Top Finance Manager Jobs in Manchester

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.

Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning. Provide actionable reporting and commercial insight on revenue, margin, and costs using Excel and Power BI. Support pricing, client profitability, bids, post-project reviews, scenario modelling, and strategic initiatives while partnering with senior stakeholders to drive business performance.

Interim Finance Manager supporting management accounting, month-end and quarter-end close, balance sheet integrity, financial controls, bad debt provisions, analytical reviews, audits, and FCA reporting. The role also involves leading and developing a team of five, supporting the Financial Controller, and driving process improvements across finance operations.

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.

Lead month-end close, produce management accounts, budgeting/forecasting, cash and working capital management, financial controls, and ERP finance workstream. Provide commercial analysis, support audits, and manage a small finance team to improve processes and deliver accurate financial insight to senior stakeholders.

Lead the Business Accounting team delivering accurate, compliant month-end reporting, divisional P&Ls, accruals and controls. Drive standardisation and automation of Record-to-Report, manage stakeholder service levels, and develop team capability to improve financial reporting across multiple business units.

Lead month-end performance management and FP&A for international operations, owning forecasting, budgeting and long-range planning. Deliver P&L, working capital, capex and cashflow forecasting, improve Power BI reporting and data integrity, provide strategic financial analysis and business-case support, and lead and develop the FP&A team while partnering with senior leaders and Strategy/Group Finance.

Lead international FP&A activities including month-end performance management, forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, and cashflow modelling. Deliver insightful reporting and governance, enhance Power BI reporting and data integrity, support strategic analysis and business cases, and manage and develop a high-performing finance team.

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

Own an AI finance product vertical end-to-end, from strategy and roadmap through technical design, delivery, and launch. Partner with engineering on APIs, data flows, ledgering, reconciliation, reliability, security, and scalability. Embed regulatory requirements across KYC, monitoring, limits, privacy, and licensing. Apply AI with evaluation, safeguards, human oversight, and failure handling while coordinating engineering, design, compliance, operations, treasury, and finance.

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 financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, month-end and external audit processes. Deliver financial analysis, modelling and commercial insights, strengthen controls and systems, drive process improvements, monitor performance and support stakeholders to influence strategic decision-making and company-wide OKR reporting.

Manage, retain and grow a portfolio of SME invoice finance customers by originating and underwriting lending, overseeing upsizes and renewals, monitoring credit and covenants, writing credit papers, and collaborating with sales, credit and operations to deliver excellent service and target credit performance.

Drive new business by building and managing broker and introducer relationships via proactive outbound calls and emails. Oversee the sales pipeline, forecast deals, work with underwriting/legal/operations for smooth drawdowns, improve conversion rates, and contribute to sales strategy, process improvements, and training.

Build and manage relationships with used car dealers and brokers across a regional patch. Generate new partnerships, manage existing accounts, negotiate competitive motor finance terms, provide customer service, and achieve sales and efficiency targets. The role involves face-to-face dealer meetings, telephone and email negotiations, independent prioritization, presentations, regulatory awareness, and participation in team meetings.

Owns financial value measurement, benefits realization, avoidable demand tracking, and reporting for Customer Excellence initiatives. The role develops financial baselines, validates cost savings with customers, analyzes operational and financial data, and produces dashboards, executive summaries, and board-level reports. It partners with Customer Success, Managed Services, Product, Engineering, and customer stakeholders to translate operational improvements into measurable financial outcomes and support ROI, governance, and continuous improvement.

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.

Lead the Finance & Regulatory Data team, overseeing finance data strategy, governance, and analytics to support corporate finance and audits.

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 ATR GBS Coordinator oversees global close governance, drives standardization of month-end close processes, manages risks, and ensures compliance with accounting standards. Responsibilities include coordinating cross-functional activities, addressing issues, and enhancing R2R performance through stakeholder communication and project management.