Finance Director in Belfast

Artemis Executive Search has been successfully retained by a high-growth, private equity-backed business with operations spanning Northern Ireland, as they seek to appoint an experienced Finance Director to play a pivotal role in the next phase of their growth journey. This is a senior leadership role, reporting to the Managing Director and Board, with full responsibility for the finance function and a clear mandate to strengthen reporting, governance and decision support within a fast-scaling, investor-backed environment.

The Finance Director will play a central role in driving financial strategy, supporting significant capital investment and leading an active acquisition programme over the coming years. Key responsibilities will include:

• Leading the company’s end-to-end finance and reporting processes, ensuring accuracy, control and timeliness.
• Full ownership of cash flow management, treasury and liquidity planning, including downside, covenant and scenario modelling.
• Leading a large-scale, multi-year capital investment programme, overseeing a significant CAPEX spend over a three-year period, from investment appraisal and funding strategy through to delivery, monitoring and post-investment review.
• Leading the financial execution of a multi-acquisition strategy over the next four years, including acquisition modelling, valuation, due diligence, deal execution and post-acquisition integration.
• Playing a central role in the approval, governance and ongoing evaluation of all material capital investment and acquisition activity, ensuring returns are delivered in line with the investment case.
• Developing and implementing financial strategies that support the wider growth and private equity value-creation agenda.
• Further developing the company’s Business Intelligence and analytics capability, extracting meaningful insights to drive efficiency, performance improvement and commercial opportunity.
• Ownership of the annual budgeting process, rolling forecasts, monthly management accounts and statutory financial statements.
• Communicating financial performance against budget, CAPEX and M&A plans to senior management, the Board and PE stakeholders.
• Continuing to build, mentor and develop the finance team, creating a scalable, high-performing finance function.
• Responsibility for insurance, risk management and internal controls, working with external advisers as required.
• Oversight of all taxation governance and compliance, including corporation tax, VAT and related obligations.
• Planning and leading the annual audit process, acting as the primary point of contact for external auditors.

The Person

We are seeking a commercially minded finance leader with strong experience in PE-backed or investor-led environments. You will bring:

• A professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insight.
• Proven experience operating as a Finance Director/CFO within a business with turnover in excess of £30m.
• Demonstrable experience planning, evaluating and managing large capital investment projects.
• Prior experience reporting to an external board, ideally within a private equity or infrastructure-backed business.
• Strong proficiency in financial systems, BI tools and reporting platforms.
• Excellent people leadership and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams.

Next steps: To hear more and be provided with a full candidate pack get in touch with Adam Myles.