Finance Director
Permanent
Job Description
- Responsible for managing the global finance team and taking overall responsibility for the Board finance pack and presenting to the board.
- To work closely with the Board to formulate financial strategy to include responsibility for budgets and forecasts.
- To challenge performance and identify internal and external development opportunities.
- To take responsibility for financial corporate governance and monitoring financial controls and KPI's.
- To work with the Board and Leadership Team on organic growth, improving profitability, bids and tender opportunities.
- Accountable for the finance function and processes, including management reporting, credit control, cash, payroll, accounts payable and accounts receivable processes.
- Leadership role in the process to raise investment capital as needed.
- To play a lead role as a director to challenge performance and identify development opportunities.
- Own the financial processes, procedures and controls to ensure safeguarding of company assets and accuracy of financial systems.
- Implementing corporate governance procedures, risk management and internal controls.
- Implement appropriate systems and controls, creating a performance improvement culture.
- Prepare and file statutory accounts, acting as main point of contact for auditors.
- Drive financial knowledge and discipline into the Group organization
- Develop and provide business performance reports that enable business improvement
- Manage key financial relationships - bank, auditors, government
- Manage Group tax and regulatory compliance
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA), who can demonstrate progression through to a similar level of leadership, at either FC or FD level working with Boards and senior leaders
- Experience at FD/FC level in a fast-paced growth organization that has scaled, preferably in the SaaS/ tech/ business outsourcing sector
- Experience of leading and coaching a remote team to success
- Global experience in a senior finance role, to include strong experience in the US in addition to the UK
- Experience leading business transformation/change programmes, including systems integration
- Experience of investor funding initiatives
- Demonstrable experience of defining KPIs and goals and driving improvement through action
- Commercially astute, technically strong, and insightful with the ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels
- Entrepreneurial, able to balance operational and strategic thinking and activity effectively
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