Finance Manager

Finance Manager
Barrow-in-Furness and Hybrid Working
Permanent, Full-time

Who We are
James Fisher Everard (JFE) operates a fleet of product tanker vessels along the European coastline and in the Caribbean islands, carrying grades such as petrol, diesel, kerosene and easy chemicals. As ship owners for more than 170 years, the company is part of the James Fisher Plc group’s Maritime Transport division providing maritime transportation of liquid products and high-quality ship management solutions. JFE fleet of tankers is managed in-house by James Fisher Shipping Services, which provides a high-quality technical and crewing management service.

About the role

As the Finance Manager for the Tankships Division within James Fisher & Sons Plc, you will be liaising with our stakeholders and offer support in all areas of financial management. This includes regulatory & financial reporting, budgeting & forecasting, cash flow & hedging management, development of internal controls, policies & procedures, and financial risk management. This is a great opportunity for a Senior Finance professional looking for a good work-life balance and who has a keen interest in team development.

The responsibilities of the Finance Manager include:

• Preparation & analysis of monthly financial statements and submission to Group finance, supporting month end and annual accounts close
• Preparation of monthly KPI’s and margin analysis
• Co-ordinate & prepare annual statutory accounts
• Prepare and submit annual Budgets and quarterly / monthly forecasts
• Prepare internal reports for the senior leadership team
• Co-ordinate preparation of tax analysis for P11D’s & PSA returns.
• Management all accounting operations involved in day to day finance department
• Provide robust financial analysis to new business opportunities, NPV, risk management
• Manage, develop & mentor management accountants and trainee management accountants
• Develop and risk assess all controls and procedures
• Drive improvements across all financial procedures and systems, encouraging efficiency savings
• Treasury function & cash management including processing of FX hedging, cash flow monitoring and compliance in domestic and global currency payment processing, Euro/USD and global currency
• Capex budget management and reporting
• Preparation of UK VAT returns quarterly and recovery of foreign vat
• Manage external and internal audit requirements
• Assistance with Group Tax Queries

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Previous experience in accounting at a senior level
• Chartered qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA/CIPFA)
• Experience in a commercial environment would be an advantage
• Able to business partner and build relationships with stakeholders both internally & externally
• Good experience in managing and developing teams.
• Systems & Software experience - Excel, Sage, Business Central, Opera, Jet reporting, Power BI and O365 suite.

Working for us

We offer a number of benefits including Group Personal Pension Scheme, Life Assurance, PMI and flexible working schemes.

James Fisher & Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and we strongly encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and as a Disability Confident employer we are committed to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.