Recruiter

Blue Octopus Recruitment Ltd

Salary

From £10,000 to £150,000 per year + Competitive Salary plus Benefits

Location

Swinton

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Our client is a division of a focused international company providing outsourcing solutions and value-added distribution.

They have a proven track record of end-to-end Supply Chain Management and experience in distributing over 15,000 product lines to the retail market.

They now have an opportunity available for a Sales Ledger Supervisor to join them to manage all accounts under your remit, actively calling customers via telephone-e-mail or fax to collect overdue payments to ensure minimum disruption to cash collection and debt write off to the business.

Managing the invoice consolidation process, you will seek and set appropriate credit limits for customers from reports with credit insurer and receive and process daily cash / cheques / Bacs payments and prepare for banking each day. Ensuring receipts are correctly allocated to the appropriate account and against the appropriate invoice as soon as they are received to ensure the sales ledger is a correct reflection of the sales accounts; solving account queries and enquiries from customers and providing information to customers to aid payment of accounts.

Candidates for this role must have previous sales ledger experience coupled with excellent time management, problem solving and people management skills. With a strong level of computer literacy, you will have excellent telephone skills and be able to deal with customers in a calm and efficient manner.

This is a Blue Octopus Recruitment Ltd vacancy who are operating as an employment agency. Once you have clicked to apply for this vacancy, we will then send you more information on the role including a copy of the application form via email.

Recruiter

Experis

Salary

From £27,000 to £34,000 per year

Location

Manchester

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

My client is a leading financial technology company currently on fresh and exciting journey that will see them become an even greater force within their field. Full of opportunity and potential. In short, this is a brilliant time to join

Currently looking to hire Senior level Credit Analysts into a fast growing team.

The Role

To assess the initial and ongoing creditworthiness of the clients merchant acquiring facilities, ensuring the risk of loss to the client is minimised, whilst providing excellent customer service to the clients business.

Key Accountabilities

* Undertake timely credit risk information gathers, with emphasis on quality information being received recorded and understood
Significant financial acumen to enable confident discussion regarding financial statements and relevant non-financial information with customers.
* Where applicable, the ability to exercise an individual Credit Authority and/or formulate appropriate recommendations, with reference to the client policies to obtain sanction from the appropriate sanctioning authority.
* Where material deteriorating concerns are identified, or a loss to client is considered likely, undertake necessary actions to minimise potential loss and/or raise provision as appropriate and as necessary liaise with Insolvency Practitioners/Professional Advisors/Collection Agencies.
* To be able to communicate decisions / rationale in a clear and concise manner.
* To demonstrate commitment to the wider success of the credit team through team orientated skills and behaviours.
* Continuously evaluate efficiency/effectiveness and assist with implementation of new processes which lead to service improvement.
* Ensure that all systems/ databases are maintained accurately at all times, for management information reporting.
* Offer team leader/management assistance to team members

Skills & Experience

Experience of non-personal credit risk assessment practices, or similar experience in an external environment.

Ability to communicate at all levels both internally and externally.

Commercially aware of the impact of economic factors on credit risk.

Ability to interpret financial accounts to determine the creditworthiness of a business

Ideally prior team leader/manager level experience supporting between 3-6 members

Recruiter

Watson Moore

Salary

From £60,000 to £65,000 per year + bonus and benefits

Location

Lancashire

Qualifications

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

My client is a Greater Manchester based, Private Equity backed, high growth business having achieved double digit growth over each of the last three years. This growth is forecast to continue over the coming years both organically and via acquisition with revenues expected to exceed the £100m mark in the near future.

Reporting into the Finance Director and managing a wider team of 28 with 4 direct reports the individual will be responsible for the management accounts team, ledgers team, invoicing team, credit control and payroll teams. This is a broad role and represents a fantastic opportunity for the successful candidate to join a rapidly growing business.

Key Responsibilities:

Management of the production of flash reports, management accounts, board reports, bank covenant reports within agreed time scales.
Ensuring that internal financial controls are fit for purpose and adequate to support a rapidly growing business.
Managing and motivating a team 4 direct reports on a daily basis.
Production of statutory accounts with the external accountants and management of the yearend Audit process within the tight timescales required by our investors for all group companies.
Production of tax calculations in conjunction with the external accountants.
Responsibility for all internal compliance.
Production of budget holders monthly reports, identifying areas for savings.
Cashflow forecasting and 12 monthly covenant projections.
Ongoing VAT compliance ensuring that the business is correctly accounting for VAT.
Responsibility for the credit control function ensuring that aged debt is collected on a timely basis.
Involvement in companywide business change projects led by the business transformation team.
Working with the Commercial Finance team during forecasting exercises and analysis of month end gross profit.
Management of Invoicing and WIP to ensure that the business is correctly accounting and providing for its revenue.
Involvement in preparation of shareholder presentations.
This is a fast moving business and the successful candidate will need to remain flexible and be willing to get involved in ad hoc projects as they arise. This may include assessing and incorporating acquisitions or the roll out of IT systems.
Company secretarial maintenance.

Key attributes

We are looking for a motivated self starter, who will retain ownership of any issues and look to develop the existing systems and processes.
Strong technical ability is essential and must encompass financial reporting, VAT and taxation.
Candidates must also possess the gravitas to communicate effectively at all levels within the business and to be able to clearly explain financial subject matter to a non-financial audience.
As the company is growing so quickly, the successful candidate must be driven, ambitious and full of potential. We are not just looking for an excellent fit for this role now, but a future leader as well.

Recruiter

Blue Octopus Recruitment Ltd

Salary

From £10,000 to £20,000 per year + Competitive Salary

Location

Manchester

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Graduate Clinical Business Analyst (Business Marketing) BLUG6978
Manchester / Shrewsbury
Competitive Salary – 6 Month Contract Initially

Our Client is not only the largest but the leading provider of residential childcare, education and fostering services for children and young people. They provide breakthrough care and education pathways for young people, enabling them to achieve a better future. Their range of services enables Looked After Children to gain the skills and confidence to progress from specialist residential homes to family placements, such as fostering or independent living.

They currently have an exciting opportunity for an outstanding and ambitions Graduate Clinical Business Analyst to assist the Clinical and Service Development Director in developing and implementing an outstanding clinical, psychological and therapeutic model of care within their organisation.

Supporting the identification of key business trends and areas for improvement, you will assist the execution of new service developments for the national clinical model, along with helping with business intelligence queries and any ad hoc analysis as and when required. You will be a specialist in the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of information, contributing to the provision of a timely and quality service, ensuring effective planning and delivery of an outstanding clinical service offering. You must conduct frequent market research, developing tools to enable continuous improvement within the service and identify areas of improvement in line with the corporate aims of the business.

Candidates for this role will ideally be education to graduate level with a business or marketing perspective, however applications are welcome from any discipline. With the ability to present data and information, you will be experienced in analysing, manipulating and clarifying data from a range of sources coupled with demonstrating commercial awareness, showing strong project management skills. With excellent written and verbal communication skills and the aptitude to build and maintain good working relationships, you will have the capability to work under pressure, delivering to tight deadlines. This internship has the potential to progress to a permanent role.
The location for this role will predominately be Manchester; however there will be a necessity to work from Shrewsbury also, therefore the successful candidate must be prepared to work at either base.

This is a Blue Octopus Recruitment Ltd vacancy who are operating as an employment agency. Once you have clicked to apply for this vacancy, we will then send you more information on the role including a copy of the application form via email.

Recruiter

Robert Walters

Salary

From £43,000 to £48,000 per year

Location

Manchester

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Job summary:

The Group Finance Analyst is responsible for supporting the Group Finance Manager and is focused on the efficient production of analysis at Group level across Profit and Loss, Cashflow and Balance Sheet with exposure to M&A projects.

About the role:

Board Reporting

• Providing support in the production of the Group Finance Report and driving efficiencies in the excel modelling behind this work.

• Responsibility for the monthly reporting and forecasting of Balance Sheet, and Cashflow across division .

Financial Modelling
• First line responsibility for the calculation and accounting for the incentive schemes. Development of the excel model and presentation of this material, including scenario modelling.

• Creation, development and maintenance of market analytics and standing data to be used in Group presentations and in interpreting trends/analytics etc. This is with a view to greater data integrity and efficiency of production.

• Assisting the Group Finance Manager in driving the quarterly forecast (outturn) process through liaison with divisional finance teams and appropriate level of data collection and interpretation.

Business Planning

• Assist in producing effective Business Plans and Annual Budgets, including providing the appropriate levels of both challenge and support
 Provide Group and Business specific base data, reference points and context for long term strategic thinking and decision making

• Analyse and challenge Group business financials and assist in production of final Board reports.

• Generate, maintain and develop a Long-term Financial Forecasting and valutaion model for the Business that will provide the long term outlook for the business.

• Develop the linkage between / reflection of significant capital, property and commercial business cases and the capital, income and cost.

Working Capital Management and Balance Sheet Analysis

• Overview and maintenance of central provision schedules and feeding into the half year and full year statutory processes.

• Understanding, reporting and analysing Group wide Capex, including the development of a model to record data at an appropriate level for group reporting.


About the person:

o ACA/CIMA qualified accountant
o Excellent interpersonal, management & influencing skills. Can influence at all levels in the business in order to engage the co-operation of people who are not direct reports.
o Good project management experience and skills
o Able to motivate and develop team members
o Able to work to deadlines and manage priorities
o Good verbal and written communication skills
o Knowledge of seeking to instil a culture of continuous development and process improvement

o Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
o Good experience of working with and developing finance systems and of coaching staff in the use of these

Desirable:
o Experience of implementing new financial systems and of developing systems to improve efficiencies
o Knowledge of Oracle financials

One of the most high profile businesses in the north this company will provide a challenging & hard working environment but will also lets talented people flourish. This vacancy is due to an internal promotion.

If you would like to apply for the role of Group Finance Analyst or find out more, please apply online or contact Neil Rogerson at Robert Walters on [contact details removed] or call + [contact details removed] quoting the reference 1832740.