Finance Director
Help Build the Future of St Ewe
This isn't just another Finance Director role.
It's an opportunity to help shape the future of one of the UK's most distinctive and exciting food businesses.
At St Ewe, we've spent years challenging convention, pushing boundaries, and proving that eggs can be so much more than a commodity. Today, we're a multi-award-winning, family-run B Corp business supplying major retailers, foodservice partners, and chefs across the UK.
But we're only just getting started.
Our Purpose
We strive to crack open the power and potential of every egg.
Our 2030 Mission
To build the UK's most distinctive and trusted egg brand, known for exceptional quality, strong farming partnerships and leading the future of eggs. £150m+ sales.
To help us get there, we're looking for an exceptional Finance Director.
Not someone who simply reports the numbers.
We're looking for someone who helps shape the future.
A strategic finance leader who can support rapid growth, challenge thinking, strengthen capability and ensure we have the financial foundations, systems and insights needed to deliver our ambitions.
You'll lead our finance and IT teams, play a key role in major transformation programmes, including our ERP implementation, and help steer critical decisions around investment, cash, funding, profitability, and future growth opportunities.
Working closely with our Executive Team and Board, you'll be a trusted partner in delivering our long-term strategy while ensuring we never lose sight of what makes St Ewe special.
You'll thrive here if you:
Love building and scaling high-growth businesses
Are commercially sharp and strategically minded
Enjoy leading teams through growth and transformation
Understand how great systems, data and technology enable success
Can balance ambition with financial discipline
Believe business can be a force for good
Want to leave a lasting legacy, not simply manage the status quo
Experience within a high-growth FMCG environment and exposure to funding, major capital investment, business transformation, and M&A activity would be advantageous.
Our Values
Bold. Nurturing. Positive. Transparent.
These aren't words on a wall. They shape every decision we make — from how we support our people and farmers to how we care for our hens, customers, and communities.
As a certified B Corp, we're committed to building a business that delivers for people, planet and profit.
"We're looking for someone who shares our ambition, our values and our belief that business can be a force for good. This role is about helping us build the financial, technological and operational foundations that will support the next phase of our growth journey."
Why this role?
Because opportunities like this don't come around often.
You'll join a business with ambitious plans, incredible momentum, and a genuinely special culture.
A place where you'll influence strategy, lead transformation, develop talented teams and help build one of the UK's most loved and trusted food brands.
Growth matters.
People matter more.
If you're excited by purpose, growth, and the opportunity to help shape what's next, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties and responsibilities
Strategic Financial Leadership
Lead the development and execution of the organisation’s financial strategy aligned to corporate objectives.
Act as a strategic advisor to the Board and Executive Team on financial planning, investment decisions, and commercial performance.
Provide clear insight and analysis on performance, identifying opportunities for growth initiatives including pricing, margin optimisation, and route-to-market expansion.
Support business cases for capital investment, acquisitions, or major strategic initiatives.
Drive Commercial Performance
Act as a key business partner to sales, marketing, operations, and supply chain teams.
Provide actionable insight on product profitability, customer performance, and cost drivers.
Lead pricing strategy and promotional analysis within an FMCG context.
Support negotiations with key retail and foodservice customers.
Operational Efficiency & Performance Management
Drive operational efficiency by partnering closely with operations to identify inefficiencies, streamline processes, and optimise costs and margins across the business.
Build and enhance dashboards, reporting tools, and analytics to give real-time visibility of key financial and commercial metrics.
Financial Management & Control
Ensure the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting, management accounts, and statutory accounts.
Manage external audit process and relationships with auditors, tax advisors, banks, and other financial stakeholders.
Ensure robust financial governance, compliance, and risk management frameworks are in place.
Ensure strong cashflow management and working capital optimisation.
Risk Management
Lead the development and oversight of the organisation’s financial risk management framework.
Identify, assess, and mitigate financial, operational, and strategic risks.
Oversee treasury management, funding arrangements, and covenant compliance.
IT & Systems/Process Improvement
Support the IT strategy, ensuring systems and infrastructure support a scaling, multi-channel FMCG business.
Ensure robust data governance, cybersecurity and IT infrastructure.
Review and enhance systems, reporting tools, and data integrity.
Lead system improvement initiatives (ERP optimisation, automation, BI reporting).
Drive process efficiencies within the finance function to support scalability.
Leadership & Team Development
Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing finance team.
Build capability to support a larger, more complex business.
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and commercial awareness.
Experience/knowledge
Essential Experience
Proven experience operating at Finance Director or senior finance leadership level in a £100m+ turnover organisation.
Strong FMCG experience is essential, ideally within branded or fresh food categories.
Demonstrable experience in strategic financial planning and commercial decision support.
Experience of supporting high-growth businesses is desirable.
Skills & Competencies
Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
Strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen.
Ability to translate financial data into clear business insight and actions.
Hands-on, pragmatic approach with attention to detail.
Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills
Benefits
7% employer pension contributions
Private medical insurance (family cover)
3x salary life assurance
Free eggs!
Team days
33 days annual leave (increases in line with service)
Contact Details:
ST EWE FREE RANGE EGGS LIMITED Recruitment Team
