Top Finance Jobs in Manchester

The role involves providing technical leadership for AI and automation, designing scalable solutions, and ensuring project delivery aligns with business goals and enterprise standards.

Provide financial partnering for operating expenses: produce monthly management accounts, variance analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. Challenge budget holders, identify cost risks/opportunities, maintain controls and reconciliations, collaborate cross-functionally, and improve finance processes and reporting tools.

The Executive Partner advises CFOs on talent and workforce challenges, conducts consultations, develops strategies, and maintains member relationships to ensure success.

Partner with International Online and Logistics teams to provide commercial finance support: reporting, forecasting, P&L management, financial modelling, analysis of sales, margin, logistics and inventory, build business cases, and improve processes and automation to drive profitable growth and operational efficiencies.

Lead and build a standalone Transactional Finance function (AP/AR, vendor management, bank and balance sheet reconciliations) for Bally's Intralot B2C. Drive digital transformation and automation (including agentic AI), ensure SOX-grade controls, manage audits, partner with Treasury/Procurement, and hire and develop the team while maintaining high accuracy and service across high-volume, multi-currency operations.

Manage end-to-end client billing within the Invoice to Cash team: raise invoices in Sage Intacct, handle legal billing, respond to billing queries, support credit control, manage Zendesk tickets, assist audits and continuous improvement, and provide training and ad-hoc finance support to colleagues and leadership.

Support Funeralcare Finance Administration by checking, compiling and preparing refunds for At Need clients; investigate and resolve complex finance queries; manage high volumes of transactional data using Excel; maintain accurate records, meet SLAs, and contribute to process improvements within a collaborative team.

Partner with Group and BU finance, operations and commercial teams to analyse and report on group-wide projects. Build business cases, standard reports, templates and forecasts to support decision-making and ensure initiatives are embedded into budgets and financial plans.

Lead the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance functional deployment across Europe: design finance processes, own fit-gap, configuration, testing (SIT/UAT), manage integrators, ensure SOX/compliance, support cutover/go-live and post-go-live improvements.

Serve as lead finance business partner for EMEA commercial teams, driving forecasting, pricing governance, profitability analysis, marketing ROI, and commercial decision support. Lead a team of analysts, influence senior stakeholders, and support AOP, contract pricing, and business-case investment evaluations to drive revenue and margin growth.

The Senior Financial Analyst will deliver financial analyses, prepare complex reports, manage budgets, forecast expenses, and coach junior analysts to improve financial performance.

Manage consortium services, oversee data sharing compliance under global chemical regulations, and provide guidance on industry requirements. Communicate with colleagues, clients, and regulatory authorities.

The Managing Director will lead client engagements, provide strategic advisory services in accounting, and drive business development while mentoring team members.

Lead origination, structuring and execution of complex senior debt transactions for mid-market Manufacturing, Industrials & Defence clients across the UK. Manage full deal lifecycle, build sponsor, corporate and adviser relationships, deliver income growth and risk-adjusted returns, and provide internal leadership and mentorship to grow the Strategic Finance franchise.

Lead central overhead forecasting, provide financial analysis and insight, partner with stakeholders to control costs, support decision-making, and drive continuous improvement across the business unit.

Advise clients on project finance and business case development for Net Zero and decarbonisation programmes. Develop procurement and funding strategies, assess business challenges, propose optimal solutions, tailor established tools, and support client adoption. Lead multi‑disciplinary teams, ensure delivery quality, grow client relationships, and contribute to business development and knowledge sharing. Flexible travel required.

Lead project finance and business case advisory for Net Zero and decarbonisation programmes, advising on funding, procurement and delivery models, developing optimal solutions, presenting to clients, supporting business generation, and contributing to capability development across multi-disciplinary teams.

The role involves leading Environmental and Social Impact Assessments, advising clients on international standards, managing multidisciplinary teams, and driving business development.

Lead the Change & Controls team to strengthen governance, risk management and operational controls. Partner with senior Finance, Risk and Internal Audit, develop the Material Control Framework, influence executive decision-making, drive process improvements, and line-manage a small team to embed sustainable control enhancements.

Support project managers with project financial management, revenue recognition, forecasting, WIP monitoring, timesheet oversight, ERP/Excel support, and stakeholder liaison to ensure accurate project accounting and cash collection.

Provide expert legal advice on complex banking transactions (corporate lending, leveraged and real estate finance); draft and negotiate principal finance documents; manage transactions, supervise junior lawyers, build client relationships and support business development across national and international matters.

Lead technical accounting and reporting for store closure costs, improve financial models and reporting, maintain accounting principles for adjusting items, provide technical accounting support, and manage/coach a direct report to strengthen controls, governance and continuous improvement.

Provide administrative finance support for depot operations including daily cost reporting, weekly payroll processing, invoice coding, stock and fuel administration, compliance documentation, absence management, onboarding, fleet and driver documentation checks, and local operational audits. Work with regional finance, fleet, payroll and HR teams and provide cross-cover within the finance admin network.

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.

Lead controllership transformation and financial close automation engagements: diagnose current state, design future-state operating models, select and implement close/EPM platforms, optimise close processes, embed controls and automation, manage vendor relationships, and build client relationships at CFO/controller level while growing the practice and mentoring teams.