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Financial Services Finance Manager Contract UK

Name: Financial Services Finance Manager Contract UK
Brand: HRHeaven
SKU: financial_and_insurance_finance_manager_generated_v1
Price: 19.99 GBP
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Define finance leadership around credible reporting, supported teams and effective control ownership.

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Last updated: 19 June 2026
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Job description

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Probation period

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Role-specific duties

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Working hours

Standard and flexible working arrangements.

Holiday entitlement

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Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

Clear process and employee rights.

Notice periods

Notice terms explained for both parties.

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When to use this contract

Produce timely supported finance reporting, maintain effective team and control oversight, and produce credible forecasts and decisions.

Workplace context: Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering entities products and finance remit. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering team close controls and review. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering budgets forecasts audit and tax. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering authority systems and governance. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering company policies.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The manager cannot approve outside delegation, conceal control failures, direct unsupported entries or represent estimates as final verified facts. May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

What to prepare before you issue it

the entities teams and reporting scope
the close and control ownership
the budget journal and approval limits
the audit tax and regulatory interfaces
the executive governance and escalation routes

Day-to-day operating brief

What Finance Manager work looks like in practice

A Finance Manager leads reporting, planning or control work for a financial-services business. Terms should identify entities, products, team responsibilities, close, budgets and forecasts, reconciliations, audit, tax or regulatory interfaces, projects, system access, approval limits and accountability for reviewing evidence rather than merely meeting reporting dates. Management review should demonstrate challenge of unusual entries, aged reconciliations and changing assumptions rather than a signature added after preparation. Forecast ownership also needs business input and named evidence for major movements. Where reporting is corrected, the manager should consider downstream board papers, regulatory data and decisions already made from the earlier figure. Team allocation should preserve review independence during leave and reporting peaks instead of giving one employee end-to-end control temporarily. Management papers should distinguish actuals, forecast, scenario and unapproved opportunity so readers do not mistake a possible commercial outcome for available funds.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

Lead finance staff and reporting cycles.
Review reconciliations, journals and controls.
Manage budgets, forecasts and variances.
Coordinate audit, tax and stakeholder requests.
Escalate misstatement, liquidity and conduct concerns.

A realistic working scenario

A close deadline conflicts with an unresolved control failure, so the manager escalates its impact rather than signing off an unsupported number.

Outputs to agree

timely supported finance reporting
effective team and control oversight
credible forecasts and decisions

Records and evidence

Close plan review and sign-off.
Budget forecast and variance.
Control exception and remediation.
Audit query and governance report.
Work records.
Handover notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Finance Director, Chief Financial Officer or Managing Director. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

The manager cannot approve outside delegation, conceal control failures, direct unsupported entries or represent estimates as final verified facts.
May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Supervision

Lead finance staff and reporting cycles.
Allocate and review assigned work within delegated authority and escalate formal people matters through the Employer's procedures.

Tools and systems

Finance systems.
Purchase order systems.
Banking portals.
Spreadsheet records.

Workplace context

Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

Contract priorities

entities products and finance remit
team close controls and review
budgets forecasts audit and tax
authority systems and governance

Information the employer should prepare

the entities teams and reporting scope
the close and control ownership
the budget journal and approval limits
the audit tax and regulatory interfaces
the executive governance and escalation routes

Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.

Maintained role evidence

The facts this Finance Manager contract is built around

These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for financial & insurance work.

Work setting

Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

Primary duties

Lead finance staff and reporting cycles.
Review reconciliations, journals and controls.
Manage budgets, forecasts and variances.
Coordinate audit, tax and stakeholder requests.

Tools and training to confirm

Finance systems.
Purchase order systems.
Banking portals.
Spreadsheet records.

Governance focus

FCA context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering entities products and finance remit. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering team close controls and review. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering budgets forecasts audit and tax.

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Role wording

Finance Manager duties

Produce timely supported finance reporting, maintain effective team and control oversight, and produce credible forecasts and decisions.

Lead finance staff and reporting cycles. Review reconciliations, journals and controls. Manage budgets, forecasts and variances. Coordinate audit, tax and stakeholder requests. Escalate misstatement, liquidity and conduct concerns.

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What is added to the finished contract

The manager cannot approve outside delegation, conceal control failures, direct unsupported entries or represent estimates as final verified facts.

May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering entities products and finance remit.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering team close controls and review.

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