Finance Manager

Manages the finance team and its output — a qualified accountant with real team leadership responsibility, keeping the numbers accurate and the team performing.

Salaries for Finance Manager roles across Coventry, Birmingham and Warwickshire typically sit at £51.5k – £67k. £51.5k suits a newly qualified candidate with basic team management experience. The higher end, £67k, is market average for an experienced manager with 5+ years leading a team.

We recruit Finance Manager positions on both a permanent and temporary basis, depending on what the business and the candidate need.

Finance Manager roles typically call for ACCA, CIMA or ACA (or being well into your studies towards one), alongside the relevant hands-on experience — exact requirements vary by employer, so it's worth talking to us about what a specific vacancy needs.

Most Finance Manager roles don't demand a specific formal qualification, though AAT study or relevant hands-on experience makes a real difference to the offers you'll see. We can talk you through what a specific vacancy is really looking for.

A common next step from Finance Manager is financial controller — Many of the candidates we place build exactly this kind of progression over several moves, not just one.

Yes — candidates part-qualified or finalist-level in ACCA, CIMA or ACA are a core part of who we place into Finance Manager roles, alongside those already fully qualified.

Submit your CV and a market expert will be in touch to talk through your experience, what you're looking for, and any live Finance Manager opportunities that genuinely fit — free, confidential, and no obligation.

No — there's never a cost to candidates, for this role or any other. Our fee is paid by the employer, and only once a placement is successfully made.

No — nothing about your CV or your situation is shared with any employer without your explicit permission first.

Yes — briefing you properly on the role, the employer and realistic salary expectations before an interview is a standard part of how we support every Finance Manager candidate, not an optional extra.

Yes — you can search live jobs on our careers portal, but we'd always recommend a conversation with a market expert too, since not every Finance Manager vacancy we're working on is advertised publicly.

There's no retainer and no ongoing contract — our fee is only payable on a successful placement, whether that's a one-off hire or an ongoing relationship.

Temporary cover can often be arranged within days. Permanent Finance Manager roles vary with seniority, but our shortlists are built from people we already know rather than a fresh keyword search, so we are able to move faster than a generalist agency's.

Yes — covering absence, leave or an unexpected gap in a Finance Manager position is one of the most common reasons employers come to us, and we aim for a same-day response.

Our rebate periods and money-back guarantees mean you're covered if a placement doesn't work out as expected — ask your market expert for the specifics for your vacancy.

Yes — a working interview means the candidate spends a real day in the Finance Manager role, on your systems, with your actual workload, before either side commits. It's one of the ways we can take the risk out of a new hire.

Yes — we work with everyone from internationally recognised brands and shared service centres through to owner-managed SMEs needing a single, sole-charge Finance Manager hire.

Every candidate we put forward has been spoken to and assessed against your specific requirement — not just keyword-matched from a database. That's the difference our specialist business model makes.

We are transactional finance and payroll specialists. We know this market deeply: the Finance Manager space, the going rates, who's actively looking. Real expertise beats generic database searches.We recruit transactional finance and payroll specifically, not as one line among fifty sectors — that focus means genuinely knowing the Finance Manager market, the going rate, and who's actually looking, rather than running a keyword search against a generic database.