Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, are now recruiting for a Finance Shared Service Manager to join our team. You will be based between our offices in Bishops Cleeve and Staverton to support our continued success and ambitious growth plans.
Ontic is a more than just a business, we’re a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. We’re committed to excellence, driving us to continuously improve and adapt, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.
What will you be doing?

You will lead the teams responsible for the credit control and accounts payable functions for the UK operations at Ontic. As such you will have a key role in supporting working capital management and maintaining the integrity of the balance sheet.

• Management/Oversight of the Credit Control and Accounts Payable functions and positions within finance (team of 5).
• Production of key balance sheet reconciliations.
• Support month end processing and business reporting.
• To lead weekly debt meetings to drive efficient and effective credit control and to challenge the wider business as required.
• Ownership of the GRNI process and ensuring timely reconciliations are completed.
• Support the OPCF forecast and analysis as required by maintaining tidy and complete accounting ledgers and developing an understanding of customer and supplier activity.
• Facilitating the approval and creation of customer and supplier accounts.
• Ensuring that financial controls are maintained and fit for purpose.
• Support external and internal site audit processes as required.

What will you need to know?

Essential:

• Proven experience in a similar role
• Recently qualified / Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Strong Excel skills
• Logical thinking and attention to detail
• Ability to plan and prioritise own workload
• Ability to communicate easily on various levels
• Ability to investigate problems and resolve queries in a timely manner
• Comfort in an environment of change and continuous improvement

Desirable:

• Evidence of personal growth and development
• One Stream and Infor Visual or Siteline experience
• Experience in manufacturing environment
• Line Management experience

Benefits Overview
At Ontic we care about your financial, physical, and mental wellness so we offer a range of benefits to support this, we care about what matters to you and have a valued culture of recognition and empowerment, accompanied by benefits that support work/life balance.

Our benefits package highlights include:

• Up to 29 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays
• 10 hours paid volunteering time
• Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounts and offers from a range of retailers

Best place to work

We are more than the sum of our parts. And we’ve been recognised internally and externally for being so:

• We were ranked #9 in Best Companies’ Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback
• 72.5% of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at Ontic

No day is the same at Ontic; we have doubled in size over the last couple of years and are still in rapid growth. We attribute our success to empowering colleagues to create the opportunity, fostering an environment of autonomy where we ask for forgiveness, not permission.
Our values

Our values are intrinsic to everything we do:

• We share a common sense - we’re a global family of specialists with a shared passion for precision.
• We have the freedom to choose - we’re challengers and innovators with the freedom to think differently and challenge the status quo.
• We create the opportunity - we’re change-makers with a clear direction and can-do spirit.

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you’ll enjoy a career with us

• Management/Oversight of the Credit Control and Accounts Payable functions and positions within finance (team of 5).
• Production of key balance sheet reconciliations.
• Support month end processing and business reporting.
• To lead weekly debt meetings to drive efficient and effective credit control and to challenge the wider business as required.
• Ownership of the GRNI process and ensuring timely reconciliations are completed.
• Support the OPCF forecast and analysis as required by maintaining tidy and complete accounting ledgers and developing an understanding of customer and supplier activity.
• Facilitating the approval and creation of customer and supplier accounts.
• Ensuring that financial controls are maintained and fit for purpose.
• Support external and internal site audit processes as required