Finance Director

Finance Director

Location: We would consider any Frazer-Nash office for the right candidate.

Working Pattern: We operate a flexible hybrid working pattern at Frazer-Nash, with time split between the office, client sites and working from home.

Closing date: 21st September 2026.

Frazer-Nash Consultancy, part of KBR Frazer-Nash Consultancy is looking for an experienced Finance Director to join our Senior Leadership Team and help shape the future of one of the UK's leading engineering and technology consultancies. Reporting to the KBR CFO and Frazer-Nash Consultancy Managing Director, this is a key leadership role with responsibility extending far beyond traditional financial stewardship. As a trusted adviser to the Managing Director and Senior Leadership Team, you will play a central role in improving commercial performance, informing strategic decisions, supporting growth and ensuring long-term value creation. You will provide forward-looking financial and commercial insight, helping the business navigate complexity, assess strategic opportunities and make informed decisions that balance growth, profitability and risk.

The Opportunity

This role combines strategic leadership, commercial excellence and financial governance. You will partner closely with senior leaders across the business to improve performance, support transformation and help deliver our future growth plans as part of KBR.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Helping define business strategy as a key member of the Senior Leadership Team.
• Improving commercial performance, profitability, utilisation and cash generation.
• Overseeing financial planning, forecasting, and business performance management.
• Evaluating strategic investments, partnerships and acquisition opportunities.
• Supporting major commercial decisions, contract negotiations and bid governance activities.
• Providing leadership in enterprise risk management, governance and compliance.
• Supporting organisational transformation, including digital enablement, AI adoption and business improvement initiatives.
• Overseeing the growth and development of finance, FP&A, and procurement teams.
• Ensuring robust financial controls, reporting and compliance within a KBR environment.

What We're Looking For

We're seeking a commercially experienced and strategically minded finance leader who can work effectively with senior leaders across the organisation while maintaining sound financial discipline and governance. You’ll bring:

• A recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Significant experience at Finance Director, CFO or equivalent senior finance leadership level.
• A proven track record of influencing business strategy and executive decision-making.
• Extensive commercial leadership experience within professional services, consultancy, engineering or other project-based environments.
• Demonstrable achievement in growing business performance, profitability improvement, and sustainable growth.
• Experience presenting to Boards, Executive Leadership Teams and senior stakeholders.
• Effective stakeholder management, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• A commitment to growing skilled teams and advancing commercial capability across the organisation.
• Experience within consulting, engineering, defence, nuclear, aerospace, infrastructure or other knowledge-intensive sectors would be beneficial, as would experience of M&A, integration activity or operating within a matrixed, multinational organisation.

Due to the nature of the work that Frazer-Nash Consultancy undertake, candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment screening and must be able to satisfy clearance criteria for UK National Security Vetting.

Why Join Us?

Frazer-Nash Consultancy is a business built on solving some of society's most complex engineering, technology and safety challenges. As part of KBR, we combine the skills and agility of a specialist consultancy with the scale and opportunities of a global organisation. This is a unique opportunity to shape the strategic direction of a highly regarded business, oversee an essential function, and contribute to sustainable growth and enduring value. If you're a strategic finance leader looking to make a lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you.

About Frazer-Nash

Frazer-Nash is a leading systems, engineering and technology company. We help organisations deliver innovative engineering and technology solutions to make lives safe, secure, sustainable, and affordable. With over 1000 employees, we work from a network of nine UK and four Australian locations. Our people apply their expertise to develop, enhance and protect our clients' critical assets, systems and processes. We use our skills and talents to ensure a sustainable future for society. Our work helps deliver a safe and secure world, where natural resources are conserved, and clean energy is available to all. And we focus on actions to reduce climate change; supporting rapid and far-reaching transformations in the delivery of energy, security, industry, and transport.

At the heart of our business are a set of self-defined core values. These are part of our DNA and we’re committed to upholding them – internally as part of our Frazer-Nash family; in the way we work with our customers; and when we engage with the wider world.

• We care At Frazer-Nash, we care about each other; always looking to collaborate and see things from the other person’s point of view. We offer mutual support, learn from one another, and work as a team to deliver the best results. Everyone has a voice, and we all make the time to listen.
• We will work with openness and collaborate effectively – thinking about our clients and our people, and responding to their needs. We care about the difference we make to the wider world.
• We are trusted Effective collaboration is founded upon trust. We earn the trust of our customers and colleagues by delivering on the commitments we have made to them.
• We deliver success We deliver value and success to our customers and to our business. We continually strive to be the best at what we do.
• We want to do things that matter. We seek out interesting and satisfying work that helps makes a difference in society.
• We use our expertise to provide trusted, impartial professional advice to our clients. By making a difference to today, we benefit the world of tomorrow – so we can all go home each day knowing that we’ve done something that really mattered.