Finance Director
Location: London
Salary: £140,000 to £170,000 + bonus (DOE)
Hybrid: Yes
About the Company
We are proud to be partnering with an established and growing hospitality group with a strong reputation for quality, innovation and customer experience.
With a diverse portfolio of businesses, a complex multi entity structure and continued growth across the UK and internationally, the organisation is strengthening its senior finance leadership.
They are now looking to appoint a Finance Director to take senior ownership of financial control, reporting, governance and finance infrastructure across the Group.
This is a technically led role for someone with the experience and judgement to operate effectively across a complex, fast moving and entrepreneurial organisation, while working closely with an experienced senior leadership team as a senior finance voice within the business.
Job Requirements
As a Finance Director, you will:
- Take senior ownership of Group financial reporting and consolidation across a complex multi entity structure
- Ensure accurate and timely delivery of the Group P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, with strong oversight of the underlying financial control environment
- Maintain a clean and well governed balance sheet across all entities, ensuring reconciliations, intercompany balances and key accounting schedules are appropriately controlled
- Own Group accounting policy and provide senior technical judgement across complex accounting matters
- Lead the Group statutory audit process from planning through to completion, ensuring accounts are delivered accurately and on time
- Take ownership of the Group tax position, working closely with external advisers across corporate tax, VAT, employment taxes and international requirements
- Ensure strong financial governance, controls and compliance are maintained across all entities and jurisdictions
- Oversee Group treasury, liquidity and cash management, ensuring appropriate visibility over working capital and funding requirements
- Maintain oversight of intercompany funding, banking structures, payment controls and cash movements across the Group
- Support the financial infrastructure required for continued international expansion, including new entities, multi currency reporting, tax, audit, banking and financial controls
- Ensure appropriate finance processes and controls are established as new territories and operations are launched
- Maintain oversight of Group structure and statutory governance, including incorporations, intercompany arrangements and entity management
- Work closely with senior leadership to ensure financial risks are clearly understood and appropriately managed
- Provide constructive challenge and technical guidance to senior stakeholders where required
- Lead and develop senior members of the finance team, setting clear standards around financial control, reporting and accountability
- Manage key external finance relationships including auditors, tax advisers, banks and other professional partners
- Drive continuous improvement across financial reporting, controls, systems, processes and data quality
- Ensure the finance environment continues to scale effectively alongside the growth and increasing complexity of the organisation
Key Person Requirements
- A qualified accountant, ACA, ACCA or CIMA, with significant post qualified experience operating within technically strong finance environments
- Currently operating as a Finance Director, Group Financial Controller, Director of Finance or in a comparable senior finance leadership position
- Demonstrable experience leading financial control, Group consolidation, financial reporting and balance sheet governance across complex multi entity and multi site organisations
- Experience within hospitality, retail, leisure, consumer or another operationally complex environment
- Demonstrable ownership of statutory audit, financial controls and year end reporting
- Strong understanding of corporate tax, VAT and broader financial compliance, with the ability to effectively manage and challenge external advisers
- Hands on experience of treasury, cash management, intercompany and Group structures
- Experience operating within an international or multi currency environment
- Technically strong and control minded, with the ability to remain close to the detail while operating at senior leadership level
- Confident managing senior stakeholders and able to provide credible challenge in a fast moving and entrepreneurial environment
- Strong leadership capability, with experience developing high performing finance teams and raising standards across a function
- Pragmatic, resilient and delivery focused, with the ability to introduce rigour and structure without unnecessarily slowing the pace of the business
If you are looking for a broad and highly visible Finance Director role where you can take ownership of financial control across a complex, growing and increasingly international business, while working closely with an experienced senior leadership team, we would love to hear from you.
Please submit your CV for immediate consideration.
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