Finance Manager

VIRTUS Data Centres is the UK's fastest growing data centre provider with ambitious plans for further expansion within the UK and Europe.

As part of the wider ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) Group, VIRTUS is the home of the cloud in London and at the heart of Europe.

Collectively, the STT GDC Group provides a global platform that has more than 140 data centres worldwide with over 1.8GW of IT load, across 20 major business markets.

VIRTUS has a proven track record of over a decade designing and operating the UK's most efficient facilities. We are committed to the highest standards of Operational Excellence safety, security, and availability and always seek to hire the best people to work in an industry which is increasingly essential to everyone and everything.

We employ intelligent thinkers people with positive attitudes, who add value to our customer proposition and business. We value individual endeavour and initiative, encourage teamwork and togetherness because collective experience and expertise is VIRTUS' greatest strength.

Job Summary

This Finance Manager position is a newly created role that will handle all day-to-day operational finance matters for VIRTUS in Germany.

This is a market that VIRTUS entered during 2023 so this role offers a chance to be involved from the start of this exciting expansion phase for the business, helping to deliver the very substantial growth in EMEA that is planned over the next few years, with a strong initial focus on Germany.

You will be primarily responsible for providing Finance support to the day-to-day activities of the VIRTUS team working to advance our first German data centre site developments in Germany, which are located in Berlin.

This will include managing all purchase requisitions and purchase orders, preparing and posting journals for payroll, monitoring actual expenditure and preparing and presenting analysis to compare this against budgets, preparing and posting month-end accounting adjustments for accruals and prepayments, and other general management accounting tasks.

Bookkeeping and financial reporting activities are currently outsourced, but the intention is to bring this in-house for our German entities (currently there are 5 companies incorporated in Germany) as part of the Finance Manager's responsibilities.

As part of this in-housing process the Finance Manager will also play an important role in migrating existing and future German companies onto the SAP ERP platform that has recently been implemented for the VIRTUS Group.

The role will report into our UK-based Group Finance Manager who has oversight of all day-to-day accounting processes across the business.

It is anticipated that in due course you will also help to develop a larger Finance team for Germany as our operations there grow and mature.

If you are a well-organised, detail-oriented, analytical and collaborative Finance professional with a strong background in management accounting and use of SAP, we encourage you to apply and play a key part in the successful expansion of VIRTUS into Europe.

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