Finance Manager

Finance Manager – St Austell – Permanent 💼 Salary: £40,000 – £45,000 + Benefits 📍 Location: St Austell, Cornwall 🕒 Hours: Full time 📅 Start: ASAP Are you an experienced transactional finance professional looking for a role where you can lead, influence and drive high-quality financial operations? Our client, a successful and fast-growing organisation, is seeking a Finance Manager to oversee all day-to-day financial processing activities while managing a team of approximately 5–6 people. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with strong AP, AR, cash management and compliance experience who thrives in a fast-paced, detail-driven environment. You will play a key part in safeguarding cash, maintaining robust controls, and ensuring accurate, timely processing across the group. What You’ll Be Doing ✔ Overseeing supplier onboarding, invoice processing, approvals and weekly payment runs ✔ Ensuring AP ledger accuracy including reconciliations, aged payables and debit balance clearance ✔ Leading customer onboarding, credit checks, billing, disputes and collections activity ✔ Driving AR performance including DSO reduction, dunning cycles, and credit management ✔ Managing daily cash positioning, multi-currency bank reconciliations and payment file preparation ✔ Maintaining bank mandates, user access and segregation of duties ✔ Processing FX transactions, reconciliations, month-end revaluations and supporting hedge management ✔ Managing card receipts, chargebacks, direct debit runs and online payment gateways ✔ Overseeing intercompany recharges, settlements and documentation ✔ Supporting Payroll Manager with cross-cover when required ✔ Embedding and maintaining a strong financial control framework ✔ Ensuring UK VAT compliance, correct coding and support with returns and reconciliations ✔ Supporting internal/external audits with samples, narratives and remediation activities ✔ Delivering accurate month-end close packs including AP accruals, GRNI, AR cut-off and cash recs ✔ Owning and maintaining department policies, SOPs and GDPR-compliant data management ✔ Leading the operation of finance systems (Sage, Paperless and others) ✔ Driving automation and reducing manual journal reliance ✔ Leading, coaching and developing a high-performing transactional finance team (5–6 people) ✔ Working cross-functionally to ensure compliance, accuracy and problem prevention ✔ Developing and reporting on transactional finance KPIs to drive performance What We’re Looking For 💡 Proven experience within financial processing and transactional finance 💡 Experience managing and developing a transactional finance team (ideally 5–6 staff) 💡 Strong knowledge across AP, AR/credit control, cash management and payments 💡 Experience with FX processing, reconciliations and financial controls 💡 Solid understanding of VAT, tax compliance and UK regulatory frameworks 💡 Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail 💡 Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment 💡 High levels of professionalism, integrity and discretion 💡 Strong communication and stakeholder management skills Why You’ll Love This Role ✔ £40,000 – £45,000 salary ✔ Company pension ✔ Free parking ✔ On-site parking ✔ Opportunity to lead and shape a key finance function ✔ High degree of autonomy and influence over process improvement ✔ Varied workload across AP, AR, cash, FX and controls ✔ Supportive environment with a focus on continuous improvement ✔ Scope for long-term progression within finance leadership 📩 Apply now for a confidential conversation about this Finance Manager opportunity in St Austell. Carrington Wood is a specialist recruitment consultancy supporting organisations across Cornwall, Devon, and the wider South West. We recruit across Finance, Accounting, HR, Administration, Customer Service and Business Support on both a temporary and permanent basis