At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead finance operations, drive performance, and shape commercial decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Company: Dynamic business in Reading with a focus on growth and innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, flexible working, and opportunity to make a real impact.
- Other info: Fast-paced role with opportunities for professional growth in a high-energy environment.
- Why this job: Join a brilliant team and influence key financial strategies while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: ACA qualified with experience in commercial finance and strong leadership abilities.
Reading | 3 days per week in the office | £700 - £800 per day | 4-6 Months
We are working with a brilliant, fast-paced business in Reading to find an Interim Finance Director.
Great business. Great people. Lots going on.
We're looking for someone who can come in, get up to speed quickly and sit right at the heart of the business, helping drive performance and keep things moving.
This is a broad
Finance Director role with a big commercial focus .
We ideally want someone with a strong technical grounding who understands financial control inside out, but whose career has developed into
Commercial Finance, FP&A and Business Partnering .
You'll own and lead Finance, while driving commercial performance, decision-making and transformation across the business.
What will you be doing?
- Partnering senior leadership and helping shape commercial and operational decisions
- Leading budgeting, forecasting and longer-term planning
- Driving performance across revenue, margin, costs, cash and working capital
- Bringing stronger insight around profitability, performance, risks and opportunities
- Supporting pricing, investment decisions, business cases and transformation
- Improving reporting and making sure Finance tells the story behind the numbers
- Challenging the business and turning financial insight into action
- Maintaining strong controls, reporting and governance
- Improving finance processes, systems and ways of working
- Leading and developing the Finance team
Who are we looking for?
Ideally
ACA qualified with a strong technical grounding .
- You may have started your career in audit before moving through
- Financial Control / Group Finance , and then into
Commercial Finance, FP&A or broader Finance Director roles .
You'll still understand the detail. Controls, reporting, cash and governance won't scare you.
But today, your real strengths are commercial finance, leadership and getting things done .
We need someone who is commercial, naturally curious, fast-paced and brilliant with people.
Someone confident challenging senior stakeholders, comfortable with change and able to quickly understand what's happening under the bonnet.
You'll already be operating at
Finance Director, Commercial Finance Director or senior Head of Finance level , with the experience and confidence to hit the ground running.
Experience in a high-growth, PE-backed or listed environment would be particularly interesting.
This needs someone with energy.
Someone who can move between the numbers, the people and the commercial decisions without missing a beat.
£700 - £800 per day. 4-6 months. Reading. 3 days per week in the office.
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Interim Finance Director in Reading employer: We Do Group
We Do Group is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation within the education sector. Employees benefit from comprehensive professional development opportunities and a supportive environment that values organisational change, making it an ideal place for those looking to make a meaningful impact in HR transformation.
