Fractional Finance Director
15 days ago
Bradford
\n Fractional Finance Director\n Location: Bradford BD11 1BY (In person) \n Pay: £900 - £1,500 per day \n Job Type: Temporary, Part-time \n Assignment Duration: Initial 12-week assignment, normally one day per week Role Overview\n Hands-on Fractional Finance Director needed to diagnose the finance position, install cash and control disciplines, create management reporting and lead recruitment/onboarding of a permanent Financial Controller. You must be willing to work on site in Drighlington during the diagnostic and key interviews. Required Deliverables\n \n • Ten-day diagnostic of accounts, cash, tax, stock, payroll, systems, access and people, with ranked red-flag register.\n, • Daily cash visibility, weekly 13-week cash forecast and controlled supplier-payment process.\n, • Chart of accounts/reporting dimensions, month-end checklist, compliance calendar and approval matrix.\n, • First management pack covering P&L, balance sheet, cash, stock, product/channel margin, advertising, delivery and imports.\n, • Shopify-to-payment-provider-to-bank reconciliation design and treatment of refunds, fees, chargebacks and customer deposits.\n, • Manufacturing cost model and import landed-cost methodology, with clear data ownership.\n, • End-to-end Financial Controller recruitment: job design, sourcing brief, screening, technical case, interviews, recommendation and onboarding.\n, • Documented handover, six-month backlog and recommendation on whether monthly advisory support remains useful.\n Required Qualifications & Skills\n \n, • Strong SME manufacturing, stock and product-costing experience\n, • Professionally qualified\n, • Hands-on enough to inspect transactions, reconciliations and factory data\n, • Independent and willing to challenge founders with evidence\n, • Able to explain finance in clear commercial language\n, • Comfortable creating practical spreadsheets and controls before recommending major systems\n, • Low ego, documented handover and no attempt to make Sonno dependent on indefinite support\n \n #J-18808-Ljbffr