What you'd actually be doing

This is a hands-on, sleeves-rolled-up finance role in an SME, not a seat in a big finance team. You'd own:

• Month-end close — journals, accruals, prepayments, reconciliations, and a management accounts pack that lands on time and means something
• Sales and purchase ledger, credit control, supplier payments and cash flow forecasting
• VAT returns, CIS, payroll processing and pension submissions
• Job and project costing — tracking margin on individual installations against quoted cost, and telling us clearly where we're making money and where we aren't
• Stock and WIP for heat pumps, cylinders and materials
• Year-end file and liaison with our external accountants and auditors
• Budgeting, forecasting and financial modelling
• Grant and scheme administration, including Boiler Upgrade Scheme and related funding routes
• Getting more out of our systems: we run Odoo ERP and there's real scope to automate and improve the reporting coming out of it
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