Job Role: Finance Manager
Salary: DOE
Location: Derbyshire
Type: Full Time / Permanent
Overview
Everest People Solutions is seeking an experienced Finance Manager to join the accounts team of an award-winning catering butcher in Derbyshire. The company, established for over 100 years, supplies meat across the East Midlands and beyond to a variety of clients, including hotels, restaurants, pubs, hospitals, universities, and food services. As the Finance Manager, you will lead and manage the company's finance department, overseeing all aspects and ensuring smooth financial operations.
Key Duties & Responsibilities for the Finance Manager
· Lead the Finance team, deputising for business-critical tasks.
· Provide succession cover for the Finance Administrator.
· Oversee the Purchase Ledger duties.
· Ensure consolidation of invoices with delivery notes.
· Obtain signatures for all invoices to be paid.
· Manage livestock pricing and statement checks against purchase invoices.
· Input PL invoices onto SAGE and manage supplier payments.
· Maintain the SAGE 200 system, including creating new nominal codes.
· Support in producing management accounts for the company and the holding company.
· Prepare accruals, prepayments, reconciling, and posting journals.
· Calculate retrospective rebates for appropriate customers.
· Reconcile and submit VAT returns.
· Produce KPI data.
· Oversee payroll duties with full responsibility.
· Manage payroll functions, ensuring legal compliance.
· Maintain modifications for tax, social security, and other benefits on the payroll system.
· Perform year-end payroll duties.
· Provide legally required payroll information to external bodies.
· Manage the company’s pension scheme and its deductions.
· Keep accurate records of all documentation.
· Collect monies and outstanding debt in line with the company’s credit terms.
· Maintain a full audit trail of credit control.
· Provide payment information to customers.
· Ensure the sales ledger reflects correct sales accounts.
· Allocate sales ledger cash receipts to accounts correctly and timely.
· Complete trade references and assess risk on new and existing customers.
· Manage legal aspects of debt collection as required.
· Handle monthly, weekly, and cash on delivery accounts.
· Reconcile bank and credit cards.
· Cash up all monies into the company.
· Support the Food Safety Manager with traceability documentation.
· Complete government statistical surveys.
Requirements for the Quality Manager
The successful candidate will have a keen eye for detail, a proactive approach, and a professional demeanour. They will be flexible, accurate, confident, and able to anticipate concerns with a solution-oriented mindset. The ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines is essential.
· Knowledge of Sage 200.
· Strong numeracy and literacy skills.
· Intermediate understanding of Excel.
· Essential knowledge of Purchase Ledger and Sales Ledger.
· Experience in managing a finance team and similar roles is essential