- Number one in finance role for a first-time Finance Director
- £80,000 plus car allowance, 15% bonus, private healthcare
- Based in Solihull, West Midlands (50% office, 50% home-based)
Finance Director required for an incredible family-run professional services group headquartered out of Solihull, West Midlands.
This is a really interesting privately-owned business operating globally, that is looking to sophisticate its senior leadership team and bring in its first Finance Director. This will be a strong Financial Controller or Head of Finance looking to enter their first FD role, and you’ll be reporting directly to the owners.
As the Finance Director, you will be responsible for:
- Creation of the global organisation’s business plan and implementing financial and operational strategy
- Delivery of monthly financials and explaining financial position to the senior leadership team, acting as a true business partner to the executive directorate
- Leading annual budgeting, forecasting and cash planning procedures
- Overseeing the finance function, including a Financial Controller, Finance Manager and reporting team
- Leading financial reporting and treasury functions, including the multicurrency consolidation requirements
- Supervising the creation of statutory accounts and strong internal controls, supported by the Financial Controller
- Ensuring regulatory reporting compliance across the global group, adhering to local reporting and tax regulations
- Acting as a key point of contact to the group’s client base for financial matters
- Fostering an environment focused on process improvement and strong controls
- Enhancing the finance function’s use of the ERP system and producing stronger financial insight with the toolkit available
- Management of the finance function’s payroll, AP and AR responsibilities
- Creation of a world class finance function, including future recruitment and development of the growing team
This role will see you supporting a well-established, but growing, global business. You’ll be based on a hybrid basis in Solihull, acting autonomously and helping the owners to enact their vision.
The ideal candidate for this role must:
- be a qualified accountant (ICAEW, ICAS, ACCA or CIMA);
- have experience as Head of Finance or Financial Controller;
- have worked in a fast-paced SME environment;
- have people management experience;
- be an excellent business partner to the senior leadership team.
It would also be advantageous (but not essential) to have:
- experience working within professional services or a fee-earning business;
- experience transforming existing finance teams, and recruiting to build a world class finance function;
- experience within multicurrency environments;
- experience utilising powerful business intelligence tools to support strategic decision-making.
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