23 jobs in Four Recruitment

Four Recruitment is looking for a Finance Operations Lead based in Preston, United Kingdom. This role involves overseeing management accounting and finance processes while ensuring high-quality financial reporting and effective financial controls.

The successful candidate will lead finance operations, collaborate with various teams on budget forecasts, and drive profit improvement initiatives. Applicants should have prior experience in management and be qualified in finance, ready to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

This role is responsible for leading and developing the management accounts team, ensuring high quality financial reporting, strong financial controls, and efficient end to end finance pro-cesses across the organisation. The role will oversee, management accounting and transactional finance, process improvement initiatives, driving operational excellence and supporting the Group Financial Controller in delivering a robust financial control environment.

• Lead all finance operations activity, including management accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank reconciliations, and cash management.
• Own the month end timetable, ensuring accurate, timely and well controlled reporting across all entities
• Oversee working capital management, ensuring effective cashflow forecasting, debtor re-covery, supplier payment cycles, stock controls and bank management.
• Lead the production of consolidated monthly management accounts, ensuring outputs are accurate, insightful, and aligned to business needs
• Collaborating with departmental heads and the wider finance team to develop and manage budgets and forecasts.
• Provide high level P&L and cashflow commentary to senior management on financial per-formance, proactively identifying and delivering profit improvement initiatives across the business.
• Driving an effective financial control environment, with high quality reconciliations and pro-cesses.
• Assisting the Finance Accounting Manager and Group Financial Controller with ad-hoc analysis and projects as required.
• Analysing the P&L and cashflow variances against budget and forecast, ensuring effective communication of the results and the commercial points/actions.
• Analyse, report and control of consumable stocks.
• Improving the balance sheet reconciliation process to enable best in class reporting, and analysis of EBITDA to cash.
• Support the Finance team and business with ad hoc projects as required.

You will ideally be qualified with experience of managing teams, being responsible for month end reporting in a fast paced environment.

This is a senior, delivery-led role within our clients Corporate Services function, focused on servicing global clients with international footprints. The Finance Business Partner – Global Solution Specialist owns a defined portfolio of clients and is accountable for hands‑on delivery, technical quality, client experience, and commercial outcomes against agreed KPIs.

The role operates within the Corporate Services POD model as a senior technical contributor, working closely with Global Account Managers, Sales, Accounts Administrators, and outsourced providers to deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes for clients.

• Own and manage a defined portfolio of clients.
• Act as the senior technical and delivery lead for assigned clients
• Governance, meetings, and actions are executed consistently
• Upsell and expansion opportunities are identified and progressed
• Build and maintain trusted, senior client relationships through clear communication and confident technical judgement.

• Personally deliver and review complex technical accounting outputs across the portfolio.
• Lead on judgement‑based accounting matters for clients.
• Prepare and/or review statutory accounts (FRS 102 / FRS 105)
• Management accounts and reconciliations
• Journals and supporting schedules
• Deliver UK compliance obligations including:
• VAT returns
• Corporation Tax returns (CT600)
• Provide UK accounting expertise within multi‑country and multi‑entity client structures.
• Continuously improve and innovate processes, procedures, data, and systems
• Support Sales and Business Development in:
• Building accounting and corporate services solutions for new clients
• Contributing to proposals, scoping, and onboarding design
• Provide technical input into solution design for complex, multi‑country engagements.
• Act as a senior technical presence in early‑stage client discussions where required.

• Operate as a key delivery member within the Corporate Services POD.
• Work with PAs and outsourced providers to ensure work is delivered accurately, on time, and to the companies quality and CX standards.
• Review outsourced outputs for assigned clients and elevate delivery or quality issues where required.
• Coordinate delivery activity with the Corporate Services POD Leader once appointed.
• Work with the Director of Corporate Services to develop client strategies and identify commercial opportunities, agreeing a strategic development plan for each client in terms of product and service enhancements.

• Act as a senior technical reference point for other junior accountants and outsourced personnel within Corporate Services.
• Provide day‑to‑day direction, oversight, and mentorship of UK‑based Accounts Administrators working on the assigned client portfolio, ensuring deliverables meet Briars' technical and CX standards.
• Provide guidance and support on complex accounting matters as required.
• This support is technical and advisory only and does not include:
• Line management
• Performance management
• Objective setting
• Progression or development ownership

• Confident client‑facing communicator with strong commercial awareness.
• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Minimum 3 years post‑qualified experience in a 360‑degree client‑facing role, retaining a hands‑on delivery approach.
• Strong technical capability across UK GAAP, VAT, Corporation Tax, and statutory compliance.
• Experience working with multi‑entity and multi‑country client structures.
• Confident client‑facing communicator with strong commercial awareness.
• Experience with Xero, CCH, Caseware, ASANA, and Claude (or comparable AI tools) is desirable.

This role would suit someone who is either a first or second time mover from practice, ideally a mid‑tier firm or a technically strong accountant that has spent some time in a business partner role.

Four Recruitment is seeking a Commercial Finance Manager based in Preston, Lancashire. This full-time role entails providing financial insight and business partnering to enhance revenue growth and improve margins. The ideal candidate will own customer-level economics and assist with pricing support, becoming a crucial partner to the Commercial, Contracts, and Data teams.

With a competitive salary of £70,000, this role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on the company's financial strategies.

One of the UK’s leading manufacturers is looking for an experienced Financial Controller to lead their dynamic finance team. Operating globally with a head office in Manchester, my client designs, manufactures and distributes high‑quality products.

This is a key leadership role within the finance function, responsible for ensuring timely, accurate financial reporting and driving continuous improvement across their processes. As Financial Controller, you will be responsible for the following:

• Compile monthly management accounts with detailed commentary
• Produce analysis reports, P&L and Balance Sheet schedules for Board Reports
• Consolidate group company accounts and reconcile inter‑company balances
• Complete monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Prepare and submit VAT returns and liaise with auditors during and after audit processes
• Support the Finance Director with additional assignments and process improvements
• Lead, develop and motivate the finance team

I'm looking for a qualified accountant who can lead the finance function day‑to‑day in terms of monthly reporting and drive improvement in processes, systems and MI production.

Immediate consideration. Path to FD under an excellent mentor.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Finance

Manufacturing

Location: Manchester, United Kingdom

Four Recruitment is seeking a Finance Business Partner – Global Solution Specialist to manage a defined portfolio of clients and drive high-quality outcomes aligned with KPIs. This senior role demands technical expertise in areas such as UK GAAP, VAT, and Corporation Tax, as well as strong client-facing communication skills.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years’ post-qualified experience and be adept at delivering statutory accounts while supporting business development initiatives. Opportunities for continuous improvement and mentoring junior staff are also integral to this role.

Four Recruitment is hiring a Commercial Finance Manager based in Preston, Lancashire, Lancashire, North West, UK .

This is a Full time opportunity (£70,000).

The successful candidate is responsible for providing financial insight, business partnering and commercial analysis that drive revenue growth and margin improvement. The role owns customer-level economics, pricing support, and commercial decision analysis, acting as a key partner to Commercial, Contracts and Data.

Four Recruitment is seeking a Head of Brand & Marketing in Stockport, offering a salary of £70,000 plus bonus. This role involves leading the brand strategy and marketing activities for a fast-growing beauty business with a portfolio of four brands.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of marketing experience, primarily in the beauty or FMCG sectors, with hands-on leadership in digital and retail marketing. The company promotes an energetic culture with an early finish on Fridays and growth opportunities.