Finance Director - H Squared Talent Ltd : Job Details

• Annual bonus
• Flexible hours
• Pension, healthcare, and life assurance scheme

Are you looking for an opportunity to be number one in finance within a manufacturing business? This is a growing company that make complex and varied products, and they’re looking for someone who can become part of their senior leadership team and hold responsibility for all financial aspects of the strategy. They have been steadily growing and are investing to support that growth, and they need your commercial insight to help make this happen.

You will be investigating, summarising, reporting on, and recommending how to improve what they are doing. You will lead the finance team and provide a high-quality service to all stakeholders.

This would be a great role for an experienced Head of Finance looking for a challenge: there is a lot of improvement work to be done and many challenges to overcome.

You will report to the MD and be responsible for:

• Ensuring company financial systems are robust and compliant, as well as supporting future business growth.
• Strategising, analysing and managing, ensuring finance are involved in key business decisions as part of the senior leadership team.
• Managing the company’s accounting function, including the creation of financial reporting packs with analysis, statutory accounts, and presenting annual accounts to the Board.
• Leading financial forecasting processes.
• Providing commercial finance support to the wider management teams, including things such as margin analysis, pricing strategy, and reviewing stock provisioning policies.

The Candidate: Finance Director

The ideal candidate will be an experienced accountant who likes to take a hands-on approach to all company finance matters and will also have the following:

• Experienced in financial management within a manufacturing environment.
• Fully Qualified ACCA / CIMA / ACA;
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence at all levels;
• A self-motivated, strategic thinker.
• Passionate about continuous improvement and digitisation.