Finance Director - #1 role / PE backed SME

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Finance Director - #1 role

Central London

C100,000 + Bonus + Benefits

PE backed rapid growth SME

This rapidly expanding and highly successful organisation has over several years developed a market leading reputation for high quality delivery and excellence in service.

Recently acquired by a PE firm, the business is now embarking on a journey of rapid scale-up through both M&A activity and organic growth. With acquisitions already under way this is an exciting time for the business.

Reporting to the CEO, as Finance Director you will:

• Partner the Exec team, providing insight and guidance on all finance matters Own end-to-end finance for the business, managing the relationship with an outsourced accounting provider (future insourcing project)
• Execute financial management and insight, enabling sound decision making and steering business success through commercial support & financial analysis of performance
• Create a robust and efficient financial control environment, ensuring a 'no surprises' reporting structure
• Business case and decision support for key initiatives and sales opportunities, ensuring alignment with overall strategic objectives
• Develop the management reporting pack and appropriate KPIs
• Financial support for acquisitions including pre-acquisition analysis and post-acquisition integration
• Lead on FP&A including budgeting and forecasting for Group and entities
• Advise on expansion into new markets and ongoing investment business cases
• Build the appropriate financial models to enable business critical decision making
• Deliver transparent cashflow forecasting
• Work closely with the PE firm on ad hoc projects

Required candidate Profile:

• Qualified accountant
• Practical and hands-on knowledge of both FP&A and Financial Control
• Experience of successfully partnering and influencing senior commercial stakeholders
• Able to effortlessly describe examples of when delivered significant value-add in previous roles
• Has worked within a growing SME environment
• Displays immediate credibility and gravitas
• Exceptional levels of communication, influencing and presentation skills
• High levels of intellectual horsepower
• Tenacious, with an appetite to get stuck-in
• Happy to push back and challenge senior stakeholders
• Hungry to keep developing and learning

Desirable experience:

• Has worked within a PE backed scale-up