Finance Manager

Do you enjoy owning the numbers and being the trusted finance voice for operations? Are you confident in leading teams while keeping tight control of multi-site financial reporting? Do you want a finance role where accuracy, insight, and integrity truly matter?

Here at GXO, we are currently recruiting for a Finance Manager to join our Wigan team, supporting our customer, Heinz. This is a key customer-facing role focused on delivering commercial performance, driving profitability, and maximising retention. You will use data and insights to challenge and support operations, identify opportunities for improvement, and maintain high service standards. Leading an established team, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing service delivery and strengthening customer relationships.

This is a full-time, permanent position, working Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00. This role is hybrid with the requirement to be onsite 3 days per week.  We are happy to consider the hours 08:00 to 16:00 or 08:30 to 16:30.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £60,000, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Lead, motivate, and develop the finance team to build capability and drive high performance
• Partner with the business to deliver meaningful insight that supports growth and opportunity development
• Monitor and report on key performance indicators to ensure service delivery and contractual commitments are met
• Embed a strong commercial framework while ensuring full adherence to contract requirements
• Collaborate across teams, including HR and customer stakeholders, and actively contribute to meetings to support effective operations

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Demonstrate energy, drive, and a commitment to continuous improvement and high performance
• Proactively challenge and influence teams, bringing curiosity and a performance-focused mindset
• Thrive under pressure while maintaining accuracy, flexibility, and high standards
• Build strong relationships at all levels, with proven experience in team development and using systems to support operational success

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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