About Hemingways
Hemingways Marketing Services Ltd is the UK’s leading online resource for all major UK gift cards, vouchers and e-vouchers, home to Voucher Express, Cadbury Gifts Direct and Green & Black’s. Based in Ripon, North Yorkshire.
We’re a fast track business ranking within the region’s top 100 fastest growing companies and listed in the FT’s 1000 fastest growing UK companies. We offer a fantastic working environment, competitive salary, pension, private medical insurance scheme, and discount on company products. Our current work force numbers over 120.
A great opportunity to join a fast growing company in Ripon...
This is an unparalleled opportunity to join an outstanding finance department in one of Yorkshire’s fastest growing businesses. Hemingways Group Holdings Ltd ranks 26th in the list of fastest growing private companies in the Yorkshire region based on turnover figures from 2018 to 2020. The company also currently ranks 128th in Business Insider’s top 500 best-performing, biggest companies in Yorkshire and the Humber. But our success isn't limited to the UK, we also have commercial gift card operations trading through our legal entities in Amsterdam and Sydney!
As our new finance manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the finance department operations. The role is quite a hands-on role, and requires experience in managing staff to provide leadership and improve processes when necessary.
About your new role as Finance Manager at Hemingways in Ripon (hybrid)
Marks Sattin are delighted to be working with Hemingways to find their next Finance Manager. This is an excellent working opportunity to be part of their company journey and help them accelerate their growth. In return for your hard work and dedication, you will earn a highly competitive salary (depending on experience) and have access to a number of exciting employee benefits!
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Your responsibilities
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- Manage the daily finance team functions, including credit control, banking and cashbook reconciliations, purchase ledger and sales invoice processing
- Prepare monthly management accounts packs for review by directors, including commercial commentary on material variances
- Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Prepare quarterly VAT returns
- Staff management of six and working closely with FD on optimising finance dept structure to align with company growth
- Liaising with external auditors on year end audit process
- Communicating with all stakeholders, including key retail suppliers, on commercial queries when necessary
- Provide or assist in producing value added finance information on an ad-hoc basis
- Collaborate with the commercial accountant to provide commercial finance insight
About you and your Experience
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To be successfully considered for this exceptional role at Hemingways in Ripon, you must be a commercially aware Finance Manager with an accountancy qualification (ACCA / ACA / CIMA). The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and proven experience managing a team.
Ideally, you will have experience working in ecommerce or similar, but this is not a deal-breaker.
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John Lewis, Ticketmaster, Selfridges, Argos and Ikea are just some of the many well-known gift card brands that we work closely with...
We run a range of consumer and corporate sites covering our core businesses – gift cards, branded confectionery and rewards.