Finance Director - #2196816

Your new company
You will be joining a private equity-backed professional services business at an important stage in its growth journey. Following continued investment and development, the organisation is looking to appoint its first Finance Director to strengthen its financial infrastructure and build a more strategic, commercially focused finance function.This is a key leadership appointment with significant exposure to the CEO and investor group, and an opportunity to shape how finance supports the next phase of growth.

Your new role
Reporting directly to the CEO, you will take responsibility for developing and leading the finance function, creating the reporting, controls and commercial insight required to support a growing, investor-backed business.You will work closely with the CEO, senior leadership team and investors, providing greater visibility around performance and supporting strategic decision-making across the organisation.A key focus will be developing the financial reporting function, strengthening forecasting and budgeting, and creating meaningful management information and KPIs. You will also help shape the wider strategic finance agenda, ensuring the function can support future growth and value creation.As the organisation's first Finance Director, you will have the opportunity to build the function and establish the processes, structure and capability required for the next stage of the business.

What you'll need to succeed
You will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with experience operating in a senior finance leadership role within a growing, entrepreneurial or fast-paced organisation.You will have a strong track record of developing financial reporting and controls, alongside the commercial capability to work closely with a CEO and senior leadership team.Experience within a private equity-backed environment would be highly advantageous, as would exposure to professional services or another people-led business model.You will be a confident and credible communicator, comfortable working with investors and able to balance strategic leadership with the hands-on requirements of building and developing a finance function.

What you'll get in return
You will receive a competitive basic salary of £100,000-£120,000, alongside the opportunity to take on a highly influential Finance Director position within a growing private equity-backed business.Based in Manchester city centre, this is an opportunity to become the organisation's first Finance Director, work directly with the CEO and investors, and have genuine ownership over the development of the finance function and its strategic direction.

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