Interim Head of Finance

Essex  ‐ Onsite
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Partner Financial's interim practice is currently working with a fast-growing PE-backed Service sector business to identify an Interim Head of Finance to support the CFO during a period of extensive growth and development.
The role requires an individual available to commence at short or immediate notice and able to commit to the full 6-month duration of the project.
Reporting to the CFO, key responsibilities will include:
Improvements to the financial and management accounting functions, delivering stricter controls and deadlines to the financial and management reporting processes;
Preparation of detailed annual operational budgets for various operating entities, using existing top-level budgetary figures to develop a more insightful and robust budgetary submission for each operational business unit;
Building and implementing new suites of finance KPIs to help measure and capture various business drivers, to be reported to the PE firm;
Working with current finance stakeholders to prepare the statutory accounts under UK GAAP, concurrently aligning statutory reporting of a newly-acquired subsidiary to the parent company reporting cycle;
Manage a team of 10 qualified and part-qualified finance professionals.
The successful candidate will:
Be a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, ACMA or equivalent) with a track record of delivering measurable improvements to management and financial reporting methodologies within a growing commercial business;
Have experience of working with operational stakeholders and business operations teams;
Be capable of swiftly assessing business reporting requirements and budgetary deliverables, understanding operational impacts for financial and management reporting requirements;
Have an up-to-date knowledge and comprehension of current UK GAAP statutory guidelines;
Be conversant in the preparation and delivery of KPI reporting and analysis within a growth focussed commercial environment.
I will be contacting candidates with the closest match to the client's criteria within ten days of application to arrange an initial meeting. If you have not heard from me within these timescales, thank you for your interest but please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.
Start date
n.a
From
Partner Financial
Published at
17.02.2013
Project ID:
490998
Contract type
Freelance
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