Finance Specialist

4 months ago


Lincoln, United Kingdom Let Alliance Full time

**The Role**:
As a Finance Specialist at Barbon Group, you will play a crucial role in one of our largest businesses. You will be responsible for independently leading finance operations, ensuring accurate and timely completion of day-to-day tasks while identifying opportunities for process improvement. Reporting to the Credit Control & Finance Administration Manager, you will collaborate closely with team members from both the finance department and across the organisation.

This role presents a temporary opportunity that may lead to a permanent position.

**Responsibilities**:

- Serve as the main finance contact for one of Barbon's largest businesses
- Work in close partnership with team members to ensure accurate completion of tasks
- Perform monthly duties including invoicing, commission calculations and payments, preparing Sage imports, bank reconciliations, DD submissions, and allocations
- Collaborate with the MI team to ensure data accuracy and reliability
- Analyse monthly variances and address internal and external queries
- Map end-to-end processes, recommend improvements, and document them
- Challenge existing workflows, driving efficiency and cost savings
- Liaise with finance functions at both local and Group levels as needed
- Prepare ad-hoc reports and conduct analysis as required

**Experience**:

- Proficient in day-to-day finance duties such as invoicing and month-end activities.
- Demonstrated ability to understand performance metrics and explain variances to plan.
- Experience in process improvement, identifying opportunities to streamline workflows.
- Comfortable working with large and complex data sets.
- Proficient in bank reconciliations.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel.
- Familiarity with using Sage software.

**Skills and Attitude**:

- Highly analytical with meticulous attention to detail.
- Ability to thrive under tight reporting deadlines and stay focused on key objectives.
- Skilled in analysing workflows and driving process improvements.
- Ability to effectively manage multiple stakeholders, including senior management.
- Strong collaboration and coordination abilities across different business units.
- An ambitious, self-motivated individual who takes ownership and performs effectively under pressure.
- Adaptable and comfortable navigating through ambiguous situations and adapting to rapid changes.
- Demonstrates a high level of resilience in overcoming challenges.
- Proactively embraces a collaborative approach to problem-solving.

**Further information**

**As well as a competitive salary we offer the following benefits** -- Competitive holiday allowance with the annual option to buy additional days
- Death in Service benefit of x4 salary
- Company pension scheme
- Very generous maternity and paternity leave packages
- A flexible benefits package which allows you to add additional benefits to your overall package
- Our benefits portal offers discounts on technology & electronics, cinemas, restaurants, days out, mortgage advice, travel and many more
- Referral schemes
- Discounted rates on PIB products
- We offer a first-class employee benefits and welfare package to support our employees with financial management, cycle to work scheme, counselling support, health screening, will writing, menopause support, books, stopping smoking and much more
- We also offer a wide range of discounts including a kids pass - giving you discount to over 4500 attractions and activities, discounts at hairdressers and beauticians, climate change projects with lots of other options to choose
- PIB has a comprehensive learning & development framework, including professional study options and apprenticeships which are available to all employees, and which will support your career development

PIB Group are committed to improving their environmental impact in a responsible way. From the individual actions that our colleagues take every day through to installing the right facilities across our premises, there are many measures in place to help reduce PIB's carbon footprint.

We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

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