Finance Lead

Finance Lead

The Finance Lead is a hands‑on role combining ownership of core financial processes, including month‑end and reporting, with responsibility for delivering key financial initiatives across the group. The role balances BAU accountability with project delivery, ensuring that financial operations run effectively today while also driving improvements in how finance operates.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver financial projects end‑to‑end, including scoping, planning, execution and embedding outcomes into the business
• Drive improvements to financial processes, ensuring greater efficiency, accuracy and consistency across the group
• Collaborate with stakeholders across finance and the wider business to successfully implement change
• Maintain and strengthen financial controls, ensuring issues are identified, resolved and processes are well documented
• Influence and align stakeholders without formal line management responsibility
• Take a hands‑on approach to delivery, building, fixing and implementing solutions directly where needed
• Apply strong financial insight to projects, ensuring a clear understanding of how financial outputs are generated
• Own and oversee month‑end ensuring accuracy, timeliness and control
• Balance BAU delivery with project work, maintaining high‑quality financial outputs while driving change
• Enhance month‑end and reporting processes, improving efficiency and robustness

Qualifications

• Strong grounding in core finance principles, with solid financial reporting experience
• Proven experience delivering finance or business change projects
• Demonstrated ability to improve financial processes, systems or controls
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels
• Self‑sufficient, delivery‑focused and comfortable working without direct team management
• Willingness to take ownership and adopt a hands‑up‑your‑sleeves approach

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