Senior Finance Manager

Senior Finance Manager East Sussex (Hybrid considered) £Competitive and negotiable + Benefits Are you an experienced Finance Manager looking for a broad, commercially focused role where you can genuinely influence business performance?

We're recruiting for a Senior Finance Manager to join a successful, growing manufacturing business. Reporting directly to the Financial Controller, you'll play a pivotal role in financial reporting, forecasting, business partnering and supporting strategic decision-making across a multi-company, multi-currency environment.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious qualified accountant who enjoys working closely with senior stakeholders and thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

The Role You'll take ownership of the finance function's month-end reporting while providing meaningful commercial insight to support business growth.

Key responsibilities include:

• Producing accurate monthly management accounts

• Leading quarterly forecasting and the annual budgeting process

• Managing multi-company, multi-currency consolidations

• Preparing and submitting VAT, Corporation Tax and payroll-related taxes

• Producing insightful board reports and financial presentations

• Analysing financial performance and explaining key variances

• Supporting year-end audit preparation

• Overseeing purchase ledger, sales ledger and cashbook functions

• Supporting payroll and pension administration

• Leading finance improvement projects alongside the Financial Controller What We're Looking For To be considered, you'll need:

• ACCA qualified

• 3-5 years' finance experience within a manufacturing environment

• Strong experience of multi-company and multi-currency consolidations

• A solid understanding of standard costing and manufacturing absorption accounting

• Sage Payroll and Sage HR experience

• Microsoft Dynamics AX (AX) experience

• Advanced Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, SUMIFs, INDEX/MATCH (or XLOOKUP equivalent), error handling and financial reporting

• Experience producing board-level financial reporting and commercial analysis You'll also be

• Highly organised with excellent planning skills

• Analytical with strong problem-solving ability

• Able to work accurately under tight deadlines

• Comfortable communicating financial information to senior stakeholders

• Ideally someone who trained within practice before moving into industry What's On Offer

• Salary of £80,000 - £90,000 + Benefits - negotiable

• A varied and commercially focused senior finance position

• High visibility across the business

• Opportunity to influence strategy and improve financial performance

• A supportive leadership team and genuine long-term career prospects If you're looking for your next challenge in a senior finance role where you can make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.