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Location: Home based but once per month a full day in and around Bristol/Bridgewater would be required. They meet up once per quarter. May be more trips early on to meet and work with CEO. They get together for 1 week with colleagues from US and Europe and an overnight stay for their end of year/Christmas celebration
Salary: to £75k DOE
Benefits: 25 days hols, birthday off, £50 per month work from home allowance, private medical, Perk box, 4 days training per year (bookable for outside work related training), NEST pension
Our client is a software company who are now about to go through a period of growth and due to retirement are looking for a dynamic, commercially capable and driven Head of Finance. They are in the process of developing new products which will be released to the market later this year or next. This role would suit someone who is either looking for a dynamic Head of Finance role or who wants to make the step-up in your career.to this level.
The Head of Finance is a standalone role (has a part-time Finance Asst to work alongside). Their systems are well embedded, but there are opportunities for you to tweak these as you see fit to ensure they are efficient, effective and fit for the future
The successful Head of Finance will:-
- Be a fully qualified finance professional (CIMA/ACA/ACCA)
- Have demonstrable commercial experience
- Be ambitious and driven
- Be full of energy
- Be prepared to be hands-on
- Be a leader of people - able to motivate and align the team both internally and externally
- Focused, resilient and with a positive "can do" attitude
- Have good IT skills
You will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of a £5 million turnover software business. Their number of transactions is quite low, but the value is high, however there are lots of project based payments to manage.
You will be a key member of the Senior Leadership Team and will see you working proactively with department managers and suppliers.
Key areas will be to run a small monthly payroll, work out sales commissions, oversee sales transactions, discounting product sales when appropriate etc. But the drive for this person will be to work closely with the CEO to advise and support plans for growth. To be a trusted advisor to support and challenge, and to bring good commercial acumen and strategic thinking.
Your role will see you
- Providing financial stewardship and decisive leadership of the finance function
- Manager partner and customer financial relationships
- Ensure the timely and accurate production of monthly reports
- Working with the board to ensure that they have fit for purpose financial accounting information and reporting systems
- Ownership of lending relationships, cash management, Corporation Tax, VAT, FX and Treasure management and all financing
- Payroll and expenses
- Financial planning and analysis
- Financial operations and compliance
- Risk management and corporate governance
- Financial systems and process improvement
