Highly profitable, rapidly growing Scottish Head Quartered organisation has an opening for a commercially focused Divisional Finance Director.

Reporting to the Managing Director, with a dotted line to the Group CFO, the Divisional Finance Director will take responsibility for the delivery of accurate and high-quality management information, while organising and contributing to the leadership of the organisation. This role is supported by two direct reports, being a Financial Controller and a Head of Commercial Finance, with a wider team of +20 staff including Management Accountants, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable transactional staff. The main duties and responsibilities include:

• Delivery of high quality, reliable and insightful management accounts
• Leading business budgeting and forecasting cycles to support, short, medium and long-term business planning in collaboration with all key stakeholders
• Ongoing cash and working capital forecasting, ensuring working capital requirements are met across the business
• Ensuring robust working capital management, including monitoring and escalation for aged debt or customers at risk of default
• Delivery of accurate and timely reporting, including reconciliation to operational management systems
• Leading on monthly stock reconciliation processes with other group entities to ensure existence, completeness and accuracy of stock reporting
• Post go-live ERP system support and embedding new processes within the team and across the group
• Ongoing review and development of controls, processes and procedures, ensuring a robust environment as the business continues to grow
• Developing business cases and financial models to secure capital expenditure approval
• Review of potential new business opportunities, including commercial bids and contract reviews, in close liaison with the Commercial Director and Sales leads
• Investment analysis and scenario planning of risks, potential returns, etc
• Review and analysis of performance including budgeting, cashflow forecasts, cost control and KPI monitoring
• Supporting any system implementations and upgrades
• Recording, monitoring, escalation and mitigation of business risks
• Supervision and development of the accounts team, including responsibility for future recruitment and evolving the finance structure to meet business needs
• Playing key role in the integration of any future acquisitions

The Finance Director position requires a professionally qualified accountant with the relevant PQE who possesses both excellent technical accounting skills, coupled with a proven track record of adding significant commercial value to an organisation. You successful candidate will be a self-starter willing to be involved in the detail, whilst having sufficient gravitas to support and challenge key stakeholders. Exceptional influencing skills are a pre-requisite, with a background in challenging commercial contacts being highly advantageous. Given this is a high growth commercial business, an appetite to continually improve Management Information packs, systems, controls and reporting platforms as the business continues to evolve are essential. Candidates coming from a heavily automated environment are not the right fit for this opportunity.

First round interviews are with our retained advisors at Rutherford Cross.  Final stages will involve meeting the Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer. Applications should be sent to: [email protected]