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Warrington Collegiate Education Trust

Salary

From £46,796 to £46,796 per year

Location

Warrington, Warrington

Qualifications

ACA, ACCA or CIMA

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS & FINANCE

Hours: 37 hours per week
Ref No: J25/13
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 13 May 2013
Interview date: 20 May 2013

Warrington Collegiate Education Trust is a newly opened multi academy trust with ambitious growth plans. The Trust sponsors the recently converted William Beamont Collegiate Academy and The Department of Education have also approved plans to open The Future Tech Studio in September 2014.

The trust requires a Director of Business & Finance to ensure effective financial management and development of the trust to achieve its growth plans.

You will be educated to degree level, be a qualified member of a recognised accountancy body eg. ACA, ACCA or CIMA and have a proven record of success in a senior financial management role including strategic and operational management. You will be highly commercial with strong influencing and stakeholder management skills.

Please see the College Website www.warrington.ac.uk to download the job description, accompanying documents and to apply online

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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Optionis

Salary

From £36,000 to £46,000 per year + excellent benefits package

Location

Warrington, Manchester, Liverpool

Qualifications

Qualified Accountant ACA

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Finance Manager

Warrington

About us; Optionis (incorporating Parasol, ClearSky Accounting, ClearSky HR and Silverline) are one of the leading employment outsource providers in the UK and we got here through hard work, dedication, innovation and a compulsion to deliver the very highest level of service. Our vision is to become an international workforce and SME support business. Our values are pioneering and progressive, do what’s right, not what’s easy, and raring to go.

The role; We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic Finance Manager to join our busy finance team at our head office in Warrington. The Finance Manager will lead the Financial Planning and Analysis team within the group finance function providing budgets, analysis, M&A and strategic project support.

Key Responsibilities:
• Leading the consolidated group budgeting and forecasting processes - P&L, B/S & Cash flow; providing variance analysis throughout the year.
• Delivering varied commercial financial analysis, support projects, initiatives and senior managers right across the business.
• Specifically an important point of contact for the sales and marketing teams; providing real support to this key and demanding area of the business.
• Providing M&A support, including due diligence & integration of businesses post acquisition.
• Providing finance support for business systems implementations.
• Project support to evolution of business processes due to industry legislative changes.
• Providing support to other strategic projects and initiatives.
• Delivery of KPIs on a daily, weekly, monthly and ad hoc basis.
• Supporting group statutory accounts preparation and company secretarial issues (although it will remain primarily under the responsibility of the reporting team).
• Supervision and development of a team of accounts staff.
• Ad hoc duties as required.

We are looking for a Finance Manager with the following skills and experience;
• Qualified Accountant ACA.
• Experience of M&A desirable but not essential.
• Must have commercial experience, preparing management accounts, budgets & business support.
• Strong and experienced people manager.
• An eye for detail, accuracy and presentation is essential.
• As is the ability to review decisions, analysis and demonstrate critical thinking in the bigger picture.
• Experience of influencing and communicating effectively with senior managers, directors and advisor's.
• Ability to make and be accountable for decisions.
• Capable of working with and developing operational financial models.
• A positive outlook with a can-do attitude, willing to embrace change, new challenges & strive for continuous improvement will be essential to succeed in the role.
• Ability to see a project through from beginning to end with a tenacious approach.
• Ability to work to and meet tight, often changing or conflicting deadlines.
• Experience in a high growth, fast paced, continuously challenging dynamic environment.
• A real team player.
If this sounds like your thing and you tick all of the boxes in the person specification then we’d love to hear from you. If your experience and skills are what we’re looking for we’ll get in touch to invite you along to an interview.

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Your Housing Group

Salary

From £38,245 to £42,283 per year

Location

Warrington, Manchester, Cheshire

Qualifications

ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Finance Manager – Financial Planning

Your Housing Group is one of the UK's largest social housing providers with over 32,000 homes across the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands. As well as a wide range of homes for social and affordable rent, Your Housing Group also provides homes for sale and shared ownership as well as Extra Care housing, sheltered and supported accommodation for older people and young adults. Our mission is "transforming your lives and your communities" and we do this by providing the people who live in our communities with a wide range of guidance and support services.

As Finance Manager you will be responsible for maintaining the long term financial plans of the Group in support of the Business Strategy. In addition, the role will assist the Head of Financial Planning and Dev Finance with the financial appraisal and risk assessment of new business. Our Growth Programme is developing 1,500 new Homes across the North of England and regenerating and transforming communities.

You will have a level of strategic responsibility for the management and delivery of their functional area to ensure this is delivered in line with the Groups visions, values and business objectives. You will be expected to work together with colleagues to ensure that Finance delivers its commitments to delivering accessible, proactive, customer focussed financial services that add value to our customers and ensure that the assets of the Group are safeguarded.

It is essential that you are a fully qualified member of a recognised accounting body ie ACA, ACCA, CIMA,CIPFA and have extensive experience of long term financial planning and Capital appraisals in the not for profit sector and are able to make sound judgements which balance commercial realities and mange risk.

You will need to have excellent excel and modelling skills and are able to demonstrate excellent communication skills and successful relation building at both external and with staff from all areas of the business.

The ideal candidate will have a demonstrable track record of providing financial reporting in a registered provider of social housing. Knowledge of Brixx software and the latest Accounting Standard and applications to the housing sections would be desirable.



Closing date: 1st June 2013
Interview Date: TBC

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities.

Finance Manager - Financial Planning

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Your Housing Group

Salary

From £38,245 to £42,283 per year

Location

Manchester, Cheshire, Warrington

Qualifications

ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Finance Manager - Treasury

Your Housing Group is one of the UK's largest social housing providers with over 32,000 homes across the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands. As well as a wide range of homes for social and affordable rent, Your Housing Group also provides homes for sale and shared ownership as well as Extra Care housing, sheltered and supported accommodation for older people and young adults. Our mission is "transforming your lives and your communities" and we do this by providing the people who live in our communities with a wide range of guidance and support services.

As Finance Manager you will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Treasury Department, including cash flow management, placing investments and raising private finance. The Finance Manager – Treasury will work in partnership to provide support to the Head of Treasury, other Finance team colleagues so as to ensure the Finance Department provides a quality and timely service, which meets efficiency and manages the Groups cash flows.

It is essential that you are either part or a fully qualified member of a recognised accounting body, ie ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA with a strong track record in providing financial support in a social housing sector organisation. You must be able to make sound judgements which balance commercial realities and manage risk together with experience of developing and delivering treasury reporting.

You will have extensive experience of developing and maintaining short and long term cash flow forecasts and managing complex banking relationships.

The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of providing financial support in a housing sector organisation, together with experience in securitisation of property and monitoring loan covenant compliance. Member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers would be an advantage.

You must also have excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to successfully build relationships externally and with staff from other areas of the business.

Closing date: 1st June 2013
Interview Date: TBC

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities.

Finance Manager - Treasury

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The Moorcroft Group

Salary

Competitive + Competitive

Location

Warrington

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Part time

We are looking for self-motivated individuals who want to earn money on a part time weekly basis and be part of one of the UK’s leading collections companies; we have over 1.5 million accounts on our database.

This part time role will involve you visiting customers at their home addresses to advise and negotiate on a repayment plan or settlement of their accounts. This will include being responsible for processing payments with your clients.

No experience is needed. All you need is good communication & organisational skills with a professional appearance. This is an exciting part time position giving you the chance to earn extra money and there is no limit to what you can earn, the more you collect the more you earn.

If you have your own transport, phone, computer and broadband & want to earn extra money on a part time basis then click on the apply button now.

(ATTENTION: Please do not apply for this role if you do not have a full driving licence car or motorbike, computer, broadband and smart phone)

Please apply directly to us, quoting 'Workthing' in the vacancy reference field