Job Summary
Knights Garden Centres are seeking, due to retirement, a commercially minded and hands-on Finance Manager to join our team at Woldingham. Reporting to the owners, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality financial reporting, supporting commercial decision-making, payroll processes, carrying our accurate bank reconciliations and ensuring strong financial controls across the business.
SAGE 50 Accounts
- Preparing Final Annual Accounts to trial balance for Partnership. Two retail outlets and two Coffee Shops.
- Ensuring each department within the Centres does a stocktake twice a year. Doing journals in SAGE each month of the stock movements.
- Preparing Cash Flow forecast and updating each month.
- Balancing SAGE with Bank Account and Bank with manual books.
- VAT returns and submissions to HMRC.
- SAGE 50 Computer operation (backed by a minimum of manual accounts). Three computers networked.
- Setting up depreciations each year for Furniture & Equipment, Fixtures & Fittings, Premise Improvements, Motor Vehicles.
SAGE Payroll and NEST Pension
- 4 weekly payroll for 100 employees.
- Time sheets / sickness / absence/ holidays / pensions.
- Transmission of PAYE & NI to HMRC.
- Contracts for all employees.
- End of year P60s and returns to HMRC.
- Updating time sheets each pay run (adding new employees, removing leavers, changing hours and/or days where necessary etc.) and sending to branches.
General
- Insurance – Keeping policies up-to-date.
- Leases and Concessions.
- Completing surveys for National Statistics (at least two a month – Sales – Business Insights. Also, quarterly stock, quarterly capital expenditure, quarterly staff numbers, annual enquiry).
- Overseeing office staff who deal with: cash / safe / balancing tills cash & card payments / weekly sales reports / input of suppliers and overhead invoices to SAGE / remittance advices / filing / stationery stock / online purchases on Company Credit Card / requests for donations / petty cash balancing / taxing of vehicles etc.
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
Application question(s):
- Please supply your interview availability, dates/times.
Work Location: In person
