# Finance Manager

**Company:** [R.A.D](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/g3T3XWPNxiWBdaXhDwAHDY.md)
**Location:** London, United Kingdom
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Commercial, Finance and Operations

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## Description

**About Us:** 

R.A.D® is a performance footwear company using innovation and creativity to unlock the euphoria of sport. Inspired by skateboarding and surfing, we blend cutting-edge performance with a distinctive aesthetic rooted in lifestyle subcultures. As an underdog in a field dominated by giants, we focus on authentic, credible brand-building that challenges the status quo - step by step crafting a legacy. Tuned For The Future. 

**Role Overview:** 

This is a real contributor role for a commercially sharp, qualified management accountant who wants to be genuinely embedded in a growing performance brand. You will own monthly management accounts, drive cost and margin analysis, and oversee inventory accounting and act as a financial partner to the wider business. You will work alongside our Financial Controller (who owns systems, compliance, and control), allowing you to focus on management information - and on being the person the wider business comes to when they need to understand the numbers behind a decision. 

**Key Responsibilities:** 

-   Own the management accounts - live and breathe the numbers. 

-   Own month-end close, coordinating with the internal finance team. 

-   Provide analysis of product margins across DTC and wholesale channels. 

-   Own the stock reconciliation process - coordinating with operations teams to ensure stock movements are correctly recorded, and that stock balances are understood and in line with our financial systems. 

-   Be the numbers person the business turns to. Once you understand what drives our margins, our channels, and our stock, you'll be the natural point of contact when a non-finance colleague needs to sense-check a decision - whether that's a marketing spend proposal, a new product line, or a promotional plan. This isn't a formal "business partner" function with its own KPIs; it's about being close enough to the detail that people trust your read on it, and confident enough to ask "why?" and push back when something doesn't add up. 

-   Drive process improvements across all areas to reduce manual effort and ensure we're focused on value-adding activities, not just process.

## Requirements

-   Fully qualified - CIMA preferred, ACCA or ACA considered. 

-   Background in consumer product, retail, sportswear, or footwear strongly preferred. 

-   Experience of owning the Management Accounts process, from production to presentation. 

-   Experience explaining financial information to non-finance colleagues and answering their questions confidently - this could come from a business partnering role, or simply from being the go-to finance contact in a smaller team. 

-   Solid inventory/stock accounting experience. 

-   Comfortable working with NetSuite or equivalent ERP as a key user. 

-   Comfortable being both strategic and hands-on in a small, fast-moving team. 

**You are:** 

-   Commercially minded - connecting financial insight to real business outcomes. 

-   A self-starter who takes ownership without needing to be chased. 

-   A relationship builder - if you don't know the answer to something, you'll quickly learn who does, and build the kind of relationship that means they're happy to give it to you. 

-   Inquisitive - you want to understand the "why?" and aren't afraid to push back. 

-   A clear communicator with non-finance stakeholders, able to quickly digest data and ideas and simplify them for others. 

-   Energised by working in a small business with a roll-your-sleeves-up attitude. 

-   Looking for a long-term relationship with a business you can grow with. We're ambitious and going places - you should want to come with us.

## Benefits

-   25 days annual leave + bank holidays. 

-   Generous employee allowance. 

-   Family/friends discount. 

-   Quarterly 'Power of Movement' allowance towards physical pursuits (gym membership, race entry, etc.). 

-   Office gym.