Venture Recruitment Partners is pleased to be working with a local manufacturing firm in its search for a finance manager to join its friendly and supportive team at Hedge End. This role requires you to be in the office, full time, 5 days a week.This is a highly commercial role, and decisions and advice are to be taken in the context of the wider business s objectives and challenges. As a strong communicator both internally and externally, the Finance Manager is the main point of contact for all accounting-related matters and is responsible for maintaining close relationships with some of the Company s key external stakeholders.The Finance Manager has overall responsibility for the end-to-end Finance process at this business, with responsibilities including, but not limited to: Day-to-day transactional oversight of the sales and purchase ledger to ensure cut-off deadlines are met and queries are promptly resolvedMaintaining the nominal ledger to ensure transactions are accounted for in accordance with the Company s accounting policiesProduction of the monthly Management Accounts pack including Profit and Loss, Balance sheet and key ratio calculations. Investigating and explaining variances against budget and presenting findings to managementOversight of the annual accounts production processProducing and submitting quarterly VAT returnsMaintaining a rolling cash-flow forecastPreparation of the annual budget and undertaking quarterly reforecasting where appropriateReviewing cu