# Finance Manager

> SMP Group · London, United Kingdom · Full-time · Posted 2026-05-28

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Finance

## Description

**About SMP Group**

SMP Group is a leading, multi-award winning producer in POS (Point of Sale) and Out-of-Home Advertising.  We are the trusted partner for some of the world’s most recognisable brands and retailers, delivering innovative, high-quality print and production solutions.

 With a rich heritage of excellence and a forward-thinking approach, we pride ourselves on creativity, technology-driven manufacturing, and best-in-class client service. Sustainability, innovation, and people development are at the heart of our DNA.

This is a brilliant opportunity to work with the CFO and management team to enhance and formalise the Finance team’s role as a centre of excellence for systems expertise, information provision and value addition. We are a growing and acquisitive business and we have ambitious plans to further enhance our service and operational capabilities – Finance will play a key role in supporting this.

## Requirements

**The Role:**

**Key Responsibilities:**

-   Support CFO and team to create additional capacity and depth of competence for overall team development and delivery within the context of a developing business
-   Deliver a range of transactional finance function activities (across AP / AR / Payroll) to ensure resilience and business continuity
-   Support month end close with payroll, key reconciliations and journals, and management reports
-   Maintain and further develop month end journal schedules as required
-   Work with other Finance staff to develop and improve systems, processes and levels of competence and delivery
-   Collaborate across the business to develop analyses and supporting processes and systems to measure business performance
-   Develop and track divisional budgets and KPIs
-   Construct and update divisional P&Ls and variance analyses
-   Develop and maintain financial model of business performance
-   Build understanding and buy-in across the team and business for finance team capability and financial and business analyses and initiatives to enhance business performance and resilience
-   Manage ad hoc financial tasks on a regular basis and be an additional point of contact for financial expertise in the organisation
-   Complete VAT reconciliations

**Key Competencies:**

-   Qualified accountant
-   Good communicator
-   Hands-on, common sense approach with ability to prioritise sensibly and to set and pursue realistic goals and manage time and resources to achieve them
-   Creative, dedicated problem solver, numerically fluent and skilled in analytical methods such as data cleansing, application of logical formulae (Excel or database applications)
-   Experienced in data analysis, financial modelling and advanced Excel
-   Familiar with management accounting and entry of journals, from purchase and sales invoices to general journals
-   Technologically fluent and able to suggest adoption or creation of applications for workflow management, automation of tasks, use of AI, etc.

**SMP Competencies:**

-   **Building Collaborative Relationships  
    **Develop, maintain, and strengthen relationships with others inside and/or outside SMP
-   **Customer Orientation  
    **Demonstrate concern for satisfying external and/or internal customers; developing and sustaining productive customer relationships
-   **Innovation  
    **Develop fresh ideas to provide solutions to work challenges
-   **Initiative  
    **Identifies what needs to be done and does it without waiting for others and before being asked or before the situation requires it
-   **Results Orientation  
    **Focus on achieving desired results and how best to achieve them; takes proactive action to get the job done
-   **Flexibility  
    **Adapts to changing business needs, conditions, and work responsibilities
-   Leadership  
    Inspires and motivates employees to perform at their best  
      
    

  **Join us and be part of a company that values** **Creativity, Excellence, and Continuous Improvement**.

## Benefits

-   Competitive Salary
-   25 days holiday
-   Company Pension
-   Employee Assistance Programme
-   Life Insurance

## Apply

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