Senior Finance Manager – Business Partners and Accounting (Maternity Cover)
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Senior Finance Manager – Business Partners and Accounting (Maternity Cover)
15‑month fixed term contract
Mountain Warehouse is looking for an experienced Senior Finance Manager to lead our Business Partnering and Accounting team during a maternity cover period. This is a high‑impact role at the heart of our Finance function, combining commercial insight, financial control and leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading the month‑end close and reporting cycle for the Accounting team, ensuring accurate, timely results.
- Producing and presenting high‑quality financial reporting, including the executive summary for the Board Pack.
- Driving improvements in financial MI, reporting quality, and the Faster Close initiative.
- Oversee Business Partners contribution to budgeting and forecasting cycles, ensuring high‑quality inputs and robust documentation of assumptions.
- Reviewing and challenging business cases, tenders, and scenario analyses.
- Ensuring robust balance sheet governance and technical accounting across the team, including lease accounting, impairment and dilapidations provision.
- Managing audit deliverables and supporting technical audit areas.
- Leading, coaching, and developing a team of 10 Business Partners and Accountants.
- Managing recruitment, onboarding, and future resourcing needs.
- Championing systems, data quality, and process improvement.
We would like to meet someone who is
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and experience leading a large finance team.
- Proven experience working closely with senior stakeholders, building credibility, and influencing decisions through high‑quality business partnering.
- A proactive, improvement‑focused mindset and the ability to drive change.
- A collaborative leadership style that builds capability, supports development, and drives high performance.