Top Finance Jobs in Manchester

The Chief Finance Officer will lead financial strategy, stewardship, governance, budgeting, forecasting, treasury, risk and audit across a multi-school academy trust. The role advises the CEO and trustees, supports long-term planning and organisational growth, modernises financial systems, develops high-performing teams and ensures strong financial controls. The post is primarily based in Wilton, with travel across Wiltshire and Dorset and some home working.

Lead financial services transformation initiatives, deliver reporting, forecasting, and budgeting, and provide commercial financial guidance to stakeholders. Monitor performance, risks, and opportunities while ensuring compliance with internal controls, regulatory requirements, and audit standards. Partner with commercial, finance, digital, technology, and external teams, and support finance-team training and development across London and Manchester.

Senior SAP Finance functional specialist responsible for translating business requirements into SAP S/4HANA solutions, configuring FICO processes, overseeing design and deployment, supporting integrated testing, and improving end-to-end finance processes. The role provides business-as-usual support, stakeholder collaboration, process optimization, and functional oversight throughout a multi-year ERP transformation, implementation, upgrade, and support programme.

Lead controllership and financial close transformation engagements: diagnose current-state close processes, design improved reconciliation and task workflows, support FloQast/OneStream/Prophix implementations, manage workstreams and budgets, produce process documentation and training, and build strong client finance relationships to embed sustainable change.

The Finance Analyst supports billing systems, investigates data and process issues, performs bank and balance sheet reconciliations, assists with month-end accounting, and produces WIP, debtor, revenue, and billing reports. The role also supports budgeting, forecasting, management information, finance projects, reporting automation, and process improvements while maintaining accurate financial records and communicating with finance and non-finance colleagues.

Develop and support mission-critical finance systems, including bank ledgers and integrations. Design reliable, maintainable services, collaborate with accountants, treasurers, and internal stakeholders, and contribute throughout the project lifecycle. Engineers will work primarily with Java in a cloud-native environment using PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana, and CI/CD tooling. The role emphasizes transaction accuracy, financial process automation, system resilience, and solving complex technical problems.

Build and lead a new customer loyalty sales function within a financial services business. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing a high-performing telesales team, creating sales and retention strategies, maximizing opportunities within the existing customer base, setting targets, improving conversion and revenue, using performance data to optimize results, ensuring customer satisfaction, and maintaining regulatory compliance.

Finance Business Partner responsible for financial control, budgeting, forecasting, month-end reporting, financial modelling, investment appraisals, and executive-level financial insight. The role partners with functional leaders, challenges proposals, supports strategic planning, manages accounting requirements, collaborates with procurement, and ensures accurate data, reporting, and compliance. Candidates need a professional accountancy qualification and at least five years of relevant finance experience.

Produce financial reporting, analysis, reconciliations, budgeting and forecasting support for franchise stores. The role includes setting up new stores’ finance processes, supporting month-end activities, managing invoices and accruals, responding to audit queries, and presenting operational performance to internal teams and franchise partners. Strong collaboration, data analysis, accuracy and continuous improvement are essential.

Manage a high-volume portfolio of financial services litigation from pre-action through resolution, including pleadings, court documents, deadlines, settlements, possession claims, and security enforcement. Assess legal and commercial risk, provide recommendations, collaborate with internal stakeholders, and produce litigation reporting and trend analysis. The role also supports junior colleague supervision, quality assurance, process improvement, and adoption of legal technology and AI-enabled tools.

Lead sustainability initiatives for the Commercial and Institutional business, supporting climate transition and resilience tooling, especially the Climate Decisioning Framework. Develop customer transition-plan and climate-risk assessment methodologies, coordinate with technology and data partners, influence stakeholders, support implementation, and advise on climate-related training and capability building. This is a 12-month secondment with hybrid working.

Leads finance support for Group Procurement and the broader supply chain function across markets and business units. Responsibilities include sourcing and investment analysis, standard costing, variance analysis, forecasting, budgeting, inventory and cash performance, foreign exchange and freight analysis, governance, controls, and process improvement. The role partners with senior stakeholders, translates complex data into recommendations, and coaches a Supply Chain Finance Analyst.

Manage a high-volume portfolio of financial services litigation from pre-action through resolution, including pleadings, court documents, deadlines, settlements, possession claims, and enforcement matters. Prepare risk assessments, reporting, and trend analysis while supporting junior team supervision, quality assurance, stakeholder collaboration, process improvement, and legal technology implementation.

Manage a high-volume portfolio of customer litigation and security enforcement matters from pre-action through resolution. Draft pleadings, witness statements, applications, disclosure, and court correspondence; monitor deadlines; assess risks; support settlements and possession claims; and collaborate with internal stakeholders. The role also involves litigation reporting, trend analysis, process improvement, legal technology implementation, and supporting junior colleagues’ supervision, development, and quality assurance within a regulated financial services environment.

Leads quality assurance across Agile teams by owning test strategy, governance, planning, execution, reporting, defect management, UAT, and continuous improvement. Coordinates testing across feature teams and vendors, tracks quality metrics, validates non-functional requirements, manages incidents and root-cause analysis, and promotes automation and quality standards across the organization.

Finance Apprentice responsible for posting supplier bills and invoices in NetSuite, coding invoices, supporting accounts payable and receivable, completing basic reconciliations, responding to queries, and assisting with month-end tasks. The role provides hands-on finance experience while the apprentice works toward an AAT qualification.

Configure, design, test, migrate, integrate, and deploy Oracle Cloud ERP Finance solutions for large-scale client transformations. Own finance workstreams covering core modules, reporting, data conversion, integrations, extensions, and controls. Lead client design sessions, explain technical decisions, validate solution evidence, and support go-live. The role requires strong Record-to-Report knowledge, Oracle configuration expertise, clear communication, structured problem-solving, and mentoring of colleagues.

Provide advanced desktop and second-line technical support through phone, email, remote, and face-to-face channels. Resolve incidents, manage support queues and SLAs, maintain IT assets and access controls, and support onboarding and offboarding. Troubleshoot Windows, Microsoft 365, server, virtualization, mobile, and Apple technologies. Mentor colleagues, create documentation, contribute to technology deployments and IT projects, perform root-cause analysis, and support ITIL change and service improvement processes.

Supports budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, data analysis, controls, governance, business partnering, and finance-related transformation projects. The role is part of an accelerated development programme for recent graduates, offering client-facing consultancy experience and professional development in finance. Candidates need a strong finance-related degree or equivalent experience, Excel skills, analytical ability, and willingness to work onsite five days per week.

Owns and leads the University's Finance systems, overseeing Oracle or SAP functionality, enhancements, configuration, releases, integrations, data integrity, testing, documentation, and support. The role develops functional roadmaps, improves finance processes, manages defects and service levels, advises stakeholders, and coordinates with managed service providers. It also manages a small team, provides training and knowledge transfer, supports governance, and deputises for the Head of Core Systems Optimisation.

Provides post-award financial administration for externally funded research grants, including budget monitoring, claims, reporting, forecasting, project closure, KPI tracking, and audit preparation. The role supports academic colleagues, ensures compliance with funder requirements, resolves financial issues, liaises with funders, builds stakeholder relationships, and contributes to process improvement and consistent service delivery across the research grants portfolio.

Manage a project finance team supporting project setup, forecasting, billing, reporting, revenue recognition, and closeout. Partner with project managers and business leaders to improve working capital, cash collection, forecasting accuracy, and financial performance. Review P&L results, support business planning, provide management insights, identify risks, and ensure compliance with finance policies and IFRS. Develop direct reports and drive continuous improvement across finance operations.

The Finance Specialist supports budgeting, forecasting, fund allocation, accounting, financial reporting, donor reporting, reconciliations, journal entries, and financial data maintenance for global conservation programs. The role prepares analyses and reports, identifies coding or variance issues, supports audits and close processes, maintains grant and award records, and advises program teams on financial policies, donor restrictions, and reporting requirements.

Partners with stakeholders to provide financial insights, manage cost-centre reporting, deliver forecasts, track budgets, and improve cost efficiency. The role analyzes financial data, communicates performance narratives to leadership, advises on business decisions, improves reporting processes, and identifies opportunities to increase profitability. It requires a qualified accountant with strong analytical, collaboration, influencing, forecasting, and AI-literacy skills.

Supervises Accounts Receivable and Collections operations, overseeing delinquent account recovery, cash application, reconciliations, disputes, and month-end close support. Monitors DSO, aging, delinquency, and cash collection metrics while ensuring SLA, quality, control, and audit compliance. Leads, coaches, and develops team members, manages performance, resolves escalations, partners with internal stakeholders, and drives process improvements.