Finance Manager

Financial Reporting & Close

• Apply US and UK GAAP expertise to financial transactions and business decisions.
• Lead and execute timely and accurate month-end close activities, including journal entries, accruals, reserves, reconciliations, and account analysis.
• Prepare monthly reporting packages, providing clear insights and explanations of financial results, risks, and opportunities.
• Maintain balance sheet integrity through monthly reconciliation and review processes.
• Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, internal policies, and financial controls.
• Support annual statutory audits and coordinate audit deliverables, schedules, and auditor requests.
• Support the Research and Development Project teams with project accounting, ensuring proper capture and timing of revenue and cost recognition.

Manufacturing Finance & Cost Accounting

• Own financial accounting for inventory, including inventory reconciliations, physical count coordination, variance analysis, and reporting.
• Analyze standard versus actual manufacturing costs and provide actionable recommendations to improve operational performance.
• Support product costing activities, bill of materials accuracy, and job routings and setup.
• Evaluate operational and manufacturing performance through financial and operational KPI analysis.
• Partner with operations and engineering teams to assess the financial impact of process, product, and manufacturing changes.

Fixed Assets & Capital Management

• Manage the full lifecycle of fixed assets, including acquisitions, capitalization, depreciation, disposals, and reconciliations.
• Support capital expenditure planning and tracking.
• Ensure compliance with internal capitalization policies and controls.

Business Partnering & Decision Support

• Act as a trusted finance partner to operations, engineering, and support functions.
• Provide financial analysis and recommendations to support strategic and operational decision making.
• Support annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and periodic financial planning processes.
• Monitor margins, operational metrics, and cost performance, identifying opportunities for improvement.

Process Improvement & Controls

• Drive process optimization, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives across finance and operational processes.
• Partner with finance, operations, and IT teams to improve system functionality, reporting, and scalability.
• Support the development and enhancement of internal controls, policies, and procedures.
• Apply structured problem-solving techniques to improve accuracy, efficiency, and business outcomes.

Team Leadership & Other

• Provide leadership, coaching, and development support to finance team members as required.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and process excellence.
• Serve as a finance leader across the UK site and broader global finance organization.
• Continuous development through training of self and others.
• Assist with other finance and accounting duties, as directed