance role. - Strong understanding of month-end processes, journals, accruals, prepayments and reconciliations. - Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial information and provide meaningful commentary. - Strong communication skills and confidence engaging with budget holders and non-finance stakeholders. - Good Excel skills and experience working with finance systems. - A proactive, organised and flexible approach, with the ability to work to deadlines and quickly adapt to a temporary assignment. What's on Offer - Temporary Assistant Finance Manager opportunity. - Initial 3-month assignment covering sickness. - Varied role covering management reporting, month-end, reconciliations, audit support and stakeholder engagement. - Opportunity to support process improvements and finance projects. - Hybrid working What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Why Join Greencore? Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, Greencore is one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we employ over 28,000 colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Our products span every meal occasion, and in FY25 our shared passion helped deliver combined revenues of approximately 4bn. Our extensive direct-to-store network ensures fresh and frozen food reaches thousands of stores every day. To support this scale, we are delivering a significant transformation through our Making Business Easier (MBE) programme, and this role is a key part of making that change land successfully. Role Purpose To provide financial analysis and insight to support stakeholders to drive action and improve future performance. Support the process for a robust budgeting and forecasting and lead multi-site improvement activities as required. Optimise financial performance with a particular focus on relevant key performance indicators within business specialisation. Key Accountabilities - Ensure financial reporting including weekly flash, weekly profit and loss, and month end close are completed accurately and within agreed timescales - Develop and communicate key performance indicators to monitor and drive positive change and expand understanding of cost or margin drivers - Ensure input into costings is accurate and within agreed timescales - Build cross functional relationships with key stakeholders - Support budget and quarterly forecasts, demonstrating an understanding of the key drivers, to inform strategic decision making - Identify, challenge, and proactively satisfy internal customer requirements to provide information, interpretation, and insight to the functional teams to promote effective delivery of commercial and operational performance - Continuously review business practices to make recommendations for changes which will enhance cost efficiency and business improvement - Preparation and monitoring of monthly reports and ensure queries are resolved in timely and effective manner - Validate and monitor excellence initiatives for monthly, quarterly, and yearly reporting - Provide ad hoc analysis and insight to aid interpretation and decision making What we're looking for - Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA), QBE or studying towards a qualification - Finance experience gained in manufacturing, logistics or similar industry - Excellent Microsoft Excel skills - Excellent interpersonal skills able to communicate to all levels of the business - Proactive, organised, and able to work flexibly to meet deadlines and have the drive to deliver results At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better. If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success. What you'll get in return - Competitive salary and job-related benefits - 25 days holiday - Competitive matched pension contributions - Company share save scheme - Greencore Qualifications - Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform - Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Head of Finance Head of Finance - Permanent RoleSalary: up to £57,729 per annumLocation: Derwentside College, Consett, DH8 5EEFull Time - Site Based Nigel Wright Group is delighted to be partnering with Derwentside College to recruit a Head of Finance, a key leadership role within a successful and ambitious Further Education provider.Derwentside College is a vibrant and inclusive Further Education college located in the heart of Consett, delivering a broad range of high quality provision to young people and adults from across the local community. In recent years, the College has made significant investment in its finance function including new financial reporting systems and stabilisation of the Team. These developments reflect our ambition to ensure financial stability that support growth, enhance the learner experience and support high quality teaching and support services. The Opportunity Reporting to the Vice Principal Finance and Resources, the Head of Finance will support in leading the College's finance function, ensuring the delivery of robust financial management, reporting, governance and compliance. The role combines strategic financial leadership with hands-on operational responsibility and will play a vital part in supporting the College's future success.Key responsibilities include: - Producing high-quality monthly management accounts and performance reporting. - Managing cash flow, financial controls, statutory returns and year-end accounts. - Leading the annual budgeting, forecasting and financial planning processes. - Leading external audit activity and supporting internal audit requirements. - Providing financial insight and challenge to senior leaders, budget holders and governors. - Overseeing financial systems, processes and continuous improvement initiatives. - Leading, developing and inspiring the finance team. About You We are seeking a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA) and strong team player/people manager. You will bring strong technical expertise across financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting and financial control, alongside the ability to build effective relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.The successful candidate will bring: - Strong management accounting and strategic planning capability. - Experience of managing cash flow, balance sheet reconciliations, and financial controls. - Experience of audit management, governance and risk management. - Excellent communication skills and collaborative nature. - A proactive approach to continuous improvement and team development with people management experience. - Experience within education, public sector or not-for-profit environments would be advantageous but is not essential. - Willingness to work on site Why Join Derwentside College? This is an opportunity to join a financially strong organisation with a clear strategic vision and genuine commitment to learner success. You'll work closely with senior leaders, influence key decisions, and play a pivotal role in supporting the College's ambitions for further growth and continued excellence. - 36 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays - College closure at 2pm Fridays and early closure during holiday periods - Christmas closure days - Automatic entry to the Local Government Pension Scheme - Flexible working - Annual staff celebration days - Continuous professional development - Free on-site parking - On-site catering - Salary sacrifice electric vehicle car leasing scheme