Finance Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in South Africa.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the daily financial oversight and reporting for the dental business.

• Ensure the provision of precise financial data, strong controls, and efficient cash management.

• Generate monthly management accounts and comprehensive financial reporting packages.

• Create P&L statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports.

• Assess financial performance across individual dental practices and analyze discrepancies.

• Identify and relay financial risks, trends, and opportunities to senior management.

• Maintain accurate accounting records and robust financial controls.

• Deliver practice-level reporting and analysis, tracking revenue, costs, EBITDA, and profitability.

• Pinpoint underperforming practices and collaborate with Practice Managers on improvement strategies.

• Lead the annual budgeting process, rolling forecasts, and cash flow projections.

• Assist with scenario modeling for new practices, acquisitions, expansions, and investment strategies.

• Supervise accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit control, debt collection, and supplier relations.

• Manage payroll processes and review payroll and clinician payment calculations.

• Reconcile revenue from practice management systems, banking, card payments, finance arrangements, and accounting records.

• Assist with statutory accounts, year-end processes, VAT returns, audits, tax advisory, and regulatory compliance.

• Provide commercial financial insights, including marketing ROI, pricing strategies, and analysis of clinician and practice performance.

• Support business cases, acquisition modeling, new practice openings, refurbishments, and expansion initiatives.

• Enhance finance processes and ensure integration between accounting and practice management systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience and qualifications are not specifically detailed in the provided posting.

• Capability to collaborate effectively with the Finance Director, Managing Director, practice managers, and operational teams.

• Understanding of UK accounting, tax, and financial regulations.

• Competence in overseeing accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit control, payroll coordination, management accounts, cash flow, budgeting, and financial reporting.

• Proficiency in preparing monthly management accounts, P&L statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports.

• Ability to manage financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and scenario modeling at the practice level.

• Skill in reconciling practice management systems, banking, payment providers, and accounting records.

• Capability to assist with VAT returns, statutory accounts, audits, tax advisory, and financial due diligence.

• Ability to improve finance processes and ensure systems integration.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.