Finance Director

A highly successful and rapidly growing high end leisure business is seeking an experienced Finance Director for a career-defining opportunity to develop and lead a bustling finance team based in the Poole area.

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

• Acting as a direct line of report for the Financial Controller, providing oversight and support to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting and compliance
• Overseeing day-to-day financial operations, ensuring robust financial controls, efficient processes, and smooth delivery of all business-as-usual finance functions
• Playing a key role in the organisation’s commercial strategy, providing financial analysis and insight to support funding initiatives, M&A activity, and investment decisions
• Driving both organic and acquisitive growth by identifying opportunities, assessing financial viability, and supporting integration and delivery of acquisitions
• Collaborating with supply chain, operations, and commercial teams to identify and resolve financial and operational inefficiencies across the supply chain
• Partnering with the executive team to align financial strategy with wider business goals, contributing to long-term planning and performance improvement
• Managing external relationships with auditors, banks, and other stakeholders, ensuring strong financial governance and compliance with all relevant regulations
• Developing and refining KPIs, dashboards, and reporting tools to provide clear financial insight for decision-making across the business

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

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA or equivalent) and extensive post-qualified experience within a senior financial leadership remit
• Core exposure within both manufacturing and ecommerce environments
• Strong commercial aptitude, with experience in defining successful financial strategies and exploring opportunities to improve processes
• Good awareness of areas including accounting, controls and governance, audit and risk management
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Office and wider accounting/finance software and systems
• Exquisite communication skills, particularly in being able to command the engagement of key stakeholders and influence strategic decision making

Your Opportunity
As a growing and successful business, the company has seen recent and sustained success within the market, becoming a leader in their field and are looking to continue this expansion throughout the coming years. Subsequently, this yields a particularly exciting opportunity for a talented and driven financial leader to spearhead strategic and impactful decision making, with their expertise underpinning core business decisions in key areas such as improving operational and financial efficiencies, future acquisitions, funding and investments and supporting further growth.

For the successful professional in this dynamic role, there will be an extensive remuneration package inclusive of an attractive starting salary, in the region of £120,000, alongside a plethora of additional rewards and benefits including excellent pension and holiday allocations, options for healthcare and life cover, discounts across various offerings and other rewards and incentives. Moreover, there is fantastic scope for development in this role and the opportunity to have a real and lasting impact in the future growth of this business.

If this career defining role is of interest to you, please do not hesitate to reach out to:

Justin Heron - Talent Acquisition Director

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