Join a Rapidly Growing Financial Services Business as a Group Finance Director!
Are you an experienced finance professional eager to take on a dynamic role in a fast-paced environment? We are looking for a Group Financial Director to join our client and play a pivotal role in shaping the financial future of their business.
About the Role:
Reporting directly to the CEO (with a dotted line to the private equity Group CFO), this hybrid role is based at any of our client's East Midland offices. This is a hybrid role with an expectation of 2 days on site.
As Group Finance Director, you will oversee all aspects of financial operations across our client's group companies, supporting strategic decision-making, managing transactions, and ensuring compliance. You'll also take the lead in budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and supporting M&A activities. With a number of M&As planned over the coming 12 months, our client needs someone who has been there and done it.
Once on board, you will be given the budget and support in growing out your team to ensure it can deliver what the business needs, enabling you to take on the day-to-day management of M&A while also managing the BAU needs of the business.
You will be a numbers person but with experience working within a people-centric business. You bring a fine balance between people and numbers, with a leadership style that creates followship and galvanizes teams.
What You'll Do:
* Board and management reporting, analysis, and presentation of results to the leadership team.
* Provide commercial and strategic support and decision-making across all business services, looking at new areas of growth.
* Partnering with the CEO and the leaders of key functions including Operations, Marketing, and HR to support growth and provide challenge and support where necessary.
* Managing and developing the day-to-day finance function.
* Ensure finance reporting is best in class, fully compliant, and provides meaningful commentary for senior leadership.
* Look to further develop the KPI reporting and produce comprehensive financial analysis, identifying trends, opportunities, and risks to drive informed business decisions.
* Supporting acquisitions and integrations.
* Overall responsibility for statutory reporting and tax compliance.
* Ensuring strong governance, control, and processes, looking to minimize risk.
* Ensuring the finance function meets Group and investor reporting requirements.
* Leading and managing the budgeting and forecasting process.
* Oversight of accounts payable and accounts receivable, ensuring robust cash control and risk management.
What You Bring:
* You will be fully qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification).
* You may know your numbers, but it's key that you are an exceptional, influential leader.
* Experience of working within a growth organization, ideally with exposure to M&A.
* Experience within people-centric businesses would be advantageous.
* Ability to build an outstanding finance function by developing an outstanding team.
* Track record of partnering and supporting key stakeholders.
* Hands-on, roll your sleeves up approach.
* Inquisitive and track record of problem-solving, identifying and delivering tangible improvements.
* Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly.
* Proven experience in group-wide financial control.
* Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
Salary & Benefits:
* Competitive salary: £100,000 - £125,000 (depending on experience).
* Hybrid working model for work-life balance.
* Be part of an ambitious, forward-thinking company.
* LTIP.
* A long with a whole host of other benefits!
If you thrive in a collaborative environment and are ready to make a real impact on our business, we’d love to hear from you!
We look forward to receiving your application! (Alternatively, if you would like to reach out for a confidential chat then please email Natasha.Neller@vibright.consulting to arrange a call.)
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