Finance Manager

Company: Jigsaw Finance
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

Jigsaw Finance is the UK’s fastest-growing motor finance brokerage – and we’re just getting started. We were listed in The Sunday Times Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies 2026. Since the company was acquired in 2023: annual turnover has rocketed from circa £2m to a figure of £18m. The current business plan targets over £30m in turnover by FY28/29. This is a business in genuine growth mode, and there’s never been a better time to join.

What we do

We work with a substantial panel of motor finance lenders to help customers of all credit profiles find and fund their next vehicle. We operate across two routes to market:

  • B2B (circa 75%) – processing introductions from motor dealerships across the UK whose customers want to buy on finance
  • D2C (circa 25%) – processing finance applications from customers who come to us directly through digital marketing, then helping them source a vehicle from a dealership of their choice

Revenue comes predominantly from finance commission, plus ancillary products like vehicle warranty and other protection products.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a newly created role – built for the next phase of Jigsaw Finance’s growth story. You’ll report directly into our Group Finance Director and lead a team of two Accounts Assistants, shaping how our finance function scales from here.

Own the day-to-day rhythm of the transactional finance function, making sure processes are slick, controlled, and built to scale

Get hands-on with improving financial processes and controls – this is a business moving fast, and there’s real scope to shape how things are done, not just follow what’s already there.

LOCATION & WORKING ARRANGEMENTS

This is a primarily remote role, however some office attendance will be required. The successful candidate must be able to travel to our Macclesfield and Stoke-on-Trent offices occasionally for stakeholder meetings and other business requirements.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Own the numbers, drive the business

  • Take ownership of month-end close, management accounts, and financial reporting – Support the Finance Director to produce accurate, timely insight that the leadership team actually acts on.
  • Partner with the Finance Director to build out budgets, forecasts, and cash flow models that keep pace with our growth

Lead and develop your team

  • Manage, coach, and grow two Accounts Assistants – building their technical skills and setting them up for their own career progression

Build the engine as we grow

  • Support statutory reporting, audit processes, and compliance, working closely with external advisors and auditors
  • Play a key role in systems and process improvement projects as the finance function matures alongside the business
  • Work the Finance Director and team to build further accuracy and efficiencies into the payroll and HR processes, including review and implementation of new systems.

Be a genuine business partner

  • Work with department heads to improve operations by strengthening processes
  • Bring a commercial mindset to everything – this isn’t a back-office reporting role, it’s a seat at the table

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Qualifications and Background

  • Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
  • Proven experience either in practice or in industry, ideally with sector experience.
  • Track record of ownership of month-end reporting, statutory accounts, and audit
  • Strong working knowledge of UK GAAP and statutory reporting requirements

Leadership and Team

  • Experience leading and developing a small finance team
  • Comfortable operating hands-on in a fast-growing, owner-managed business

PREFERRED SKILLS

  • Experience within motor finance, consumer credit, lending, or another FCA-regulated environment
  • Experience of Sage Accounting and/or Payroll systems
  • Exposure to HR oversight, payroll, and commission scheme design

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

  • Self-motivated with the ability to take initiative and manage your own workload
  • Strong communicator, comfortable liaising with colleagues at all levels and with external stakeholders
  • Commercially minded, with a pragmatic approach to problem-solving
  • Detail-oriented, with high standards of accuracy and governance
  • Ambitious and comfortable with the pace and change that comes with rapid growth

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Posted: September 24th, 2026