About the role

  • Finance Operations Manager at Cornwall Insight ensuring smooth finance operations and compliance. Responsible for financial controls, processes improvement, and audit support across the business.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end finance operations cycle, including sales invoicing, purchase ledger, expenses and cash management, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and strong financial control
  • Maintain and continuously improve month-end processes, including balance sheet reconciliations, supporting documentation and adherence to close timelines
  • Ensure robust financial controls are in place across systems and processes, including banking, approvals and audit trails
  • Prepare and submit accurate VAT returns across all Group entities, maintaining up-to-date technical knowledge and compliance
  • Support the year-end audit process, acting as a key contact for auditors and ensuring timely, high-quality responses and documentation
  • Maintain and develop finance policies, procedures and documentation in line with internal standards and QMS requirements
  • Act as a business partner to teams across the organisation to improve financial processes, data quality and system usage (e.g. CRM and finance systems)
  • Support company secretarial requirements and ensure compliance with statutory filing obligations
  • Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce risk and enhance the quality of financial information across the business

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of finance operations, financial controls and month-end processes
  • High attention to detail with the ability to maintain accuracy under pressure
  • Well-organised with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines
  • Confident working independently in a hands-on role without direct reports
  • Strong systems mindset, with experience improving finance processes and workflows
  • Effective communicator, able to build relationships across finance and non-finance teams
  • Proactive approach to identifying risks, inefficiencies and improvement opportunities
  • Part-qualified (e.g. AAT, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent experience
  • Demonstrable experience in a similar finance operations or management role
  • Experience of working in a multi-entity or group structure (desirable)
  • Experience supporting audits and statutory compliance requirements

Benefits

  • Company bonus scheme
  • Private medical healthcare
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • 25 days holiday per annum, increasing by 1 day for each year of service up to 5 years
  • Annual wellbeing day
  • Annual volunteering day
  • Holiday purchase scheme
  • Perkbox discount scheme
  • Death in service benefit
  • Company sick pay
  • Parental leave pay
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • Monthly employee value awards

Job title

Finance Operations Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

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