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A market leading company based in Southampton with hybrid working are looking for a Divisional Finance Director to take full P&L responsibility for a key region of business. This role is responsible for providing financial management, analysis, support and control to the division. The role holder will be responsible for managing and developing a finance team. \n This role will be involved in all financial aspects of the regional financial reporting, flash, budget, forecast and rolling three-year plan. Alongside financial reporting it is expected the role holder will be involved in business cases, bids and tenders and investment preparation and appraisal. \n It is also expected that the role will provide management with valuable insights into financial drivers to support better decision making and helping to improve business performance. \n Key responsibilities: \n\n • Offer financial expertise to strengthen control and planning for business units.\n, • Oversee financial performance and compliance across business units.\n, • Manage the month-end closing process for multiple locations, ensuring timely reporting.\n, • Drive change by influencing and challenging existing processes.\n, • Compile and present weekly flash reports, quarterly forecasts, annual budgets, and a rolling three-year financial plan.\n, • Establish and maintain strong relationships with regional managers, department heads, and operational leaders through regular meetings.\n, • Evaluate financial performance and key metrics for each location.\n, • Identify and assess potential risks and growth opportunities within the region.\n, • Work closely with station and divisional leadership to enhance financial awareness and improve overall performance.\n, • Prepare and present financial reports and ad hoc analyses for both internal and external stakeholders.\n, • Lead financial evaluations for pricing proposals and develop capex submissions.\n, • Conduct financial assessments and analyses as required.\n\n \n Qualifications and Experience: \n\n • Qualified Accountant - ACCA, CIMA or ACA\n, • Experience of responsibility for full P&L\n, • Excellent commercial and analytical skills\n, • Hands-on practical approach to providing guidance and direction in a challenging and dynamic business environment.\n, • Self-motivated, disciplined and with exceptional time management skills and ability to meet deadlines and prioritise multiple workloads.\n, • High Level of Integrity.\n\n

Director of Financial Planning, Performance & Strategy \n Location: Hampshire (Agile Working) Salary: Up to £150,000 (depending on experience) + excellent benefits package, including car allowance, market-leading pension, private family healthcare, annual bonus and life assurance \n The Opportunity \n Our client is a large organisation operating within a complex and highly regulated industry, delivering essential services that support millions of users and businesses across the UK. The organisation is recognised for its commitment to operational excellence, innovation and long-term investment, and plays an important role within the UK's broader infrastructure landscape. \n Reporting directly to the CFO and sitting on the Finance Leadership Team, this is one of the most senior finance leadership positions within the organisation. The role combines strategic finance, business partnering, performance leadership and business planning, providing the opportunity to influence decisions at Executive and Board level while helping shape the future direction of a critical organisation. \n A key aspect will be leading the development of the organisation's long-term business plans, including the submission of major business planning and price control submissions with significant strategic and financial implications. You will act as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders, providing insight, challenge and guidance on significant commercial, regulatory and investment decisions. \n The Role \n As Director of Financial Planning, Performance & Strategy, you will lead a team of senior finance professionals and drive the financial planning, forecasting and performance management agenda across the Group. \n Key responsibilities include: \n\n • Providing strategic financial leadership as a trusted adviser to the CFO, Executive Team and Board.\n, • Leading the annual business planning process, ensuring alignment between strategic objectives, investment priorities, operational performance and financial outcomes.\n, • Driving organisational performance through robust forecasting, planning and decision support frameworks.\n, • Owning the Group performance management framework, ensuring clear links between business strategy and financial delivery.\n, • Leading and developing a high-performing finance leadership team, fostering a culture of insight-led decision making, accountability and continuous improvement.\n, • Representing the organisation with regulators, customers, industry bodies and other external stakeholders on financial, commercial and regulatory matters.\n, • Building strong relationships across the business to influence strategic decisions and drive financial performance.\n, • Driving improvements across FP&A processes, systems, reporting and analytical capability to create a modern, commercially focused finance function.\n, • Leading the development and submission of business plans relating to periodic price control reviews and acting as Bid Manager for these major strategic programmes.\n, • Chairing and contributing to governance forums, programme boards and cross-functional working groups.\n, • Supporting customer consultations and engagement with industry stakeholders.\n, • Providing financial leadership on investment cases, strategic projects, corporate transactions and business improvement initiatives.\n, • Supporting executive remuneration planning through performance target setting and value driver analysis.\n\n The Person \n We are seeking an exceptional finance leader with the credibility, strategic capability and influencing skills to operate at the highest level of a complex, highly regulated organisation. \n You will be: \n\n • A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).\n, • An experienced finance leader with a track record of advising Executive and Board-level stakeholders.\n, • Comfortable influencing major strategic decisions and managing complex stakeholder relationships.\n, • An accomplished leader of senior professional teams, achieving results through influence, coaching and alignment rather than direct supervision.\n, • Experienced in leading large-scale planning, regulatory, transformation or strategic programmes within complex organisations.\n, • A highly credible communicator, confident presenting complex information to Boards, Executives, regulators and external stakeholders.\n, • Commercially astute, with the ability to understand and influence operational as well as financial decision making.\n, • Experienced in producing high-quality management reporting, governance papers and strategic recommendations within demanding timescales.\n, • Naturally analytical, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to bring clarity to complex and ambiguous challenges.\n, • Resilient, adaptable and comfortable making recommendations with significant commercial impact.\n\n Experience within infrastructure, utilities, energy, rail, defence, nuclear or other regulated industries would be advantageous. \n Why Apply? \n This is a rare opportunity to join a nationally significant organisation in a pivotal leadership role, influencing strategy, performance, regulation and investment decisions that will have a lasting impact on the future direction of the business. \n The successful candidate will join an organisation with a strong sense of purpose, an ambitious long-term agenda and a commitment to operational excellence, innovation and continuous improvement. \n In return, the organisation offers a highly competitive reward package alongside a flexible agile working environment, providing the opportunity to combine meaningful work with excellent career development and work-life flexibility. \n The organisation is committed to building an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds are valued and encouraged.

Chalk Hill Group is working with an established SME service-provider, based on the outskirts of Southampton, to recruit a Temporary Finance Manager for an initial 3–6-month period. \n The business are open to considering applicants on either a full-time or part-time basis, with a minimum commitment of 3 days per week required. This is an on-site role based at their offices. \n This is a hands-on role within an SME environment, suited to an experienced finance professional who is comfortable taking ownership of the day-to-day finance function and getting involved across a broad range of responsibilities. \n The Role \n Reporting into the Managing Director, you will take responsibility for the smooth running of the finance function, ensuring accurate financial information and effective financial controls are maintained. \n Key responsibilities will include: \n\n • Managing the day-to-day finance function and overseeing transactional finance activities\n, • Preparation of monthly management accounts and financial reporting\n, • Cashflow management, forecasting and monitoring\n, • Managing purchase and sales ledgers, including credit control and supplier payments\n, • Bank and balance sheet reconciliations\n, • Ensuring robust financial controls and processes are maintained\n, • Using Sage to maintain accurate financial records, process transactions and produce financial information and reports\n, • Identifying opportunities to improve finance processes and reporting\n, • Providing general support and guidance to the wider business on financial matters\n\n About You \n We are looking for an experienced Finance Manager, Management Accountant or similar who is comfortable working in an SME environment and able to operate with a high degree of autonomy. \n You will ideally have: \n\n • Strong experience across both transactional and management accounting\n, • Experience producing management accounts and financial reports\n, • Good hands-on experience using Sage\n, • Good knowledge of reconciliations, cashflow and financial controls\n, • Strong Excel skills and confidence working with financial systems\n, • Previous experience within an SME environment\n\n This would suit someone who can hit the ground running, quickly understand an existing finance function and provide stability and support to the business over the coming months. \n Chalk Hill Group is a Recruitment Agency. By applying for this role, you are authorising us as a Recruitment Agency to contact you and to provide services and information relating to job hunting activities. Please see our Privacy Policy on our website. \n

CMA Recruitment Group is retained on an exclusive basis to appoint a qualified Management Accountant, on a part-time permanent basis, for a well-established Southampton charity. The organisation operates a group of services across the city and employs almost 200 people, with a turnover of around £6m. It is unusual in that it delivers much of its work in areas where commercial providers have withdrawn, and any surplus is reinvested rather than distributed. The culture is deliberately family friendly and the working pattern is genuinely flexible. \n The position is 24 hours per week and the organisation is open on how those hours are arranged, whether that is three full days or spread more widely across the week. Thursday mornings in the office are the one fixed commitment, as that is when the senior team meets. \n What will the Management Accountant role involve? \n\n • Preparing the annual statutory accounts and acting as the main point of contact for the external auditors\n, • Producing monthly management accounts for the group\n, • Building and maintaining budgets and forecasts, broken down to individual site level\n, • Reporting site performance against budget to operational managers and to the board, which meets five to six times a year\n, • Supporting the payroll process, including an upcoming provider review\n, • Maintaining financial controls, including segregation of duties across banking and authorisation\n, • Working alongside the existing Finance Manager, with genuine scope to take on wider responsibility over time\n\n Suitable candidate for the Management Accountant vacancy: \n\n • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA), or qualified by experience with a strong statutory reporting background\n, • Experience of preparing annual accounts, ideally within a charity, education or not-for-profit setting\n, • Comfortable working with non-finance colleagues and explaining performance to operational managers\n, • Confident working autonomously in a small central team\n, • Sound understanding of financial controls in an organisation handling significant cash income\n\n Additional benefits and information for the role of Management Accountant : \n\n • 24 hours per week with real flexibility on how they are worked\n, • Hybrid working, with two days per week typically in the Southampton office\n, • Free childcare for employees with young children\n, • Flat structure with direct access to the Executive Director and board\n, • A values-led organisation where the work has a visible social purpose\n\n CMA Recruitment Group is acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this role. CMA complies with all relevant UK legislation and doesn't discriminate on any protected characteristics. By completing the application process, you agree to the terms outlined in our Privacy Notice and that CMA may contact you in connection with your application in relation to CMA providing you with work finding services. Our Privacy Notice can be viewed under the privacy tab on our website. CMA is currently receiving a high volume of applications. Whilst we ensure all applications are considered, regrettably, it may not be possible to respond individually to all applications received.

CMA Recruitment Group is exclusively partnering with a purpose-led, technology-driven business to appoint a Finance Director. It is a rare opportunity to take ownership of a finance function at a genuine inflection point. \n My client's proprietary SaaS platform changes how large public-sector and not-for-profit organisations deliver financial support to the people they serve. The platform is used by hundreds of thousands of people every year. Recent strategic investment has strengthened the Board, opened new markets and underpinned an ambitious growth plan to 2030. The finance function now needs to scale to match. \n Reporting directly to a highly experienced Group CFO with a background in technology, private equity and transformation, you will play the central role in building a finance function fit for the next phase of growth. \n What will the Finance Director role involve? \n\n • Taking full ownership of financial control, including statutory accounts, external audit, tax and VAT, balance sheet integrity and the month-end close\n, • Owning the monthly reporting pack and budgeting process, giving the CFO, Board and Non-Executive Directors complete confidence in the numbers\n, • Modelling and implementing changes to revenue recognition under FRS 102 as the SaaS platform and pricing models evolve\n, • Managing covenant compliance and reporting on the Group's bank facility\n, • Strengthening the control environment proactively, including documenting policies, embedding robust controls and keeping ahead of changes to accounting standards\n, • Assessing the current finance system and leading the implementation of a multi-entity consolidation solution, or recommending an alternative platform\n, • Leading and developing the finance team through procedural and cultural change\n, • Acting as a trusted deputy to the CFO, taking on elements of Board and investor reporting over time and contributing commercially to pricing, tenders and new contract wins\n\n Suitable Candidate for the Finance Director vacancy: \n\n • Qualified ACA or ACCA, practice-trained with experience at senior Financial Controller or Finance Director level, with a willingness to be hands-on\n, • Ideally a mix of SME and larger corporate experience. You'll bring the rigour and best practice of a larger organisation, and the pace and pragmatism to deliver in a growing business\n, • Technically strong in statutory reporting, financial control and balance sheet management\n, • Exposure to SaaS, technology or professional services revenue models is valuable.\n, • A credible, visible leader able to influence a senior Board, develop a team and drive change at pace\n\n Additional benefits and information for the role of Finance Director: \n\n • Discretionary bonus of c.10–15% (structure being confirmed)\n, • 5% employer pension contribution through a salary sacrifice arrangement\n, • Salary depends on experience-\n, • 25 days' holiday, plus your birthday and a Christmas close-down\n, • Direct exposure to the Group CFO, Board and Non-Executive Directors in a well-backed, growing business\n, • CMA Recruitment Group is retained on this appointment\n\n CMA Recruitment Group is acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this role. CMA complies with all relevant UK legislation and doesn't discriminate on any protected characteristics. By completing the application process, you agree to the terms outlined in our Privacy Notice and that CMA may contact you in connection with your application in relation to CMA providing you with work finding services. Our Privacy Notice can be viewed under the privacy tab on our website. CMA is currently receiving a high volume of applications. Whilst we ensure all applications are considered, regrettably, it may not be possible to respond individually to all applications received.

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