SUMMARY:
The Finance Manager will oversee day-to-day accounting operations across multiple group companies, ensuring all financial information is accurate, reconciled, and maintained to a high standard.
POSITION INFO:
Finance Manager
Join a Multi-Company Recruitment Group Supporting High-Volume Financial Operations
Remote or Hybrid (Cape Town) | Recruitment & Financial Services | R59 000 per month | UK Working Hours
About Our Client
Our client operates across multiple businesses within the recruitment and professional services sector, managing a large portfolio of entities with varying operational and financial requirements. The environment is detail-oriented, fast-paced, and highly collaborative, requiring strong oversight across multiple company accounts and financial processes.
This is an opportunity to join a business where accuracy, accountability, and commercial awareness are essential. The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining financial integrity across the group while supporting ongoing operational and reporting requirements.
The Role: Finance Manager
The Finance Manager will oversee day-to-day accounting operations across multiple group companies, ensuring all financial information is accurate, reconciled, and maintained to a high standard. The role requires someone who can confidently manage high volumes of transactions, maintain oversight across multiple entities, and proactively resolve issues as they arise.
The position involves full-cycle financial accounting responsibilities, including month-end processing, reconciliations, management accounts, intercompany accounting, and quarterly reporting. The successful candidate will work extensively on Sage 50 and will be expected to manage multiple financial cycles and year-end processes confidently.
Key Responsibilities
- 8–10+ years’ experience managing full financial accounting functions across multiple entities with annual turnovers ranging from £1m–£20m per annum
- Manage day-to-day accounting activities across all group companies, ensuring financial accuracy and compliance
- Process and review supplier invoices, ensuring correct coding and allocation within Sage 50
- Manage supplier payments, creditor reconciliations, and aged creditors
- Raise and process intercompany recharge invoices and management fee invoices
- Review nominal ledgers and prepare correcting journals where required
- Post monthly payroll journals, depreciation, accruals, prepayments, and other month-end journals
- Prepare and reconcile balance sheet accounts, including bank, VAT, PAYE, pensions, fixed assets, accruals, and invoice finance
- Prepare monthly management accounts and departmental profitability reporting across multiple client companies
- Complete intergroup reconciliations across all group entities
- Prepare quarterly accounts, including profit and loss statements and balance sheets
- Assist with VAT return preparation and financial workbook reporting against budgets and prior year performance
- Manage month-end close processes and accounting backups
- Handle ad hoc financial and administrative queries as they arise
About You
- 8–10+ years of financial accounting experience with exposure to multiple full financial year cycles and year-end processes
- Proven experience managing accounts for multiple companies or clients simultaneously
- Experience working with company turnovers ranging from approximately £1m–£20m annually
- Strong working knowledge of Sage 50
- Solid understanding of reconciliations, journals, accruals, prepayments, and management accounts
- Experience preparing departmental or multi-entity profitability reporting
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to maintain oversight across large volumes of financial information
- Comfortable working independently in a remote environment while managing competing priorities
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
- Confident communicator with the ability to manage financial queries effectively
- Available to work Monday to Friday, 08:00–17:00 UK time
