Finance Manager (Data & Performance)

This is a senior, high-visibility hire. You'll own management accounting across our three business arms - bespoke projects, ecommerce and trade - reporting directly to the CEO and working alongside a part-time Financial Controller. Critically, you'll also be the architect of our data capability: pulling together multiple data streams and building the dashboards and KPI frameworks that give leadership real-time clarity across the business.

There's real scope here. As the finance function grows around you, so does the role - this is a genuine pathway to leading a team, not just a job that plateaus at the job description.

What you'll be doing

• Owning the monthly management accounts cycle across projects, ecommerce and trade - departmental performance, variance analysis, clear commentary for the CEO

• Building and maintaining dashboards that integrate multiple data streams and give live KPI visibility across all three arms of the business

• Turning financial and operational data into insight that changes how decisions get made - surfacing risks, spotting opportunities, challenging assumptions

• Managing month-end close - accruals, prepayments, continuous improvement in process

• Supporting budgeting and forecasting, with performance-vs-budget monitoring and a narrative that actually means something

• Project and cost accounting - margin visibility across bespoke installs, materials and trade orders

• Finance business partnering across the business - making numbers useful for non-finance people

• Day-to-day working with and oversight of the part-time Financial Controller

Do you have experience in Tableau?, A qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) - or someone with a strong enough track record that the letters are a detail

• Genuine strength in data analytics and dashboard building - Looker Studio, Power BI, Tableau or similar; this is central to the role, not a bonus

• Experience using Claude, Chat GPT and/or Gemini to analyse data and build dashboards

• Experience across a multi-revenue-stream business - you'll need to hold complexity across projects, ecommerce and trade simultaneously

• Confident presenting directly to a CEO - clear, concise, no hiding behind the spreadsheet

• Someone who gets restless with inefficiency and actually does something about it

• Enthusiasm for being part of something that's still being built - you won't just be inheriting a process, you'll be building and shaping one

• Fine with dogs in the office (there are usually a few - they're very well behaved)

Real progression - as the finance function expands, so does this role; this is a genuine pathway to leading a team

• Innovation culture - we iterate and improve constantly, finance included

• Direct CEO visibility - your work shapes how the business runs

• A team that cares - young, motivated, ambitious people who want to do great work

The package

• £42,000 - £48,000 depending on experience

• 28 days holiday including bank holidays

• Salary sacrifice scheme to buy up to 10 additional days' holiday

• Flexible start and finish times

• Dog-friendly workplace

• Modern offices at Durhamgate, south of Durham

If you're a finance professional with a passion for data and an appetite to help build something genuinely exciting, we'd love to hear from you.

Please apply via Indeed

Pay: £42,000.00-£48,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Flexitime
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Finnmark is the UK's leading sauna company - founded by brothers Jake and Max Newport ("The Sauna Twins") out of a genuine passion for authentic Nordic wellness. We design and install bespoke saunas for private homes and commercial spaces, run a thriving ecommerce operation, and supply the trade with premium sauna materials and equipment. We're the UK's only "Sauna from Finland" certified retailer, and we take that standard seriously across everything we do. Based at our HQ at Durhamgate, south of Durham, we're a young, ambitious and industrious team. We move quickly, we iterate constantly, and we're genuinely excited about where we're going. Finance is at the heart of that journey - and we're building the function to match our ambition.