Senior Finance Manager

Location:

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

Working at LUMIFIL®, a collective of high‑growth aesthetic brands dedicated to providing professionals with science‑backed, clinical‑grade treatments. Consisting of three core pillars:

• Lumifil UK: Established in 2020, Lumifil specialises in premium dermal fillers, offering practitioners market‑leading purity and performance at competitive prices.
• Lumi Pro UK: Founded in 2023, this sister company focuses on advanced skin boosters. It is a market innovator, boasting the UK’s first dedicated lip booster and industry‑leading hyaluronic acid concentrations.
• Smile Pharma: A state‑of‑the‑art, GPhC‑accredited aesthetic pharmacy. It serves as the Group’s "one‑stop shop," providing regulated access to prescription‑only medicines (POMs) and toxins.

Reporting to the Managing Director, the Senior Finance Manager is responsible for the production and maintenance of accurate and complete accounting records and all associated financial reports, through managing the day‑to‑day finance function while ensuring the company adheres to fiscal (including taxation) and statutory compliance at all times.

The Senior Finance Manager creates timely and accurate management accounts, associated MI and commercial reports to enable the financial performance of the business to be reliably reported to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT).

The Senior Finance Manager will have the opportunity, as the business grows, to recruit and form a Finance Team, at which point they will be overall responsible for supervising, mentoring and training junior members, assisting with the setting, monitoring and formal review of performance and agreed KPIs.

Working with the incumbent accounting consultancy:

• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of all accounting records; documenting, reviewing and streamlining accounting functions and operations where possible;
• Introduce and maintain systems of controls where necessary, including formal and rigidly inflexible Stock and Overhead Purchase Order request and approval processes, together with invoice matching and authorised payment approvals;
• Own both the purchase and sales ledgers to minimise working capital requirements, including managing supplier batch payment approvals and associated communications through the finance team;
• Work with the marketing team to produce and circulate a fully reconciled monthly digital marketing spend analysis, split by marketing channel and including COS% and RoAS analysis against a monthly budget and prior‑year cost comparative;
• Ensure financial systems and integrations are fit for purpose – including implementing a new Inventory Management System (IMS);
• Act as the main point of escalation for any customer or supplier invoice queries;
• Rationalise and control the use of company credit/debit cards, whilst managing all expenses approvals and payments.

• Introduce, prepare/oversee, review and sign off the monthly MI pack, including P&L, balance sheet, cashflow/working capital statements, unit sales, channel sales, margin analysis, customer analysis (if data available), digital analytics & KPIs, and all relevant comparatives to PY and budgets set;
• Ensure the MI pack continues to meet business needs, streamlining or adding sections where necessary;
• Introduce and prepare the Company’s monthly KPI Scorecard, across qualitative and quantitative measures, for review by the Managing Director;
• Fully understand performance figures, conducting deep dives where required to explain performance;
• Prepare weekly unit, sales and margin trend analysis by sales channel (if applicable), by product category, sub‑category and brand against PY and budgets set;
• Prepare the initial draft Annual Budget on a timely basis for review by the Managing Director, ensuring the financial model is built bottom‑up, benchmarking all costs to historic data, and working closely (and critically challenging) department heads/budget holders to set key assumptions/operational drivers that can be monitored monthly or weekly;
• Prepare a revised forecast and overall annual outturn on…