Finance Director - West Midlands (Region), United Kingdom - Gleeson Recruitment Group

Gleeson Recruitment Group

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West Midlands (Region), United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About Our Client
Our client is part of a highly successful global group. They invest heavily in R&D to maintain leadership in innovation and to drive organic growth. They also diligently pursue strategic, ground-breaking technologies via acquisition which accelerate progressfurther.

They operate a decentralised model bringing many benefits, including highly accountable management teams and the opportunity to really make a difference.

Employees are encouraged and incentivised to exercise agility and entrepreneurialism and areallowed the room to do so.

This is a high-profile FD appointment working for a key division within the group.

They are a fast-growing company, with a history of investing in people, all while focused on empowering an autonomous, sustainable future.

Their next generation technologyis accelerating the change to a more sustainable, environmentally friendly future for businesses, and the planet.

This is a high-profile Finance Director opportunity in the West Midlands.

This role will serve as the business partner and strategic advisor to the UK General Manager (GM), who they will have an operational reporting line into.

They will also have a functionalreporting line to the EMEA CFO. As well as business partnering the GM, you will also be supporting the wider Board/ Management Team.

The FD of this high growth division requires a demonstrated leader to help support take the business through an exciting period of growth and change.

This is a crucial strategic role at the heart of the business.

Taking full ownership of all aspects of thebusiness and setting the financial direction and continuing to drive the tempo of the business.

Key responsibilities will include You will have full autonomy to shape the finance agenda, deliver process improvements and simplification, and drive business partnering

Full P&L and Balance Sheet responsibility
Be an active member of the UK Board, contributing towards the business's future success
Lead and develop a multisite finance team
Oversee UK commercial, strategic, and technical financial management
Lead the forecasting process across the business
Harmonise financial operations and full resource sharing across legal entities
Manage working capital requirements, minimising risk, and optimising valueadd inventory to support selling and service
Functional ownership of UK IT and insurance matters

The Successful Applicant

For this Finance Director opportunity in the West Midlands, you will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with significant post qualification experience.

This Finance Director position requires a well-rounded commercially focused and technically strongfinance leader.

A successful track record in establishing high performing finance teams will also be required and any prior experience of bringing teams together and merging legal entities advantageous.

A track record of supporting a business through growth will also beimportant. Ideally you will also have been involved with a system implementation and post integration experience would be advantageous.

The role requires an FD who has the strength of character to challenge whilst being able to do so in a collegiate and considered manner.

It is also important that you are comfortable leading change, capable of influencing at all levels and with a decisivenature.

What's on Offer
£90, ,000 Basic Salary, Car, Bonus, and other Standard Benefits

We are committed to encouraging and celebrating applicants from different backgrounds, whatever their gender, ethnicity, race, religion, education, socioeconomic background, disability or sexual orientation to promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace.