Finance Manager (Part-time) - #2196915

Role: Finance Manager (Part-Time)

Salary: Up to £40,000 FTE, pro rata

Working Pattern: 3 days a week, either full days or within school hours. More office time initially, then mainly remote with 2 to 3 office days a month

Location: Manchester City Centre

Start Date: January 2027

Talent Accountancy & Finance are supporting a highly profitable, fast-growing professional services SME in Manchester City Centre find a talented Finance Manager on a part-time basis. The directors built the finance function and have run it themselves, and it works well. Now they want a capable finance professional to take it off their hands, own it and become their go-to person on the numbers.

It’s a genuinely end-to-end role with a real mix of hands-on and higher-level work. The transactional side is light and runs on Xero. It covers weekly billing, payment runs, a simple purchase ledger of around 30 invoices a month and light-touch credit control on a clean debtor book. That leaves your time for the value-add: monthly management accounts against budget and forecast, weekly cash flow, and the insight the directors need to make good decisions.

You’ll work closely with the directors and have a weekly catch-up to review business performance, plan projects and help shape decisions as the business grows. They’re flexible on how the 3 days work for you, and once you’re settled you’ll have the freedom to improve systems and processes your way.

Key responsibilities

• Produce the monthly management accounts against budget and forecast, with clear commentary for the directors
• Own the weekly cash flow and report it to the directors every week
• Have a weekly catch-up with the directors to review the numbers and plan projects
• Manage the annual tax calendar and be the main contact for the external accountants
• Run the sales ledger, from weekly billing through to light-touch credit control
• Process a simple purchase ledger (around 30 invoices a month) and run the payment runs
• Reconcile the company credit cards and staff expenses
• Keep the ledgers clean and current, with cash allocation and weekly bank checks
• Once settled, improve systems and processes so the function keeps getting sharper

About you

• You like ownership. Hand you the keys and you’ll run with it, making sound calls on your own and knowing when to raise something
• You’re commercially minded and comfortable sitting with business owners, explaining what the numbers mean and what to do about them
• You take real pride in your work and get the detail right first time
• You pick up an established way of working quickly, then spot where it can be done better
• You’ve owned month-end and produced management accounts with variance analysis and commentary for a senior audience
• You’ve managed cash flow, the ledgers and the relationship with external accountants, ideally covering the whole function in an SME
• You’re qualified (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or qualified by experience, confident on Xero and strong in Excel

Why apply

Part-time roles with this much ownership are rare. You’ll take over a function that already works, so there’s no mess to clear up, just the chance to run it well and make it better. You get real autonomy, a direct line to the directors, hours that fit around your life and a fast-growing business to grow with.

If you want a finance role you can really own, in a business that’s going places, on a schedule that fits around your life, this is the one.

Apply now

If you’d like to be considered for this role please apply with your CV, or contact Sam directly for a confidential chat.