Finance Director

Finance Director opportunity: West Oxford

We are looking for a commercially focused finance director with strong people/team engagement, leadership and process improvement skills. The role will support the direction, growth and strategy for the organisation as well having responsibility for building a high performing finance teams and finance/financial shared service function.

Core skills:

• Inspirational Leadership and ability to engage/influence the success of the finance function.
• Organisational Design/structure: Ability to create a high performing function that is efficient in terms of people, process and systems.
• Strategic: Support the CEO with the strategic direction of the business based on financial insight, evidence and commercial facts.
• Commercial: Ability to interpret technical and complex financial information to non-financial leadership to support commercial decisions and business strategy.
• Technical: Qualified Accountant with strong IT/Financial systems experience. Previous finance transformation/turnaround skills would be desirable.

Duties:

• To advise Chief Executive Officer and senior management team in achieving forecast growth, implementing process improvements to ensure that the business can meet these targets and continue meeting client expectations.
• Prepare annual Budgets and Forecasts (as necessary) for THE COMPANY and subsidiaries with underlying commentary and supporting detail as necessary.
• Preparation of monthly Management accounts and annual Statutory reporting for THE COMPANY and its subsidiaries in accordance with relevant reporting/filing requirements. Liaise with the group Finance team to meet Group reporting requirements.
• Cash flow forecasting and related Treasury matters for THE COMPANY and its subsidiaries. Liaise with Group Treasury as appropriate to maximise Cash management and Interest income.
• Maintain strong relationship with primary Bankers in each jurisdiction.
• Compliance with all Finance, Tax and VAT reporting requirements in all jurisdictions where THE COMPANY and its subsidiaries operate.
• Monitor current and future legislation/requirements and, in liaison with THE COMPANY Compliance Officer, oversee implementation of these in all jurisdictions.
• Liaison with Group Finance counterparts (based in Germany) as necessary.
• In conjunction with Chief Executive Officer and SMT develop and implement IT strategy. Lead IT department in implementation of IT initiatives to enable continued business growth/realise future efficiencies.
• Provide guidance to Head of and other senior business managers to ensure practices, policies, procedures and reporting are optimised to provide the best service to clients.

Key Tasks:

• Corporate reporting, budgets, cash management and Tax/VAT compliance in UK as well as a small requirement for Spain and Portugal plus any other regions where the business operates.
• Implementation of Group guidance/policies
• Technical advice/guidance to business on tasks/projects
• Liaise with Operations/HR and other functions as required to ensure business is at forefront of new legislation and emerging trends