Finance Interim recruitment brief
Group Finance Director
1. Experienced interim GFD required to provide backfill, enabling Acting CFO position from Mar-25
2. GFD cover period TBC (c6-12 months (Apr-25 to Sep-25)
3. Direct report of Acting CFO; member of the Leadership Group and member of the Finance & Procurement Leadership Team
4. 6 direct reports: 4 Heads of Finance, 1 Finance Systems Manager, 1 Personal Assistant
5. Leadership of c40FTE across the following teams:
* Financial Transaction Services team, covering: Billing; Credit Control; Cashiers and Accounts Payable / Purchasing Solutions
* Report to Control team, covering: Management Accounts; Financial Compliance & Control (external financial reporting, technical accounting, balance sheet control, Regulatory accounting, external audit management)
* Reporting, Enablement and Continuous Improvement (CI), covering: Finance reporting system & dashboard development; project accounting & business partnering to project delivery teams; capex reporting, forecasting & governance and leadership of cross-finance CI community. Also manages property payables team
* Finance Systems team: managing Oracle ERP finance modules and interfaces (2 FTE)
6. Group FinanceH2FY25 priorities:
7. Finance Transaction Services:
8. Onboarding of new water customer contracts (transacting, accounting, repo...