Finance Operations Manager

Robertson Bell are recruiting for a Finance Operations Manager on behalf of a large and complex organisation.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced transactional finance professional to take strategic and operational responsibility for a busy finance function covering income, payments, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. Managing a team of up to 10, you will play a key role in strengthening financial controls, improving processes and ensuring the effective management of cash across a complex group structure.

The Role

Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will lead the day-to-day operation of the transactional finance function, with responsibility for:

• Managing and developing a team of up to 10 across Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.
• Overseeing high-volume supplier payments, including BACS, CHAPS and manual payments.
• Ensuring supplier invoices, expenses, credit cards and other payment transactions are processed accurately and on time.
• Overseeing income processing, invoicing and credit control, ensuring income is collected promptly.
• Supporting cash flow management across multiple entities.
• Maintaining strong financial controls, reconciliations and compliance across the Group.
• Ensuring inter-company balances are reconciled and resolved in a timely manner.
• Supporting month-end and year-end processes, ensuring all deadlines are consistently met.
• Monitoring team performance against KPIs and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Designing and delivering training to support the development of the team.
• Building strong relationships with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Deputising for the Financial Controller when required.

This is a role with a genuine strategic improvement focus, where you will be expected to analyse performance, identify opportunities to improve processes and help develop a high-performing transactional finance function.

About You

The successful candidate will have:

• Strong experience working within an Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable or wider transactional finance function.
• Experience using a large finance system within a complex or high-volume organisation.
• Proven experience managing, developing and training a finance team.
• Experience setting, monitoring and achieving team KPIs.
• Strong Excel skills and the ability to analyse financial information effectively.
• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to explain financial information to both finance and non-finance colleagues.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities in a busy environment.
• A proactive approach to problem solving, process improvement and risk management.
• Strong customer and stakeholder management skills.

You do not need to be a fully qualified accountant for this role. The organisation is particularly interested in candidates with strong practical transactional finance management experience, although AAT or equivalent accountancy study would be advantageous.

What's on Offer?

• Up too £55,000 salary
• Hybrid working
• Responsibility for a team of up to 10.
• A varied role combining operational leadership with genuine strategic influence.
• The opportunity to improve processes, controls and performance across a complex finance function.
• Exposure to cash management, income, payments and multiple entities.
• The opportunity to work closely with the Financial Controller and deputise when required.

If you're an experienced transactional finance professional looking for a role where you can lead a team, improve processes and make a genuine impact, we'd love to hear from you.