Finance Manager

**Finance Manager**
- 'Recruiting for your future success’_

Our client is a data protection compliance consultancy formed in the UK in 2017. They provide outsourced Data Protection Officers, privacy consultancy services and GDPR representation to over 600 organisations globally. The company has hubs in London, Dublinand The Netherlands, together with a network of representation offices throughout the 27 EU Member States.

First and foremost, our client is a service business who look only to work with proactive, motivated, enthusiastic, customer driven, commercially aware team players, who can clearly demonstrate a passion for what they do and therefore offer an ideal fitwith the company’s core values, mission and culture. Due to growth, they are actively seeking a **Finance Manager**to join their team in Ipswich (offering hybrid working).

**Learning & Development Coordinator (Data Protection)**

**£40k Per Annum** | Mon-Fri 9-5:30 | Ipswich/Hyrid Working | Great Benefits Offered | Data Protection | Collaborative/One Team Environment | Value Driven, Growing Organisation | Finance Management Role in Industry | Financial Reporting/CreditControl/Purchase Ledger/Invoicing Management

As Finance Manager, you will be carrying out a wide range of tasks for finance and client services, so excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required. The role involves working with systems such as Xero, Scoro, Hubspot, and Trello, to namebut a few.

**Duties (include but are not limited to)**:

- Carrying out regular financial reports, both on systems and spreadsheets
- Close monitoring of the company’s financial invoicing system to ensure all invoices are accurate and sent in a timely manner
- Responding to and resolving any client invoicing issues
- Responding to and resolving any queries from our UK or European accountants
- Regular monitoring of the company’s financial credit control and taking appropriate action where required
- Creating end-of-month deferral reports
- Analysing the P&L to ensure accuracy of postings
- Review the P&L against budget
- Managing the Purchase Ledger and arranging for payment runs to suppliers to be made
- Supporting analysis of time management system data (Workflowmax/Scoro)
- Management of PO process
- Providing cover for other office staff roles during absence and holidays
- Support with general administrate tasks to support the office

**Person Specification**:

- A degree level qualification, however experience in a finance/accounting role is more valued than qualifications
- An enthusiastic 'people person’ and team player
- A willingness to learn, work hard, contribute to the team and develop new skills
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
- Ability to be able to handle multiple ongoing tasks with various deadlines and priority levels
- Highly organised, structured, disciplined with exceptional attention to detail
- The ability to work under pressure and prioritise multiple activities
- Exceptional time management skills to manage your time and meet deadlines
- Excellent written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills
- The confidence to propose new and improved processes and effect positive change
- Working knowledge of Xero and other accounting software programme

LIGHTHOUSE PERSONNEL LTD ARE A RECRUITMENT AGENCY WORKING ON BEHALF OF A CLIENT.

PLEASE NOTE WE RECEIVE A LARGE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS PER VACANCY AND UNFORTUNATELY CANNOT RESPOND TO ALL APPLICANTS. THEREFORE, IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD FROM US WITHIN A MONTH FROM APPLICATION DATE, IT IS LIKELY THAT YOU HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL.

If you have been successful, we will contact you by the phone and begin taking you through our step by step recruitment process, doing our utmost to ensure the role is right for you, ascertaining your suitability in the process. This process will all beexplained on initial contact.