At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead financial strategy, drive profitability, and support growth initiatives in a dynamic environment.
- Company: Join a growing, ambitious business with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and the chance to influence key commercial decisions.
- Other info: Opportunity to mentor a finance team and foster a high-performance culture.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by combining hands-on finance leadership with strategic influence.
- Qualifications: Qualified accountant with strong commercial finance experience and excellent stakeholder management skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
We are partnering with a growing, ambitious business to appoint a commercially minded Head of Finance. Reporting directly to the CEO, this is a strategic leadership role where you'll move beyond traditional finance reporting to influence key commercial decisions, drive profitability, improve cash generation, and support future growth initiatives. This opportunity would suit a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with strong commercial finance experience, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a track record of partnering with senior leadership teams to deliver business growth. Ideal for someone who enjoys combining hands-on financial leadership with strategic commercial influence in a dynamic, evolving environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a key finance partner to the senior leadership team, bringing insight, challenge and commercial rigour to key decisions.
- Develop and maintain financial models covering revenue scenarios, pricing, product mix, margin, cash flow and return on investment.
- Lead the annual budgeting and forecasting process, working closely with the Head of Commercial.
- Translate financial performance into clear, actionable insight that supports better pricing, investment and operational decisions.
- Identify and drive opportunities to improve gross margin, net margin and cash generation across the business, tracking delivery against targets.
- Lead financial evaluation, modelling and commercial analysis of strategic investment and growth opportunities.
- Own the monthly management accounts and board pack, including meaningful commentary and variance analysis.
- Maintain and improve financial controls.
- Oversee preparation of annual statutory accounts, tax calculations and all regulatory and company obligations.
- Ensure expenditure is tracked against budgets and that the business operates within agreed financial parameters.
- Maintain and improve business process documentation across the finance function.
- Oversee VAT, ITIP/NIC, employer returns and all statutory submissions.
- Lead, mentor and develop the finance team creating clear development plans to support individual progress and succession.
- Support the team in delivering on operational objectives efficiently and effectively.
- Foster a high-performance culture rooted in accuracy, ownership and continuous improvement.
- Oversee the customer billing process, proactively resolving internal and external billing queries.
- Take an active role in the billing platform transition, ensuring financial integrity throughout the migration.
- Oversee debt collection procedures, ensuring aged debt is actively managed and minimised.
- Build strong working relationships across the business, acting as a trusted finance partner to Sales, Operations and the wider leadership team.
- Present financial performance, commercial insight and forward-looking analysis to the CEO and Board in a clear, accessible way.
- Manage relationships with external auditors, banks, accountants and other financial advisors.
Key Skills and Experience
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
- Strong commercial finance experience within an SME or growth business.
- Demonstrable experience in financial modelling, forecasting and scenario planning.
- Track record of business partnering with a leadership team and influencing decisions.
- Experience leading and developing a finance team.
- Experience mentoring and developing team members through professional qualifications as well would be desirable.
- Experience in a telco, MSP, ISP or recurring revenue business would be desirable.
- Ideally, experience managing billing systems or billing platform transitions.
- Strong analytical capability with confidence using financial systems.
- Excellent communication skills, able to translate financial information into clear insight.
Head of Finance in Douglas employer: Search-Select LTD
Search-Select LTD is an excellent employer, offering a dynamic work environment on the Isle of Man where compliance and risk management are at the forefront of business operations. With a strong focus on employee growth and development, we provide opportunities for professional advancement while fostering a collaborative culture that values integrity and innovation. Join us to make a meaningful impact in a thriving industry and enjoy the unique advantages of working in a picturesque location.
