Head of Finance
- North Yorkshire
- Competitive salary
Blair West are supporting a PE backed service sector SME with the appointment of a Head of Finance.
Working as part of a small team, the successful candidate will support the CFO during what is scale up phase, with M&A activity on the horizon.
The successful candidate will lead a small team, albeit with an agile and hands-on leadership style given.
The opportunity:
- Overall responsibility for all financial transactions and reporting.
- Ensuring timely and accurate annual, month end and other regular reporting.
- Implement and maintain robust internal controls.
- Be an integral part of the operations of the business and senior stakeholders via effective business partnering.
- Lead on budget setting process in collaboration with the CFO and monitor performance against budget/forecasts.
- Proactively lead improvement to financial systems and processes.
- Monitor cashflow forecasts and management of group banking requirements.
- Ensure compliance with both statutory and non-statutory financial regulatory needs.
- Leading finance projects as the need arises including M&A (acquisition analysis, valuations and due diligence review, alongside integration).
You’ll be the ideal candidate for this position if you have:
- Demonstrable career progression within a finance function.
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified.
- Strong leadership & communication skills.
- Strong analytical skills including the ability to interpret, concisely explain and act on complex data sets & information.
- Strong organisational skills.
- High level of skills with Excel and demonstrable experience using and managing accounting software.
The benefits included with this opportunity:
- Competitive base salary.
- Bonus linked to EBITDA and company performance.
- Flexible, hybrid work arrangements.
Our commitment
Blair West is an equal-opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and inclusion at every stage of the recruitment process. We are committed to fairness, equality, and ongoing diversity training for our team to give our candidates and clients a feeling of belonging during their experience with us. Please speak to their consultant if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during their experience with us.
