Finance Manager

Finance Manager - Temp to Perm

Are you a commercially focussed Accountant looking for a role where you can use your strong analytical skills and commercial awareness to add value to a growing business?
Are you looking for a role offering flexible working and a fast paced, creative environment?
Are you able to start at short notice?

This role offers ownership of the numbers and influence on project profitability.
Hybrid working brings flexibility, with a four-day week also considered.

About the Opportunity

A high growth and creative small business based outside of Tunbridge Wells is seeking an Interim Finance Manager for a six-month appointment which is likely to be made permanent after the initial 6 months.

Working with a diverse client base, the business combines commercial ambition with a commitment to positive social and environmental impact.

The Role

The Interim Finance Manager will take responsibility for a standalone finance function, working closely with the Managing Director and client services team.
An experienced CFO provides strategic support rather than day-to-day supervision.

The remit combines accurate financial management with practical commercial advice: understanding project costs, protecting margins and helping colleagues make informed decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain Xero, including day-to-day transaction processing.
• Produce monthly management and board packs, with clear commentary and KPIs. Fathom is the current reporting tool.
• Manage cash flow, working capital, banking relationships, debtors and creditors.
• Oversee sales invoicing, approve weekly payment runs and coordinate outsourced payroll.
• Lead weekly finance forecast meetings and produce live-project status reports.
• Analyse profitability, utilisation, fee recovery and overservicing across clients, projects and services.
• Support project set-up, estimates, supplier purchase orders, pricing and commercial proposals.
• Work with external accountants on accurate, timely tax reporting and statutory accounts.
• Build colleagues' commercial understanding and improve systems and processes, including exploring appropriate uses of AI.

Essential Skills

• At least three years' hands-on experience in a similar finance role.
• An accounting qualification or demonstrable qualified-by-experience expertise.
• Strong working knowledge of Xero and advanced Excel skills.
• Commercial and financial planning and analysis skills, including budgeting, forecasting, scenario modelling and margin analysis.
• Confidence balancing independent, day-to-day delivery with commercial advice.
• Clear communication, a collaborative approach and the ability to meet deadlines under pressure.

Benefits

• Hybrid working, with two home-working days in the full-time pattern.
• 23 days annual leave, an additional Christmas shutdown and a birthday day off.
• Mentoring, training and a personal development plan.
• Private medical insurance and a pension scheme
• A charity support day, Friday bakery lunches and regular staff socials.
• On-site parking.

Why Apply?

The Interim Finance Manager will have the opportunity to influence how work is priced, delivered and measured-not simply report what has already happened.
As the appointment develops, there may also be scope for wider strategic involvement.