Finance Director

We are looking for a highly motivated Finance Director to join a leading Northwest Professional Services Company whose headquarters is in Lancashire. Dynamic in your approach, you will have proven experience in delivering high-quality solutions.

You will play a central role in developing procedures, systems, and effective financial performance and analysis across the organisation to drive growth and operational effectiveness

You will help kick start a new chapter of organisational growth and facilitate the financial planning and forecasting processes to produce robust plans and dialog that assist the decision-making process.

The successful candidate will have

• ACA or equivalent, technically strong in accounting, reporting, and tax
• A strong commercial mindset with a focus on achieving targets and standards
• Experience in working in professional services
• Analytical thinking and progressive nature
• Proactive provision of solutions
• Strong bias for operational detail, but able to maintain the overall strategic perspective
• Excellent communication, both written, spoken, and in presentation

Experience

• Proven background and Finance Director, Group Financial Controller, or similar role in complex and changing businesses
• Experience of involvement throughout acquisition processes from assessment to due diligence to implementation
• Previous relationships at the Director level with Banks, advisors, and other stakeholders
• Proven demonstrable experience in developing credible strategies in finance
• Clear track records of delivering success
• Successful track record of generating innovative ideas and executing, them through challenging the status quo
• Proven excellent leadership skills, with the ability to influence
• Accountability / Making tough decisions

Benefits

• £80 - £100k per annum based on experience
• Dynamic company
• Flexible working
• Pension
• Discretional bonus