Job Title: Group Finance Director
Location: Weybridge (Mainly office based with some hybrid working flexibility)
Salary: Competitive + excellent bonus opportunity and LTIP
Alexander Lloyd Executive Search are delighted to be retained to hire a Group Finance Director for a high scale manufacturing/construction organisation based in Surrey.
Reporting directly into the Managing Director this role will play a pivotal role in not just leading the finance team day to day but also acting as a true business partner to the Managing Director, you will be supporting in key strategic decision making whilst the organisation is on an exciting high scale growth journey, this may also involve acquisitions down the line where the Group Finance Director will play a pivotal role alongside the Managing Director.
As Group Finance Director, you will oversee the entire finance function, ensuring robust financial control, compliance, and strategic decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting across multiple business units.
* Ensure strong financial controls, compliance with IFRS/GAAP and risk management.
* Oversee cash flow, working capital, and cost control strategies.
* Drive profitability and efficiency in project costing and financial reporting.
* Manage relationships with investors, banks, and external auditors.
* Develop and implement financial strategies to support company growth
* Previous acquisition experience would also be of keen interest
* Lead and mentor a high-performing finance team.
Candidate Requirements:
* Qualifications: ACA, ACCA, CIMA with a number of years PQE.
* Experience: Previous experience operating at FD/CFO level role
* Sector: Construction/Manufacturing sector experience would be desirable within a high growth/Scale up SME ideally.
* Strong knowledge of, project accounting, and contract management and revenue recognition would also be advantageous
* European/International entity experience: Multi-currency, and US reporting exposure would be of keen interest.
* Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Please quote 51416 when you email your CV to John Richardson jri@alexanderlloyd.co.uk, alongside sending your Cv you are welcome to expand on the key candidate criteria above to enable a quicker shortlisting process as we are expecting lots of interest in this opportunity. This is only one of many vacancies we are handling. Alexander Lloyd Executive Search works on a retained basis hiring across C- Suite and senior finance appointments within the UK and Internationally.
Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants you have not been short listed for this role. Please continue to check our website for any other roles which may be of interest.