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Finance Interim recruitment brief
Group Finance Director
- Experienced interim GFD required to provide backfill, enabling Acting CFO position from Mar-25
- GFD cover period TBC (c6-12 months (Apr-25 to Sep-25)
- Direct report of Acting CFO; member of the Leadership Group and member of the Finance & Procurement Leadership Team
- 6 direct reports: 4 Heads of Finance, 1 Finance Systems Manager, 1 Personal Assistant
- Leadership of c40FTE across the following teams:
- Financial Transaction Services team, covering: Billing; Credit Control; Cashiers and Accounts Payable / Purchasing Solutions
- Report to Control team, covering: Management Accounts; Financial Compliance & Control (external financial reporting, technical accounting, balance sheet control, Regulatory accounting, external audit management)
- Reporting, Enablement and Continuous Improvement (CI), covering: Finance reporting system & dashboard development; project accounting & business partnering to project delivery teams; capex reporting, forecasting & governance and leadership of cross-finance CI community. Also manages property payables team
- Finance Systems team: managing Oracle ERP finance modules and interfaces (2 FTE)
- Group FinanceH2FY25 priorities:
- Finance Transaction Services:
- Onboarding of new water customer contracts (transacting, accounting, reporting, working capital management), tactical solutions progressing to enduring scaled up solutions
- Drive transaction processing efficiency through system improvements and automation
- Develop and implement "Finance Essentials" programme of finance education across the business (in collaboration with People & Culture Learning & Development team)
- Support year end Working Capital management to deliver year end cash target
- Absorb Accounts Payable team into existing Order 2 Cash team
- Report 2 Control:
- Efficient production of audited Regulated Accounts and support for Adjudicator clearance process
- Deliver efficient and effective audits
- Build compliance team experience and confidence
- Implement Caseware software to support statutory account production for YE Jun-25
- Reporting,enablement & CI:
- Implement new ways of working to support "Tech24" reorganisation and move to agile product based cross-functional team working, Finance demand "front door" / interface with Digital Enablement team
- Reporting platform development including migration from QlikSense to cloud based QlikSAAS platform for finance dashboards and reporting
- Drive continued data quality improvements (both finance data and business data driving transactions / accounting)
- Rebalance central projects team capabilities to fit with requirements of new "ways of working" / Enablement support and Digital Enterprise interface
- Finance Systems:
- Stable delivery of finance systems for month end processes and financial planning cycles, including configuration for FY26
- Continued focus on improving Finance system performance and stability, supporting development of Digital Finance / IT roadmap
- Tax and Pension
- FY24 Corporation Tax and VAT return completion
- R&D expenditure credit claim
- Legal entity restructuring (25 UK and 2 overseas entity strike-off / liquidation by Jun-25)
- UK transfer pricing and inter-co balance rationalisation
- Tax and legal entity structuring support for any commercial international expansion required
- Programme manage defined benefit pension plan agenda, instructing and guiding external advisors (escrow unwind / PCST implementation / agenda buy-in completion / enhanced redundancy alternative provision / buy-out / wind up
- Finance Transaction Services:
Please apply to the advert for more information.
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
