The Opportunity
Finatal is working with a c.£200m revenue professional services business which is presently scaling towards an exit with a credible private equity fund.
The business has set a positive tone culturally, boasting an excellent pattern of internal promotions and retention. The business requires a commercial FD to report to the Managing Director. The successful hire will be commercially minded, business partnering cross functionally, maximizing systems, and particularly adept to modeling and providing insightful analysis to senior stakeholders.
The Responsibilities
- Partnering with the MD, CFO and wider Senior Leadership Team for the management of performance and delivery of strategic plans.
- Lead financial planning encompasses all aspects of the forecasting cycles (Budgets, Outlooks, Long Term Plan) ensuring key assumptions are understood, bought into by the business and strategic aims are delivered within required timelines.
- Influencing key stakeholders to drive proactive and corrective action using commercial acumen, data, insights and trends for the delivery of the Commercial P&L.
- Lead the implementation of digital technologies that will automate large parts of daily and weekly reporting as well as a data led approach to demand planning and production scheduling
The Requirements
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification with substantial post qualified experience
- Experience with time-people billing
- Experience of direct exposure to a PE fund
- Passionate about commercial finance with proven finance leadership experience, ability to build a ‘best in class’ commercial finance function
- Strong analytical skills with advanced data competencies highly valuable
- Strong commercial acumen with ability to influence senior stakeholders to drive profitability and improve financial performance of the company
