Assistant Finance Manager

Job Title: Assistant Finance Manager, UK Remarketing
Salary: £45,000 - £53,000 + Bonus (Experience dependent) 
Location: Blackbushe, Hybrid (office visits twice a week) – Occasional travel required
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week (8:30am-5:30pm)
Job Status: Permanent

Join the UK’s largest B2B used vehicle service

At BCA, we’re altogether, more. More than just a normal vehicle remarketing company. More than just any other place to work. We’re Europe's largest vehicle remarketing company, the backbone of the UK’s automotive supply chain, the best place to build the career you want.

Main Purpose of The Role:

The purpose of this role is to support the UK Remarketing (UKR) senior finance team by ensuring robust financial control, accurate reporting and compliance with statutory and BCA requirements. The role will partner closely with regional finance teams to support decision-making, drive financial insight and improve business performance.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Management, Reporting & Controls

• Own the daily end-to-end finance processes and month‑end close processes across areas of responsibility, ensuring understanding of results, accuracy, completeness, and timeliness
• Support the preparation and review of monthly management accounts, ensuring accurate and timely submissions to Group for monthly reporting
• Maintain an effective control environment and strong balance sheet control, including reviews of reconciliations and timely issue resolution
• Ensure compliance with UK accounting standards, financial policies and statutory requirements
• Support external audit processes
• Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting to senior management
• Responsibility for payroll reporting across the UKR business
• Ownership of the accounting and reporting for Remarketing Services
• Input to budgeting, forecasting, and long‑range financial planning activities, working with the regional finance team to ensure current and predicted performance is understood

Team Leadership

• Manage, coach, and develop members of the finance team
• Ensure the team is productive and operating to a high standard
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and high professional standards

   

  Knowledge and Experience Required:

  Essential

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Strong technical accounting knowledge
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail and ability to perform initial self-review of work prior to presentation
• Confident communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with financial systems/ERPs

  Desirable

• Previous team management experience
• Ability to challenge the status quo and a desire to find ways of improving current processes and outputs

We’ve put everything in place to ensure you thrive. Competitive salaries, strong core values and an excellent benefits package that includes:

• Onsite parking
• Company Pension Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• An Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Access to trained Mental Health First Aiders
• Access to BCA Rewards which provides online and store discounts with a range of retailers

And so much more…

As the automotive industry changes, we’re changing with it - putting our people in the front seat for the journey. We’re the number one in what we do for a reason and that’s because of the people we have on our teams. If you want to be a part of a business like this; unrivalled, exciting and appreciative of the work you do, join BCA.

We are proud to be Level 1 Disability Confident and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.

Our policy is to employ the best qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief, or disability.