Finance Manager

Finance Manager

📍 West Midlands | 📊 Manufacturing Environment

Are you a hands-on Finance Manager who thrives in a manufacturing setting and enjoys improving systems as much as producing numbers?

We're recruiting for a Finance Manager to support a West Midlands-based manufacturing site within an international packaging group. This is a broad, commercially focused role where you'll play a key part in strengthening financial control while supporting a major IT and systems transformation.

This opportunity would suit someone who enjoys working in an evolving environment and wants to shape both finance processes and business systems during a period of change.

The Role

Financial Management & Reporting

• Manage site-level finance operations including ledgers, month-end journals and management accounts
• Prepare monthly reporting and trial balances for Group submission
• Produce accurate accruals, prepayments and cost allocations
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts including fixed assets
• Support budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis

Systems Implementation & Data Integrity

• Support implementation of new business and finance systems (including Sage 200)
• Map product and transactional data into new systems
• Audit and align product codes, BOMs and sales invoice data
• Support data migration and integration of operational and finance processes
• Work closely with internal and external project teams

Commercial & Operational Support

• Partner with operations to understand production flows and cost drivers
• Strengthen receipting and purchase order matching processes
• Provide commercially relevant insight to site leadership
• Improve costing accuracy across production processes

What We're Looking For

Essential

• Qualified by experience or part-qualified (ACCA/CIMA)
• Experience in a manufacturing environment
• Strong knowledge of BOM and production costing
• Experience producing management accounts
• Comfortable working with legacy systems and improving processes
• Intermediate Excel skills

Desirable

• Experience supporting system changeovers or ERP implementation
• Sage 200 exposure
• Project or change management experience

Why Apply?

• High-impact role during a major systems transformation
• Broad exposure across finance and operations
• Opportunity to shape processes and build a future team
• Manufacturing environment with ESG-driven commitments