80 Finance jobs in Bristol

• Prepare and analyze financial statements (IFRS/UK GAAP).
• Manage month-end and year-end close processes.
• Oversee general ledger operations and perform reconciliations.
• Support statutory audits and external auditor inquiries.
• Develop and implement robust internal financial controls.
• Assist with budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and reporting standards.
• Contribute to the improvement of accounting processes and systems.
• Provide guidance to junior accounting team members.

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive accounting experience, with a strong focus on financial reporting.
• In-depth knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Proficiency with accounting software (SAP, Oracle, or similar ERP systems).
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, complex formulas).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong understanding of internal controls and audit processes.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a remote setting.

£Negotiable | Bath (West) | Part-time or Full-time | Free Parking

Hatched Talent is proud to be partnering with a forward-thinking business on the outskirts of Bath in search of a Finance Manager to take ownership of day-to-day financial operations.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced, detail-driven finance professional who enjoys autonomy, variety, and being the trusted "go-to" person for all things finance. Whether you're seeking flexible part-time hours or a full-time position, the role offers the chance to shape and streamline financial processes within a supportive, close-knit team.

Reporting to the Operations Director and CEO, you'll play a key role in ensuring smooth financial management - from invoicing and ledgers to payroll, compliance, and reporting. You'll have real influence in improving efficiency, maintaining accuracy, and supporting business decisions through clear financial insight.

• Invoicing & Payments: Issue invoices, track payments, and manage overdue accounts.

• Bookkeeping: Maintain accurate financial records using Sage , reconcile accounts, and prepare monthly/quarterly summaries.

• Sales & Purchase Ledger: Manage income and expenditure, process supplier invoices, and resolve discrepancies.

• Cash Flow & Budgeting: Monitor and forecast cash flow to support sound financial planning.

• Compliance & Reporting: Prepare VAT returns, liaise with HMRC, and assist with year-end accounts and audits.

• Payroll & Expenses: Oversee payroll coordination, pensions, CIS documentation, and staff reimbursements.

• General Support: Contribute to wider business operations as part of a collaborative office team.

• Proven experience in finance or accounting , ideally within a small business.

• Confident using Sage and other accounting tools.

• Excellent attention to detail, organisation, and time management.

• Strong communicator - able to translate financial information for non-finance colleagues.

• Comfortable managing payments, chasing invoices, and liaising with clients and suppliers.

(Knowledge of CIS, VAT, and cash flow forecasting is advantageous - training can be provided.)

• Flexible working hours and supportive leadership

• Free on-site parking (always available)

• Hybrid working options available for the right candidate

• Training and professional development opportunities

• A collaborative environment where your input truly matters

• Opportunity to build and own the finance function as the company grows

Finance Clerk - Immediate Start
Location: Bristol
Pay Rate: 13 - 14 per hour
Contract Type: Temporary - Permanent

Start Date: Immediate

We're currently recruiting for a Finance Clerk to join a busy and supportive finance team on a temp-perm basis. This is an immediate start role with a strong focus on Excel-based reporting and data handling. If you're confident with spreadsheets, have a background in finance and enjoy working with numbers, this could be a great fit.

About the Company:
Our client is a well-established UK-based business operating in the industrial supply and services sector. With a reputation for reliability and technical know-how, they support a wide range of industries with essential equipment and solutions. The company values teamwork, precision, and a hands-on approach to problem-solving.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing and updating financial records using Excel
• Creating and maintaining reports using Pivot Tables and VLOOKUPs
• Supporting the Accounts Payable and wider finance team with reconciliations and data entry
• Assisting with month-end processes and ad hoc reporting
• Ensuring accuracy and consistency across financial documentation

Ideal Candidate:

• Strong Excel skills are essential - including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs, and data formatting
• Previous experience in a finance or administrative role
• High attention to detail and strong numerical ability
• Able to work independently and manage workload effectively
• Available immediately

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We are looking for a detail-oriented Finance Manager to take ownership of our day to day finance operations. This is a hands-on role with a strong focus on purchase ledger management, while also supporting wider finance responsibilities to ensure the function runs smoothly. You will manage the full purchase ledger process, including invoice processing, supplier statement reconciliations, payment runs, and handling supplier queries, while ensuring that financial records are accurate and up to date. The role also involves assisting with month-end and year-end close processes, including accruals, prepayments, and journals, as well as supporting the preparation of management accounts and reporting packs. In addition, you will contribute to cash flow management, budgeting, and variance analysis, liaise with suppliers, auditors, and internal stakeholders as required, and identify opportunities to improve processes and strengthen controls across the finance function.

The ideal candidate will have strong purchase ledger experience, ideally with broader exposure across finance. You should be AAT qualified or part-qualified ACCA/CIMA (or equivalent), or qualified by experience. Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and confidence in using Excel and finance/accounting systems are essential. You should be able to work independently, take initiative, and manage competing deadlines effectively.

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Morgan McKinley are delighted to be working with a business in South Bristol. They are looking for a Finance Manager to join their team.

The responsibilities for this Finance Manager include:

• Preparing monthly management accounts and reporting packs
• Cashflow control
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Business partnering with various stakeholders
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Assisting with audit process

The ideal candidate:

• Qualified - ACA, ACCA, CIMA
• Experience within either a group or commercial setting - working across multiple entities
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, changing environment
• Strong excel user
• Audit experience

The package:

• Salary - 70,000
• This role does require you to be in the office 5 days a week
• Pension
• Comprehensive overall benefits package

Sellick Partnership are excited to be seeking two Finance Managers on a permanent basis, for Bristol City Council.

About the role:

Role: Finance Manager

Location: Hybrid/Bristol

Salary: 53,807 - 56,089

Hours: Full time, part time or term-time

Reporting to: Business Partner

Overview:

• Provide financial advice and guidance to managers to improve business performance and the delivery of the corporate vision, priorities & values
• Manage and deliver financial and management accounting services including budgeting, medium and long-term financial planning, project support, forecasting, in-year financial reporting (including the closure of the annual accounts) and control
• Identify, develop & support opportunities and initiatives to transform the delivery of financial services across the organisation
• Provide a key consultative role in the strategic & operational development of wide-ranging services

Key responsibilities:

• Identify, develop and support opportunities and initiatives to transform the delivery of financial services
• Progress key internal & external financial documents for your respective area of the portfolio
• Manage & motivate staff, ensuring robust management and supervisory practices are undertaken, learning & development proactively supported and to provide coaching and mentoring as appropriate
• Support and embed culture of budget holder empowerment and delivery of value for money, including application of benchmarking
• Provision of insightful predictive analytics, utilising economic, social, & demographic data and commercial acumen to support business development and income improvements across the organisation
• Lead on the co-ordination & production of the in-year monitoring reports, ensuring key monthly financial monitoring tasks assigned are achieved to a high quality
• Lead on the collation of detailed revenue budgets including growth & transformation cost & efficiency programmes
• Update & publish the annual budget monitoring timetable, briefing all service finance business partnering teams & ensuring service managers & director sign-off is achieved

Finance Manager - Children & Education

• Develop & support on the detailed revenue and/or capital budgets for inclusion within the budget, in liaison with Heads of Service & Business Partners, and in line with the MTFP, Capital Strategy & transformation, efficiency programmes
• Ensure service managers/directors have a thorough understanding and acceptance of their detailed budgets through workshops and other similar processes

Finance Manager - Corporate

• Lead and coordinate development of the Capital and Investment Strategy, ensuring alignment with appropriate corporate strategies & asset management planning
• Lead on the development, coordination and financing of the council's capital programme
• Lead on development & refresh of the Treasury Management Strategy
• Put in place effective banking & appropriate financial systems and processes that support excellent financial stewardship
• Manage cash finances to ensure appropriate level of working capital & the most effective use of investments & borrowing
• Lead and coordinate Tax advice, including VAT, SDLT and Corporation Tax
• Ensure risk management, insurance and associated strategies and plans are effectively delivered
• Process insurance policies, claims & insurance related correspondence and transactions in accordance with agreed timescales ensuing losses are minimised and recoveries maximised

Person specification:

• CCAB (or equivalent)
• Experience of planning, motivating & controlling the work of a diverse team of Finance staff
• Experience of dealing with a range of stakeholders with a varying degree of understanding of financial matters
• Experience in at least 3 of the following areas:
• Supporting the optimisation of effective finance systems
• Budget preparation, analysing and monitoring complex budgets
• Project accounting work - producing business case and benefit realisation
• Producing and analysing complex financial reports
• Completing statutory accounts for a complex organisation
• Financial modelling

How to apply:

To apply, please submit your CV or contact Kathryn Evans in the Sellick Partnership Derby office for a confidential chat.

Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website.

Finance Manager

Yeovil

Are you an experienced, rounded Finance professional looking for a new role? Morgan Mckinley are pleased to be recruiting for a long established, market leading British manufacturer in Yeovil to recruit a Finance Manager to join the business in a newly created role. The business product high-quality, reliable products with a big focus on reducing their environmental footprint. This role reports directly into the Finance Director, where you will ensure the finance function supports both the day-to-day and longer-term strategic goals.

Your role as Finance Manager will include:

• Monthly management accounts, contribution to year-end reporting, preparing audit schedules and working with external auditors
• Supporting the implementation of a new ERP system
• Commercial finance, such as margin & product line profitability, costing and forecasting
• Overseeing transactional ledger work, including supporting/supervising sales ledger, purchase & sales, invoices and reconciliations
• Reviewing, negotiating & renewing supplier contracts, ensuring favourable terms, assessing financials & legal aspects
• Working with fleet management, including contract renewals, comparing proposals & assessing risk
• Processing monthly payroll

What are we looking for?

• QBE or ACCA/CIMA Part/fully qualified
• Experience of preparing financial statements
• Management Accounting experience
• Proficient in ERP financial systems and MS Excel
• Ideally from a SME background
• Manufacturing experience preferred, but not essential

This is a great opportunity to make this role your own. You will do a really varied role and get the chance to gradually take more responsibility, with plenty of room to develop your skills. They offer a hybrid/flexible working policy and 26 days holiday + BH.

If this sounds like the role for you, please apply and we will be in touch to discuss your application further.

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: Yeovil, Somerset

Salary: Dependant on experience

Hours: 8.30am to 5pm Monday to Thursday and 8.30am to 4.30pm on Friday

Benefits:

• Generous Holiday Allowance: Enjoy 26 days of holiday per year, plus bank holidays, giving you plenty of time to relax and recharge.
• Festive Break: Save 3-4 days for a well-deserved Christmas shutdown, ensuring you can fully enjoy the festive season with your loved ones.
• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Benefit from critical illness cover, death in service protection, and company sick pay, providing you and your family with peace of mind.
• Cycle to Work Scheme: Take advantage of the cycle to work scheme, promoting a healthy lifestyle and a greener commute.
• Attractive Pension Plan: Secure your future with the pension plan, where the employer contributes 6% and the employee contributes 2%.

About Our Client:
Join an esteemed manufacturing organisation based in Yeovil, committed to driving financial excellence and operational efficiency. Our client is dedicated to fostering a collaborative environment that encourages innovation and growth, making it an ideal workplace for finance professionals eager to make a significant impact.

Responsibilities:
As the Finance Manager, you will:

• Oversee financial reporting and analysis, preparing insightful statements and budgets.
• Develop and manage financial budgets while forecasting future trends.
• Create long-term business plans and strategies to minimise financial risk.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and implement robust internal controls.
• Lead the finance department, mentoring and supervising a team of finance professionals.
• Present financial information to senior management and other stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and keep abreast of technological advancements in accounting.

Essential (Knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience):

• Strong analytical and numerical skills to interpret financial data effectively.
• Excellent communication skills for conveying complex financial information to diverse audiences.
• Proven leadership abilities with experience in team management and motivation.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills to navigate financial challenges.
• In-depth knowledge of financial regulations and accounting principles, including experience with HMRC and Companies House.
• Proficiency in accounting software (SAGE, SAP) and advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• A bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field, along with professional accounting qualifications (e.g., CPA, ACCA, CIMA).
• Relevant experience in a finance-related role, demonstrating progressive responsibility.

Desirable (Knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience):

• Familiarity with manufacturing financial operations.
• Experience in process optimisation and improvement initiatives.
• Additional qualifications in financial management or related disciplines.

How to apply:
If you're ready to take the next step in your finance career and contribute to our client's success, we would love to hear from you!

To apply for this role, please do so online or email your CV to (url removed). If you would like to speak to a member of the team before applying, please call Debbie on (phone number removed).

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