"Are you an experienced Commercial Finance Manager who thrives on digging into operational data, questioning processes, and asking: 'Is there a better way to do this?'"
An established, high-growth international commercial trading organisation operating across Europe, North America, and Asia is seeking an agile, commercially driven Finance Manager to join their team in Lisburn.
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Reporting directly into senior leadership and collaborating with a dedicated finance team, you will bridge the gap between core accounting controls and live commercial decision-making. This role moves beyond retrospective month-end reporting will actively partner with international logistics, trading, and operations teams while helping automate workflows through business intelligence and process automation.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Commercial Decision Support: Partner with senior leadership to translate multi-territory operational and supply-chain datasets into actionable commercial insights and board-ready reporting.
- Margin & Cost Control: Maintain oversight of day-to-day trade operations, evaluating landed product costs, shipping/freight logistics, and operating margins across multi-currency transactions.
- Month-End & Financial Control: Lead the month-end close and management accounts process, ensuring accurate balance sheet reconciliations, variance analysis, and statutory governance.
- Cash Flow & Forecasting: Build, maintain, and stress-test rolling cash flow models to forecast liquidity requirements across international supply cycles.
- FP&A & Budgeting: Facilitate annual budget preparations, rolling forecasts, and multi-variable scenario models alongside operational department heads.
- Automation & Systems Optimisation: Identify repetitive manual tasks and static spreadsheets; leverage modern digital tools (such as Power BI, Power Query, and ERP workflows) to automate reporting and drive team efficiency.
- Payroll & Compliance Oversight: Supervise outsourced payroll functions and coordinate with external auditors and local regulatory bodies.
- Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and manage a finance team, coordinate daily workloads, support personal development, foster high performance, and promote a culture of proactive problem-solving.
What We Are Looking For:
- Professional Qualifications: Fully Qualified (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) or Part-Qualified / Passed Finalist with substantial industry experience.
- Technical Accounting & Analysis: Proven background in management accounts preparation, balance sheet reconciliations, budgeting, and rolling forecasting.
- Financial Modelling & Data: Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (complex lookups/nested formulas) and practical experience building or maintaining Power BI dashboards.
- Commercial / Supply-Chain Exposure: Prior experience within international trading, manufacturing, wholesale, logistics, distribution or import/export environments is highly desirable.
- The "Constructive Challenger" Mindset: Demonstrated confidence to constructively challenge existing workflows, identify bottlenecks, and implement smarter ways of working.
- Communication & Collaboration: Confident working with multi-disciplinary stakeholders across sales, operations, and executive leadership.
- Demonstrable experience supervising, managing, or mentoring finance colleagues, with the ability to delegate effectively and build team capability.
Package & Benefits
- Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 per annum (negotiable based on experience).
- Working Pattern: Hybrid model (Lisburn office-based with 1 day remote working per week).
- Pension Scheme: 5% employer pension contribution.
- Holiday Entitlement: 25 days annual leave + 8 statutory bank holidays.
- Culture: Direct visibility to company directors, genuine autonomy, and an environment that actively encourages process innovation and tech adoption.
Click Apply Now with your updated CV for immediate consideration-don't miss out, apply today!
Randstad Business Support acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Business Support is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
"Are you an experienced Commercial Finance Manager who thrives on digging into operational data, questioning processes, and asking: 'Is there a better way to do this?'"
An established, high-growth international commercial trading organisation operating across Europe, North America, and Asia is seeking an agile, commercially driven Finance Manager to join their team in Lisburn.
Reporting directly into senior leadership and collaborating with a dedicated finance team, you will bridge the gap between core accounting controls and live commercial decision-making. This role moves beyond retrospective month-end reporting will actively partner with international logistics, trading, and operations teams while helping automate workflows through business intelligence and process automation.
What You'll Be Doing:
...
- Commercial Decision Support: Partner with senior leadership to translate multi-territory operational and supply-chain datasets into actionable commercial insights and board-ready reporting.
- Margin & Cost Control: Maintain oversight of day-to-day trade operations, evaluating landed product costs, shipping/freight logistics, and operating margins across multi-currency transactions.
- Month-End & Financial Control: Lead the month-end close and management accounts process, ensuring accurate balance sheet reconciliations, variance analysis, and statutory governance.
- Cash Flow & Forecasting: Build, maintain, and stress-test rolling cash flow models to forecast liquidity requirements across international supply cycles.
- FP&A & Budgeting: Facilitate annual budget preparations, rolling forecasts, and multi-variable scenario models alongside operational department heads.
- Automation & Systems Optimisation: Identify repetitive manual tasks and static spreadsheets; leverage modern digital tools (such as Power BI, Power Query, and ERP workflows) to automate reporting and drive team efficiency.
- Payroll & Compliance Oversight: Supervise outsourced payroll functions and coordinate with external auditors and local regulatory bodies.
- Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and manage a finance team, coordinate daily workloads, support personal development, foster high performance, and promote a culture of proactive problem-solving.
What We Are Looking For:
- Professional Qualifications: Fully Qualified (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) or Part-Qualified / Passed Finalist with substantial industry experience.
- Technical Accounting & Analysis: Proven background in management accounts preparation, balance sheet reconciliations, budgeting, and rolling forecasting.
- Financial Modelling & Data: Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (complex lookups/nested formulas) and practical experience building or maintaining Power BI dashboards.
- Commercial / Supply-Chain Exposure: Prior experience within international trading, manufacturing, wholesale, logistics, distribution or import/export environments is highly desirable.
- The "Constructive Challenger" Mindset: Demonstrated confidence to constructively challenge existing workflows, identify bottlenecks, and implement smarter ways of working.
- Communication & Collaboration: Confident working with multi-disciplinary stakeholders across sales, operations, and executive leadership.
- Demonstrable experience supervising, managing, or mentoring finance colleagues, with the ability to delegate effectively and build team capability.
Package & Benefits
- Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 per annum (negotiable based on experience).
- Working Pattern: Hybrid model (Lisburn office-based with 1 day remote working per week).
- Pension Scheme: 5% employer pension contribution.
- Holiday Entitlement: 25 days annual leave + 8 statutory bank holidays.
- Culture: Direct visibility to company directors, genuine autonomy, and an environment that actively encourages process innovation and tech adoption.
Click Apply Now with your updated CV for immediate consideration-don't miss out, apply today!
Randstad Business Support acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Business Support is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
