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, reporting, working capital management), tactical solutions progressing to enduring scaled up solutions Drive transaction processing efficiency through system improvements and automation Develop and implement "Finance Essentials" programme of finance education across the business (in collaboration with People & Culture Learning & Development team) Support year end Working Capital management to deliver year end cash target Absorb Accounts Payable team into existing Order 2 Cash team Report 2 Control: Efficient production of audited Regulated Accounts and support for Adjudicator clearance process Deliver efficient and effective audits Build compliance team experience and confidence Implement Caseware software to support statutory account production for YE Jun-25 Reporting,enablement & CI: Implement new ways of working to support "Tech24" reorganisation and move to agile product based cross-functional team working, Finance demand "front door" / interface with Digital Enablement team Reporting platform development including migration from QlikSense to cloud based QlikSAAS platform for finance dashboards and reporting Drive continued data quality improvements (both finance data and business data driving transactions / accounting) Rebalance central projects team capabilities to fit with requirements of new "ways of working" / Enablement support and Digital Enterprise interface Finance Systems: Stable delivery of finance systems for month end processes and financial planning cycles, including configuration for FY26 Continued focus on improving Finance system performance and stability, supporting development of Digital Finance / IT roadmap Tax and Pension FY24 Corporation Tax and VAT return completion R&D expenditure credit claim Legal entity restructuring (25 UK and 2 overseas entity strike-off / liquidation by Jun-25) UK transfer pricing and inter-co balance rationalisation Tax and legal entity structuring support for any commercial international expansion required Programme manage defined benefit pension plan agenda, instructing and guiding external advisors (escrow unwind / PCST implementation / agenda buy-in completion / enhanced redundancy alternative provision / buy-out / wind up Please apply to the advert for more information. Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.