Finance Director - £20m+ t/o, exit or acquisition experience

This Finance Director vacancy is a senior role for an excellent finance person with strong commercial experience. Key points are that it is a strategic role, focusing on change implementation over the next 3-5 years to help the business through the next positive phase of their development, as well as all the standard FD activities. There will be a specific interest in you helping to guide through ownership change, so previous exit or acquisition experience is important.

The role is a key role within the business, working in very close partnership with the MD. Specific responsibilities include the following:

• Work with senior team members to navigate positive change in the coming years. This will involve diversifying into different business areas and investment of spare capital.
• Examining all aspects of the business using analytical skills and asking the right questions to make both profit and cost centres more efficient.
• Creating fresh dashboard information to help non-finance managers.
• Preparation and submission of monthly and annual accounts.
• Formulation and presentation of annual budgets and targets.
• Review of accounts and investigation of variances then setting recovery plans.
• Assist with investment decisions.
• Overall control of all financial transactions and accountancy matters, including audit systems.
• Ensure effective credit control procedures are in force.
• Capital expenditure evaluation and preparation of submissions.
• Insurance and risk management.
• Overall cash management.
• Assist in setting annual cost rates and prices for customers.
• Close involvement in commercial negotiations with customers.
• Ensuring that the regulatory requirements of all statutory bodies are met.
• Liaise with external accountants over tax computations.

The ideal candidate: This is a very commercially focused role; it is not a dry accountancy role, so to be successful you will need to demonstrate a strong commercial capability within a diverse business. It is important that you will have experience of exit or acquisition. You will need to be a person of genuine integrity; this business is successful and profitable with sound underlying practices, built with passion by an excellent long-standing team, and trust/integrity is very important to the business owners. The role will include an interesting balance of driving change as well as management of the status quo, and it is important that this is a long-term role, suited to an applicant that is focused on the long term.

As we are expecting a high volume of applications for this role, we will unfortunately not be able to respond to individual applications. Instead, we will contact those that we are able to progress to the next stage of the process by telephone within 7 days of application. If you do not hear from us in this time, you have unfortunately been unsuccessful on this occasion.