Top Finance Manager Jobs in Manchester

Manages operational finance for AECOM’s UK&I Buildings & Places business, partnering with leadership on reporting, planning, forecasting, financial performance, bids, project accounting, revenue recognition, working capital, billing, risk, controls, and audits. The role analyzes financial trends, supports business planning, ensures SOX compliance, and may manage and mentor project finance and accounting staff.

Finance Manager partnering with Data & AI, Loyalty, Financial Services, and customer leadership teams. Responsibilities include budgeting, forecasting, investment appraisal, business-case review, financial reporting, governance, risk management, and strategic commercial analysis. The role provides financial challenge and insight to support transformation programmes, improve performance, and ensure major investments deliver measurable value.

Owns monthly close, management accounts, commercial finance partnering, forecasting, cash flow, debtor management, revenue recognition, and multi-entity consolidation across UK, US, Holdings, and EU entities. The role supports pricing, profitability, margin improvement, budgeting, and Board reporting while leading a Finance Assistant and strengthening financial controls and processes.

Provides financial leadership across major utility infrastructure contracts, managing project accounting, reporting, P&L performance, revenue recovery, financial controls, reconciliations, audits, and commercial compliance. The role identifies risks and opportunities, supports operational and commercial stakeholders, drives process improvements, and leads a finance team. It requires a qualified accountant with project-based industry experience, strong ERP and Excel skills, and expertise in financial reporting and regulatory requirements.

Manage finance governance for Co-op’s expanding Product Team model. The role develops repeatable mobilisation processes, coordinates Finance, SPA, and Product teams, tracks readiness and risks, and maintains effective financial, asset, audit, and reporting controls. Responsibilities include cost allocation, capitalisation, asset accounting, audit evidence, financial data quality, and transferring finance ownership to Business Finance Partners. The manager will also provide challenge and support to Product Leads and Delivery Managers in an agile environment.

Develop and manage broker and introducer relationships to generate new bridging finance business. Responsibilities include managing the full sales pipeline, conducting outbound phone and email activity, issuing terms, securing commitments, improving conversion rates, coordinating with underwriting, legal, and operations, driving repeat business, and contributing to sales strategy, process improvement, and training.

Manages the full lifecycle of Impact Finance & Markets agreements, including intake, drafting, review, negotiation, approvals, execution, amendments, tracking, deliverables, and close-out. Advises staff on contractual requirements, compliance, risks, and process improvements while coordinating with Legal, Finance, Purchasing, Information Security, and Records Management. Maintains records and delegation-of-authority documentation, supports awards management, develops guidance and training, and improves contracting workflows, systems, and reporting.

Manage global client finance and accounting operations across EMEA, including transactional processing, vendor payments, monthly management accounts, variance analysis, budgeting, tax and statutory compliance, and corporate reporting. Lead and develop the client accounting team, oversee financial controls, support account mobilization and transitions, manage client and vendor relationships, and provide accurate financial information to stakeholders. The role also involves financial modeling, process improvement, and occasional travel.

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.

Leads cross-functional analytical projects and owns a finance operations domain. Responsibilities include defining business metrics, investigating performance drivers, evaluating sales and marketing funnels, managing external specialists, automating finance workflows, and improving operational and compliance processes. The role requires strong quantitative reasoning, systems thinking, vendor management, organizational skills, and the ability to learn accounting or other specialized domains quickly.

Supports commercial teams through financial analysis, KPI reporting, forecasting, scenario modeling, profitability analysis, pricing support, business cases, and long-term planning. Partners with Sales, Marketing, and Product Development to evaluate growth initiatives, communicate financial insights, improve margins, and guide sound commercial decisions. Leads annual operating plans and forecast updates while building cross-functional relationships and presenting performance trends, risks, and recommended mitigations.

Manage qualified and junior accountants, oversee management accounts, tax returns, financial reporting, reconciliations, variance analysis, and IFRS-compliant accounts. Lead risk and control improvements, finance automation, AI initiatives, and cross-functional business projects. Support audits, stakeholder management, internal policies, accounting memos, and compliance documentation while partnering with senior leaders and external tax advisors.

Own finance operations for UK and Irish entities, including bookkeeping, payables, receivables, reconciliations, payroll, month-end close, management accounts, budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow management, and statutory support. The role also improves finance systems, controls, documentation, automation, and reporting while providing commercially useful analysis to support company decision-making in a fast-growing health-tech startup.

Own a financial product vertical end-to-end, including strategy, metrics, roadmap, technical design, delivery, and launch. Partner with engineering on APIs, data flows, ledgering, reliability, security, scalability, and failure handling. Embed regulatory requirements across KYC, monitoring, limits, privacy, and licensing. Apply AI and LLMs with evaluation, safeguards, oversight, and reliability controls while aligning compliance, operations, treasury, finance, design, and engineering.

Owns an AI-focused finance product vertical from strategy through launch, including outcomes, metrics, prioritization, technical design, money movement correctness, reliability, compliance, and AI evaluation. Partners with engineering, design, compliance, operations, treasury, and finance to manage regulatory gates, trade-offs, failure handling, and trusted user experiences. Requires strong technical product leadership, system design knowledge, regulated-domain experience, and hands-on familiarity with LLM-based products.

As a Project Finance Manager, you will manage financial aspects, ensure accounting accuracy, communicate with stakeholders, and advise the project team on financial laws.

Own AI Finance product areas across insurance, payments, savings, investing, travel, and other financial services. Define user problems, product scope, metrics, roadmaps, and launch plans; collaborate with engineering, design, data, compliance, operations, and business teams; simplify complex financial workflows; launch features; monitor performance; and drive continuous iteration using data, research, feedback, and production insights.

Own AI Finance product areas across insurance, payments, savings, investing, travel, and other financial services. Define product strategy, user problems, roadmaps, metrics, and launch plans; collaborate with engineering, design, data, compliance, operations, and business teams; simplify complex financial journeys; launch features; monitor performance; and drive continuous improvement through data, research, feedback, and experimentation.

Lead end-to-end Oracle finance transformations as the finance solution and integration architect. Own Oracle Cloud ERP Financials and EPM design (EPBCS, FCCS, EDMCS), set standards, manage programmes and senior stakeholders, grow accounts, and embed AI-augmented delivery across implementation, testing and deployment.

The Business Development Manager will develop new business in Invoice Finance by managing existing relationships and sourcing new opportunities, supporting clients throughout the sales process.