UK Finance Manager

About CIL

CIL is an international management consultancy that helps clients to grow their businesses, build value and invest wisely across a range of sectors.

Like all consulting firms, we are only as good as our people. To continue our strong growth, we are looking to recruit a UK Finance Manager to support the Chief Financial Officer in driving forward UK finance function activities at CIL.

The role

Team structure & reporting lines

The successful candidate will be an integral member of CIL’s finance team, which is headed up by the Chief Financial Officer. We are looking to add someone to oversee our UK accounting, work closely with the operations heads, and be a key member of the senior finance team. This is an exciting time for finance as we look to scale our systems and processes to support the business, including the implementation of a new global finance system.

Core responsibilities

The core responsibilities include:

• Preparing the UK monthly P&L, balance sheet and cashflow
• Partnering with key operations heads to help manage HR, IT and marketing spend
• Overseeing the UK payroll with our external payroll provider
• Managing and developing two direct reports, and working closely with the wider finance team
• Assisting in the preparation of the annual budget and periodic re-forecasts
• Helping lead the UK audit and preparing the review pack for auditors
• Overseeing the UK tax filings with our external tax adviser
• Reviewing and improving finance processes and the control environment
• Supporting the senior finance team as we professionalise and scale, including helping to introduce the new global finance system

Office vs. home working

It is expected that this role can involve a mixture of home and office working (minimum three days per week in the office), although we think the successful candidate would probably benefit from more office time initially to help them get up the curve.

Working for CIL

We have two offices in the UK – one in London and one in Frome, near Bath. The finance team and this role are based in the Frome office which is located in the beautiful Somerset countryside. We also have offices in the USA (Chicago), Germany (Munich) and France (Paris).

Although we work in structured project teams, we are socially very equal, lively and inclusive. There are no corner offices, no cliques – we work in open-plan offices and are not political. We think ‘a culture’ is something other firms have to invent. Ours is the product of the people we employ.

What CIL people are like

We have a team of ~200 highly qualified, highly skilled people across our five offices. Successful CIL people share some key attributes:

• Strong academic background (we are degree agnostic) from a top university
• A ‘growth mindset’ when it comes to problem solving
• Motivation and ambition, able to stand on their own two feet
• Strong team working and people skills
• Outstanding numeracy, written and verbal communication skills
• Humility and quiet self-confidence – we are not an ‘alpha’ environment
• A keen sense of humour and broad shoulders

Salary and benefits

• 25 days’ holiday entitlement with option to purchase five additional days each year
• Option to join company private healthcare scheme through Vitality
• Matched pension contributions of 5%
• Life assurance and long-term sick cover
• A fantastic company culture, with regular company events & socials

We have strict qualification criteria for this role. These are:

1. Be ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified (or international equivalent)
2. Experience working in a similar role
3. Good people skills with experience of managing and developing others
4. A mindset of continual improvement and ability to ‘keep it simple’
5. Knowledge of using finance systems; Sage experience ideal but not essential. Proficiency with Microsoft Office – particularly Excel – is essential
6. Excellent numeracy and completely fluent written and spoken English
7. At the time of starting their employment, the successful candidate must have the right to work in the UK