Job Overview
Ocean Fish Group Ltd are excited to offer an opportunity to join our Finance team as a Finance Manager.
Based at our offices in Roche, St Austell, this role is responsible for overseeing the Group’s day-to-day transactional finance activities. You’ll lead the financial processing team, ensuring the accurate and timely delivery of billing, collections, supplier payments, bank reconciliations, FX processing, expenses, and other core finance operations.
You’ll play a key role in safeguarding cash, maintaining robust financial controls, and delivering a high standard of service across the business, while ensuring compliance with UK regulations, including VAT, PAYE interfaces, and GDPR.
This position requires exceptional attention to detail, strong organisational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, alongside a high level of discretion and professionalism.
Duties
1. Accounts Payable
- Oversee supplier onboarding and data controls (bank detail verification, VAT status, duplicate vendor checks)
- Manage invoice receipt, coding, and approvals in line with relevant authority levels.
- Ensure matching and discrepancies resolved.
- Run weekly payment proposals (aligned to cash forecast), secure approvals, and execute payment runs.
- Maintain AP ledger integrity: aged payables review, supplier statement reconciliations, debit balance clearance.
- Control employee expenses and credit cards.
- Process HMRC, rates, utilities, and lease payments; manage standing orders and direct debits.
2. Accounts Receivable and Credit Control
- Supervise customer onboarding and credit checks; set and regularly review credit limits and terms.
- Own billing and invoice processing including, sales order to invoice and invoice finance processing.
- Own relationships with credit insurers and bank for invoice finance facility.
- Ensure VAT compliant invoicing and maintain pricing and contract data integrity.
- Cash application and remittance matching. Manage resolving of unidentified/short payments.
- Run customer statements and dunning cycles; manage disputes, claims, chargebacks, and credit notes.
- Drive collections performance (DSO reduction); escalate and negotiate repayment plans; manage third-party collections if needed.
- Administer direct debit runs and refunds (where applicable).
3. Banking, Cash & FX Operations
- Daily cash positioning and bank reconciliations (multi-bank, multi-currency).
- Prepare and control payment files (BACS, Faster Payments, CHAPS; SWIFT where relevant) with secure approvals.
- Maintain bank mandates and user access; enforce segregation of duties for payment creation, approval, and release (in line with relevant authority levels).
- Process incoming & outgoing FX transactions; post and reconcile FX gains/losses, support month-end revaluations, manage FX hedges with bank (in line with forecast requirements).
- Manage other transactions including, card receipts, chargebacks, and online payment gateways and others.
4. Other Transactional Processes
- Intercompany recharges, settlements, and netting; maintain intercompany matrices and documents.
- Provide support and cover, from within the team, for the Payroll Manager.
5. Controls, Compliance and Month-end Interface
- Embed control framework: approvals, vendor changes verification, payment run reviews, user access recertifications.
- Ensure UK VAT compliance (MTD), correct coding (standard/reduced/zero/exempt/RC), and timely returns support with reconciliations.
- Support audit (internal/external): samples, audit trails, narratives, and remediation of findings.
- Deliver complete and accurate month-end processing close packs (AP accruals, GRNI, AR cut-off, cash recs).
- Maintain policies and SOPs across department with signed reviews (at least annually).
- Ensure GDPR compliance for finance data (supplier/customer/employee information) and secure document retention
- Own day to day operation of the finance processing stack (in Sage, Paperless and other systems).
- Drive automation and reduce manual journals.
6. People Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Lead, coach, and develop a high performing transactional finance team with clear objectives.
- Resource and prioritise workloads to ensure daily task performance and meet month and year end cycles.
- Work with other functions to ensure compliance, accuracy and dispute prevention across key areas including POs and invoicing.
- Develop, implement and management performance against a suite of transactional finance KPIs.
Qualifications and skills required:
- Prior experience in financial processing and transactions
- Prior experience managing a team of transactional staff
- Strong knowledge of financial transactions including:
- Accounts payable
- Accounts receivable / credit control
- Payments and cash management
- FX transactions
- VAT and tax compliance
- Controls and compliance management
To apply for this role please email your CV and cover letter to [email protected] with the subject title Finance Manager.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £45,000.00-£55,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
