Finance Interim recruitment brief
Group Finance Director
Experienced interim GFD required to provide backfill, enabling Acting CFO position from Mar-25
GFD cover period TBC (c6-12 months (Apr-25 to Sep-25)
Direct report of Acting CFO; member of the Leadership Group and member of the Finance & Procurement Leadership Team
6 direct reports: 4 Heads of Finance, 1 Finance Systems Manager, 1 Personal Assistant
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)
Group FinanceH2FY25 priorities: Finance Transaction Services: Onboarding of new water customer contracts (transacting, accounting, repo...