Finance Manager

LMH Engineering are looking for a hands on Finance Manager to take ownership of our finance function as we grow. **About the role** This is a genuinely hands\-on position. You will lead our bookkeeping team, but you will also be working directly in the accounts yourself: completing and reviewing reconciliations, running month\-end, resolving accounting issues and making sure the underlying numbers are right. You will also take financial ownership of our MRP/ERP system. It runs separately from our accounts package and sits at the heart of job costing, so a big part of this role is making sure the information flowing between our operational and accounting systems is accurate and properly controlled. **What you will be doing** Running the finance function * Day\-to\-day ownership of finance and accounting * Managing, supervising and developing our bookkeeping team * Overseeing accounts payable and accounts receivable Getting the numbers right * Owning the accuracy and integrity of the general ledger * Completing and reviewing bank, balance sheet and control account reconciliations * Reviewing debtors, creditors, accruals, prepayments and other balance sheet items * Investigating discrepancies and seeing them through to resolution Month\-end and reporting * Owning the month\-end close and delivering accurate accounts on time * Preparing monthly management accounts and supporting schedules * Cash\-flow reporting and short\-term cash forecasting * Supporting budgeting, forecasting and senior management and board reporting Compliance and controls * Making sure VAT, payroll\-related and other statutory obligations are met correctly and on time * Preparing year\-end schedules and liaising with external auditors/accountants * Strengthening financial controls and processes as the business scales MRP and job costing * Taking financial ownership of the MRP system, especially job costing * Monitoring and reconciling the MRP against the accounting system, and resolving differences * Working with the operations team so jobs and costs are captured correctly * Improving processes and controls across both systems as volume and complexity grow **What LMH are looking for** * Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) * Strong technical accounting and month\-end experience * A track record of working hands\-on in an accounts function, close to the underlying numbers * Comfortable managing bookkeepers while getting stuck into reconciliations, journals and accounting issues yourself * Strong systems skills and experience working across separate operational/MRP and accounting systems * An understanding of job costing, ideally from manufacturing, engineering, project\-based or similar environments * Commercial awareness combined with sharp attention to detail * Someone who takes ownership of problems and fixes them, not just flags them * The drive to bring structure, controls and discipline to a growing finance function