Chief Financial Officer

A highly successful business is seeking a Chief Financial Officer to join their team in Hampshire.

Your Role
While in this role your duties may include but are not limited to:

• Forging strong, influential relationships across the Executive Committee and the wider business to drive alignment and collaboration
• Establishing credibility with the Board, owners, and Chairman, positioning yourself as a trusted strategic partner to the CEO
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement and ensuring strict compliance with reporting deadlines
• Taking ownership of identifying, managing, and delivering timely actions that mitigate financial risks and unlock growth opportunities across the organisation
• Empowering the business to achieve measurable productivity and efficiency improvements.
• Ensuring critical financial decisions are made promptly and communicated clearly to stakeholders
• Providing insightful financial guidance on investment cases and implement rigorous benefits tracking
• Leading the development of high-quality, insightful reporting and robust forecasting processes that offer early visibility of deviations from expectations, establishing a reliable financial rhythm within planning and reporting cycles
• Circulating Board materials before each meeting that are comprehensive and well-crafted
• Implementing rigorous financial controls and streamlining accounting processes that safeguard the accuracy and integrity of financial reporting
• Overseeing the timely delivery of all statutory and tax reporting requirements across the business
• Attracting, developing, and retaining top-tier finance talent, embedding succession planning and cultivating a high-performing, collaborative, and aspirational team culture

You MUST Have
Please apply ONLY if you meet the following criteria:

• Qualified accountant ACA, ACCA or CIMA
• Extensive experience within finance and management, with proven success in leading a finance function, and development staff
• Commercially astute with experience in partnering with executive management in a fast-moving business environment
• Strong knowledge of cash & working capital
• Preferably exposure to a private equity backed business

Your Opportunity
As an already highly successful services business, this company are seeing a fantastic period of growth, due to continued success and returns and are seeking someone who can run with this energy and transform the business even further. This is an ideal position for a very commercially focussed finance leader, used to delivering cross-functionally or at least beyond just the remit of the finance function in order to establish strong and successful processes.

For the successful incumbent there will be an outstanding package, consisting of a competitive base pay, as well as a substantial peripheral package to include an array of attractive benefits and rewards. There will be amazing room for growth and the support to achieve personal and professional development within this role, and the opportunity to not only have a revolutionary effect on the business, but also be a key player in the shaping of the future of business and its ownership.

If this career-defining role is of interest to you, please don’t hesitate to reach out to:

Joshua Whitton - Recruitment Partner

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