Looking for a strong finance professional to take up the role of Finance Director to work alongside the MD to lead the group’s financial area to support and drive our growth and development.

• Contribute fully to the development of strategy across all areas of the business, challenging assumptions and decision-making as appropriate and providing financial analysis of operational parameters to provide guidance on all activities, plans, targets and business drivers to drive change and profitability.
• Work with senior management teams to grow the business, formulating strategies and plans.
• Lead, build, strengthen and mentor an established finance team comprising 20 people.
• Provide planning and leadership to all the group’s finance and accounting activities, to optimise and drive the financial performance.
• Oversee the procurement function to deliver robust process and leverage strategic procurement to deliver material savings to group operations.

Requirements

• Must be a fully qualified Chartered Accountant through a reputable audit firm
• 10-15 years’ experience in a professional and dynamic financial environment, with a preference for agriculture, FMCG, manufacturing, or distribution ideally with some international exposure.
• Proven leadership ability with building a disciplined, effective and dynamic growth oriented team
• Strong attention to detail at a systems and process level
• Commercially astute, articulate, hands on, technically strong, dynamic, insightful and influential leader with the ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels.