Finance Director
2 days ago
London
Finance Director \n Location: London Salary: £140,000 to £170,000 + bonus (DOE) Hybrid: Yes \n About the Company \n We are proud to be partnering with an established and growing hospitality group with a strong reputation for quality, innovation and customer experience. \n With a diverse portfolio of businesses, a complex multi entity structure and continued growth across the UK and internationally, the organisation is strengthening its senior finance leadership. \n They are now looking to appoint a Finance Director to take senior ownership of financial control, reporting, governance and finance infrastructure across the Group. \n This is a technically led role for someone with the experience and judgement to operate effectively across a complex, fast moving and entrepreneurial organisation, while working closely with an experienced senior leadership team as a senior finance voice within the business. \n Job Requirements \n As a Finance Director, you will: \n\n • Take senior ownership of Group financial reporting and consolidation across a complex multi entity structure\n, • Ensure accurate and timely delivery of the Group P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, with strong oversight of the underlying financial control environment\n, • Maintain a clean and well governed balance sheet across all entities, ensuring reconciliations, intercompany balances and key accounting schedules are appropriately controlled\n, • Own Group accounting policy and provide senior technical judgement across complex accounting matters\n, • Lead the Group statutory audit process from planning through to completion, ensuring accounts are delivered accurately and on time\n, • Take ownership of the Group tax position, working closely with external advisers across corporate tax, VAT, employment taxes and international requirements\n, • Ensure strong financial governance, controls and compliance are maintained across all entities and jurisdictions\n, • Oversee Group treasury, liquidity and cash management, ensuring appropriate visibility over working capital and funding requirements\n, • Maintain oversight of intercompany funding, banking structures, payment controls and cash movements across the Group\n, • Support the financial infrastructure required for continued international expansion, including new entities, multi currency reporting, tax, audit, banking and financial controls\n, • Ensure appropriate finance processes and controls are established as new territories and operations are launched\n, • Maintain oversight of Group structure and statutory governance, including incorporations, intercompany arrangements and entity management\n, • Work closely with senior leadership to ensure financial risks are clearly understood and appropriately managed\n, • Provide constructive challenge and technical guidance to senior stakeholders where required\n, • Lead and develop senior members of the finance team, setting clear standards around financial control, reporting and accountability\n, • Manage key external finance relationships including auditors, tax advisers, banks and other professional partners\n, • Drive continuous improvement across financial reporting, controls, systems, processes and data quality\n, • Ensure the finance environment continues to scale effectively alongside the growth and increasing complexity of the organisation\n\n Key Person Requirements \n\n • A qualified accountant, ACA, ACCA or CIMA, with significant post qualified experience operating within technically strong finance environments\n, • Currently operating as a Finance Director, Group Financial Controller, Director of Finance or in a comparable senior finance leadership position\n, • Demonstrable experience leading financial control, Group consolidation, financial reporting and balance sheet governance across complex multi entity and multi site organisations\n, • Experience within hospitality, retail, leisure, consumer or another operationally complex environment\n, • Demonstrable ownership of statutory audit, financial controls and year end reporting\n, • Strong understanding of corporate tax, VAT and broader financial compliance, with the ability to effectively manage and challenge external advisers\n, • Hands on experience of treasury, cash management, intercompany and Group structures\n, • Experience operating within an international or multi currency environment\n, • Technically strong and control minded, with the ability to remain close to the detail while operating at senior leadership level\n, • Confident managing senior stakeholders and able to provide credible challenge in a fast moving and entrepreneurial environment\n, • Strong leadership capability, with experience developing high performing finance teams and raising standards across a function\n, • Pragmatic, resilient and delivery focused, with the ability to introduce rigour and structure without unnecessarily slowing the pace of the business\n\n If you are looking for a broad and highly visible Finance Director role where you can take ownership of financial control across a complex, growing and increasingly international business, while working closely with an experienced senior leadership team, we would love to hear from you. \n Please submit your CV for immediate consideration. \n #INDFT