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Salary: £70,000 + Bonus
Location: Manchester
Hybrid: 2-3 days in the office (flexible working hours)
Keywords: Finance, Leadership, High-growth, Commercial, Process Improvements
Our client is seeking a Head of Finance to provide strong leadership within the finance team within their high-growth business. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with a team of talented individuals committed to driving financial improvement, scalability, and customer experience. The successful candidate will enjoy an environment that encourages the development of skills, knowledge, and experience, offering long-term career progression. New ideas and initiatives are encouraged, and you will have the chance to make a difference and help shape the future of the this innovitive business.
- Opportunity to lead in a high-growth business
- Manage, coach and develop a large team
- Chance to drive financial improvement, scalability, and customer experience
- Environment that encourages skill development and offers long-term career progression
What you'll do:
As the Head of Finance, you will be tasked with overseeing all financial operations and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations. You will build strong working relationships with various stakeholders both within and outside of finance. Your role will involve driving commercial decision making through constructive challenge and support of the leadership team, along with being responsible for providing day-to-day finance support across key areas such as Reporting, Financial Planning & Analysis, and Transactional Operations.
- Manage, coach and develop a large team of varied seniorities
- Oversee all financial operations ensuring compliance with relevant regulations
- Define and deliver the Finance/SMT agenda in conjunction with strategic planning cycle
- Drive commercial returns through constructive challenge and support of the SMT
- Responsible for day-to-day finance support across key areas: Reporting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Transactional Operations
- Proactively manage relationships with key stakeholders
What you bring:
The ideal candidate for this Head of Finance position should bring excellent people management skills along with great communication abilities. You should be able to work on your own initiative and manage your own workload to strict deadlines. An analytical mindset coupled with good attention to detail and numeracy skills is essential. Strong IT skills, particularly competence in spreadsheets/Excel (advanced) and finance systems are required. A positive attitude towards change and embracing new ideas and ways of working is also crucial.
- Excellent People Management Skills
- Great communication skills
- Ability to work on own initiative and manage own workload to strict deadlines
- Analytical with good attention to detail and numeracy skills
- Strong IT skills, particularly competence in spreadsheets/Excel (advanced) and finance systems
- Positive attitude to change and embracing new ideas and ways of working
What sets this company apart:
Our client is a high-growth business operating within a fast-growing sector. They offer an environment that encourages skill development, knowledge enhancement, and long-term career progression. They value new ideas and initiatives and believe that these can make a difference and help shape the future of their business. They are committed to driving financial improvement, scalability, and customer experience and promote flexible and hybrid working.
Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates
