Area Finance Manager

• Specialist/senior professional in a job area with extensive relevant, job-based experience
• Focuses on policy and business plan implementation for short-term results (1 year or less)
• May set goals and objectives for team members for the achievement of operational/Job Family Group results
• Manages projects and processes that are moderately complex with little oversight

• Ensure accurate and proper financial accounting with periodic checks, scrutiny and reconciliation of the general ledger, sub-ledgers, fixed asset register, balance sheet schedules and related records.
• Monitor and update actual product prices and stock revaluations, maintaining product price lists.
• Support business operations with information, analytics, balance sheets, forecasts and budgets.
• Resolve difficult issues.
• Evaluate, recommend and implement adequate internal control with regard to functions managed and drive overall process improvement.
• Review monthly Financial reporting and reviews summary aging reports on a monthly basis ensuring timely issue resolution.
• Reporting, analysis and communication of financial and operational data for decision-making and strategic planning along with ensuring data and system integrity.

 Qualifications

• University DegreeProfessional accounting qualification e.g. CIMA / ACCA

Behaviors: (How we would like you to operate in this role)

• We drive ourselves to acquire and maintain a well-developed network, understanding our marketplace, competitors and industry trends
• We create, maintain and share robust Account Plans, ensuring that we are competitively positioned to take advantage of opportunities when they arise
• We use our commercial acumen to qualify our opportunities robustly, identifying where we can win and where we cannot
• We create, maintain and share robust Sales Opportunity plans, ensuring we know what needs to be achieved to win both new and repeat business.

• We take personal responsibility to acquire and maintain the knowledge we need to understand how our resources, products and services bring value to our customers
• We have a deep understanding of our processes:  Knowing who and where to go to when we need help to get things done.  We share this knowledge freely with our colleagues
• We take the time to prepare for all our customer interactions by conducting thorough research into their organization, their business environment and their people
• We know how to deploy our resources (time, people, money) in an effective and efficient manner, both in the interest of the customer and our wider business

• Our colleagues, customers and partners’ safety is our first thought at all times
• We make every effort to ensure that our customers and colleagues needs, and expectations are being met.  We communicate clearly and honestly, and we value both theirs and our time
• Whenever possible we use our collective knowledge and resources, but we hold ourselves accountable for the achievement of our sales targets and objectives
• We lead from the front, accept responsibility and value the opinions of others.  Our ambition is to attain the status of trusted advisor, both in the eyes of our customers and our colleagues

• We challenge ourselves.  Actively seeking feedback from our colleagues and customers to understand how and where we can improve
• We aspire to best practice, leveraging our internal and external networks to inform our thoughts, decisions and actions
• We take control of our future by planning and developing a sales pipeline of closable opportunities that enable us to forecast our future business accurately
• We are inquisitive about our customers’ real needs enabling us to provide the best solutions for today and tomorrow, whilst negotiating win/win outcomes for them and us.

• Safety & Environment embraces and promotes a positive safety & environmental culture; recognizes and acts to correct unsafe operating procedures and ensures environmental compliance. 
• Effectiveness (Income, Cost, and Resources utilization) impact is seen through the contribution that the team they work in makes on the overall performance of the business through the decisions they take. 
• Quality (Reliable, collegiate, high standards) contributions, have less of an immediate impact, but which over time make a meaningful difference to the performance of the organization. (Sustained performance through effective use of time and resource) Role is performed in a manner that allows the individual to make smart decisions on where they put their effort.