Optimum Recruitment Group Limited

Optimum Recruitment Group have been appointed on an exclusive basis to appoint to a Head of FP&A. You will provide strategic commercial guidance to a growing medium sized organisation based on the outskirts of Leeds. Are you a driven FP&A Manager with a passion for excellence wishing to embark on that next step in your career and is keen to lead the function? We are looking for a task and people orientated leader for this opportunity. As Head of FP&A, you will work with the Management Team to provide the Board with high quality, insightful management information to both aid and influence the decision-making process; helping it to achieve its growth objectives. Your daily responsibilities will include: Managing and collaborating with a team of business partners to deliver robust plans and forecasts. Managing the day-to-day operations of Group forecasting, planning, and corporate reporting processes. Preparing and evaluating revenue line PL's on a monthly basis to improve profitability and performance with the team. Providing guidance, reviewing inputs, and offering insights while challenging assumptions. Creating high-quality monthly board packs for the Group FC and CFO presenting plans, forecasts, and actual results in an insightful manner that drives actions at the board level. Working with the management team to review monthly performance against budget and determine necessary actions to be taken as a result. The data driven analysis should include financial and non-financial indicators and be supported by key KPI's. Cash flow forecasting; reviewing weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual comparison of cash flows against budget. Supporting direct reports who partner with functional heads including operations to manage costs and achieve planning/forecast objectives. Evaluating existing approaches, identifying areas for improvement, and simplifying processes. Can you demonstrate the following skills and experiences: Qualified accountant (CIMA / ACA / ACCA) with relevant PQE accounting experience. Proven experience in finance business partnering, fostering collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders. Ability to thrive in a challenging environment with tight timelines. Excellent critical and analytical thinking skills. Self-starter with a high level of motivation to drive performance for the business, the team, and themselves. Exceptional communication skills at all levels. Strong leadership abilities and experience in managing a team. Meticulous attention to detail. Ability to cultivate strong relationships across the organisation. Previous industry experience in FP&A or commercial finance. Competitive salary plus a generous benefits package and a clearly defined hybrid working policy.

Optimum Recruitment Group are proud to be working with a well established and successful travel business based in central York, who are looking to appoint a Relationship Manager to the team. The role is responsible for the effective relationship, engagement and communication of our Tour Manager community, along with the leadership, development and operational management of the Tour Manager team. This role ensures that our self-employed Tour Manager community receives the necessary support, engagement and resources to deliver an outstanding customer experience. Your duties will be to: Lead, manage and develop the team that provides direct support to the Tour Manager community, ensuring efficiency and high service standards in line with Service Level Agreements. Manage performance in line with SLAs while ensuring the team provides a high-quality service and support to Tour Managers. Build effective, professional and supportive relationships with all Tour Managers, managing their journey from recruitment through to exit. Work with key teams to improve Tour Manager quality through attending quality meetings and owning, identifying and driving actions to support Tour Manager quality improvement. Ensure Tour Managers receive regular feedback to support performance in their role, including handling difficult feedback conversations, working with Tour Managers to understand situations and elevate their performance, and the termination of engagement when necessary. Own and manage the St Pancras departure office to ensure it is effectively resourced to support Tour Managers and customers, including rota management and management and leadership of the remote team. Ensure the business retains effective and positive engagement with the Tour Manager community through facilitating annual conferences, regular webinars and communication forums to foster collaboration and information sharing. Oversee the recruitment of high-quality Tour Managers through a fair and effective recruitment process, ensuring all applicants receive a consistent and high-quality experience. Ensure thorough induction of new Tour Managers so they are fully onboarded and set up for success from the outset, including co-facilitating new starter introductory workshops. Collaborate and facilitate team collaboration with other key teams, such as Operational Delivery, to deliver a great experience for our Tour Manager community. Work with teams across the business to ensure our Tour Managers have the resources they need to reach their full potential. Ensure all business as usual activities are followed and completed to a high standard by the Tour Manager team. Any other duties reasonably expected for the role. Can you demonstrate the following key skills and experiences: Strong leadership, coaching and people management skills. Experience working in a role managing a geographically dispersed team of professionals is essential. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to quickly build relationships and trust with diverse stakeholders. A Customer First approach and ability to instil this in others. Comfortable delivering feedback and handling challenging conversations. Desire to be hands-on alongside managing and leading the team. Your background may be retail, HR, tour operations or a related leadership role. Experience within the travel industry is desirable but not essential. Competitive salary and benefits.

Optimum Recruitment Group are proud to be working exclusively for a leading complex manufacturing business in their search for a Finance Director. Our client is a successful privately owned business based in Wakefield. We are looking for a commercially driven, qualified Finance Director with a proven track record of adding value in a leadership role, working alongside the Board to drive the ambitions of the business. You will have a proven track record in owner managed, entrepreneurial growth environments and be able to demonstrate commercial activities that have aided growth, ideally this will be within a similar sized or larger SME. You will have strong financial controls experience and be comfortable running the day to day finance function. You will have experience in supervising and developing a small finance team. You will be hands on and happy to get into the detail but also have the ability to contribute at Board level offering your strategic and commercial acumen and new ideas. You will demonstrate the ability to positively communicate with colleagues, customers and suppliers in order to form and maintain good working relationships. Experience from within manufacturing would be essential. Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills are also essential with the ability to present at Board level and be a strong team player. You will be commercially minded and dynamic, open, engaging, have strength of character and also have a "can do" attitude. The ideal candidate will demonstrate good attention to detail showing logical decision making and prompt delivery to deadlines. Your key duties would include: Provide strategic and commercial financial leadership. Ensure all financial practices are in line with statutory regulations and legislation. Conducting reviews and evaluations to control costs. Management of the annual budgeting process. Developing and managing robust management accounts that provide good quality information to the management team. Developing and managing detailed budgets and forecasts, including all supporting schedules. Working capital and cash management. Ensure compliance with all statutory reporting, tax and regulatory requirements. Provide detailed written and verbal reporting as required to the board in accordance with agreed deadlines. Contribute key financial input to the strategic view and development of the business. Audit preparation / control and management. Preparation and interpretation of financial information. Lead and develop the finance team. Involvement in all financial planning, financial accounting control. Ensuring the provision of appropriate financial information e.g. Monthly management reporting to the board. Identify key risks and opportunities. Ability to act as a business partner to the MD and senior management team, providing strategic, analytical and business support.

Optimum Recruitment Group are proud to be working exclusively with an amazing growth business based in East Leeds who are looking to appoint to a newly created role of Management Accountant. The purpose of the role is to provide management support for all accounting activities and ensure the timescales for monthly reporting are adhered to. A keen eye for detail is required and there is great exposure to a wide range of areas, providing good opportunities in line with their growth plans. Your duties would include: Preparation monthly management accounts, related reports and commentary for group companies. Working with the team to agree intercompany movement and reconciliations. Liaising with the team on any issues/discrepancies with the monthly management accounts or reconciliations and work with the team to resolve any queries. Calculating work in progress and posting the relevant accruals. Assisting in audit queries and information for preparation of statutory accounts. Preparing tax returns, such as VAT and CIS returns. Bank reconciliations Producing monthly cost reports. Maintaining controls and processes, As the successful candidate you must be a team player and happy to roll your sleeves up and support with anything that needs dealing with in finance team. You must be able to demonstrate the following specific skills and experiences: Demonstrable experience of working within the construction industry would be essential, ideally an SME environment. You can be someone studying professional qualifications, an AAT technician or qualified by experience. Able to demonstrate relevant experience in a Management Accountant role. Strong IT skills and ideally some experience of using Xero. Salary up to 40k depending on skills and experience plus benefits.

Optimum Recruitment Group are proud to be working exclusively with this successful growth business based on the outskirts of Leeds who are looking to appoint an additional Finance Business Partner to the team. You will be responsible for providing financial support, insight and analysis to help drive the performance of a number of the business units within the organisation. A blended role within a clear supporting line into the operational business, you must have the ability to commercially support. You will be responsible for: Analysis of customer pricing and profitability, review of the cost base and process profitability. Providing support to the commercial and operational leaderships teams. Providing support to bids, tenders and projects. Performing post project appraisals. Reviewing cost allocations in the management accounts. Production of weekly flash and KPIs. Production of monthly management accounts, annual business plan and quarterly forecasts. Monthly balance sheet reconciliations. Reconciliation between standard costs and management accounts. As the successful candidate you have demonstrable management accounting experience and ideally with some exposure to commercial accounting activity. The client is flexible around professional qualifications. You must however be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience: Building relationships with a wide-range of stakeholders. Challenging and influencing stakeholders. Strong analytical experience. Manipulation of large datasets to produce clear and concise conclusions. An understanding of processes and controls and the ability to identify and implement improvements. The ability to solve problems, reach logical conclusions and make recommendations. Consistently work to deadlines in a disciplined manner to produce high quality outputs. Preparation of management accounts, business plans and forecasts. This role is perfect for someone who is looking to take on a more commercial role. The role will involve some travel to the sites you support across the region on a quarterly basis. Salary up to 50k (depending on skills and experience) plus a generous benefits package. Defined hybrid working environment.

Optimum Recruitment Group are proud to be working exclusively for a leading complex manufacturing business in their search for a Finance Director. Our client is a successful privately owned business based in Wakefield. We are looking for a commercially driven, qualified Finance Director with a proven track record of adding value in a leadership role, working alongside the Board to drive the ambitions of the business. You will have a proven track record in owner managed, entrepreneurial growth environments and be able to demonstrate commercial activities that have aided growth, ideally this will be within a similar sized or larger SME. You will have strong financial controls experience and be comfortable running the day to day finance function. You will have experience in supervising and developing a small finance team. You will be hands on and happy to get into the detail but also have the ability to contribute at Board level offering your strategic and commercial acumen and new ideas. You will demonstrate the ability to positively communicate with colleagues, customers and suppliers in order to form and maintain good working relationships. Experience from within manufacturing would be essential. Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills are also essential with the ability to present at Board level and be a strong team player. You will be commercially minded and dynamic, open, engaging, have strength of character and also have a "can do" attitude. The ideal candidate will demonstrate good attention to detail showing logical decision making and prompt delivery to deadlines. Your key duties would include: Provide strategic and commercial financial leadership. Ensure all financial practices are in line with statutory regulations and legislation. Conducting reviews and evaluations to control costs. Management of the annual budgeting process. Developing and managing robust management accounts that provide good quality information to the management team. Developing and managing detailed budgets and forecasts, including all supporting schedules. Working capital and cash management. Ensure compliance with all statutory reporting, tax and regulatory requirements. Provide detailed written and verbal reporting as required to the board in accordance with agreed deadlines. Contribute key financial input to the strategic view and development of the business. Audit preparation / control and management. Preparation and interpretation of financial information. Lead and develop the finance team. Involvement in all financial planning, financial accounting control. Ensuring the provision of appropriate financial information e.g. Monthly management reporting to the board. Identify key risks and opportunities. Ability to act as a business partner to the MD and senior management team, providing strategic, analytical and business support.