Car Benefit Solutions
Director of Finance
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About Car Benefit Solutions (CBS)
At Car Benefit Solutions (CBS), strong financial leadership is central to our ability to grow sustainably, invest wisely, and create long-term value for our customers, colleagues, and shareholders. This new role has been created to shape the financial future of our market-leading business. As we continue to grow and evolve, we are seeking an ambitious, commercially astute, and strategically minded Director of Finance to join our Executive Board.
About the Role
This is a significant opportunity to influence the strategic direction of CBS, drive long-term value creation, and build the financial capability, governance, and resilience required to support the next phase of our growth. Reporting directly to the Managing Director and operating as a member of the Executive Board, you will define and lead the long-term financial strategy for CBS. You will ensure the business remains financially sustainable, appropriately funded, and positioned to maximize commercial performance, strategic flexibility, and long-term enterprise value.
Responsibilities
You’ll be responsible for:
Financial Strategy and Commercial Direction
- Defining the long-term financial direction, capital strategy, and value creation priorities for CBS.
- Shaping strategic decisions through clear financial, commercial, and market insight.
- Determining how capital, funding, investment, and financial resources should be deployed to support business objectives.
- Balancing growth, profitability, cash generation, and risk to maximize sustainable long-term value.
- Ensuring Finance is recognized across CBS as a strategic partner and driver of business success.
Commercial Performance and Enterprise Value
- Establishing the financial performance framework that supports sustainable growth and long-term value creation.
- Ensuring commercial decisions are aligned with strategic priorities and deliver appropriate returns.
- Providing the Executive Board with meaningful insight, constructive challenge, and assurance to support confident decision-making.
- Ensuring financial performance, emerging risks, and commercial opportunities are clearly understood across the organization.
- Converting financial and market insight into actionable recommendations that improve organizational performance.
Governance, Risk, and Financial Stewardship
- Maintaining strong financial governance, control, and compliance across CBS.
- Retaining Executive accountability for the integrity of statutory accounts, taxation governance, regulatory reporting, and statutory filing obligations.
- Ensuring effective oversight of audit activity, tax and VAT compliance, treasury governance, and financial risk.
- Maintaining a robust financial control environment that supports responsible growth, effective decision-making, and stakeholder confidence.
- Providing assurance to shareholders, funders, auditors, and the Board regarding the financial stewardship and resilience of the organization.
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Funding, Treasury, and External Relationships
- Defining the long-term funding and capital management strategy required to support CBS’s growth ambitions.
- Maintaining strong executive-level relationships with banking partners, funders, auditors, advisers, and other key financial stakeholders.
- Ensuring appropriate oversight of liquidity, funding capacity, treasury exposures, and financial resilience.
- Using economic trends, funding conditions, and market intelligence to inform strategic planning and investment decisions.
Executive Leadership, Culture, and Organisational Influence
- Contributing to the strategic leadership of CBS as a member of the Executive Board, helping to shape the direction, priorities, and culture of the organization.
- Building and leading high-performing Finance and Treasury teams, creating a culture of accountability, ownership, commercial awareness, and continuous improvement.
- Developing future leadership and specialist capability to ensure CBS has the financial expertise required to support long-term growth.
- Championing financial discipline, informed decision-making, and responsible risk management across the organization.
- Sponsoring financial transformation, organizational change, and continuous improvement.
- Role modelling the CBS Values in your leadership, decisions, and relationships.
About You
You will be a commercially focused finance executive who combines strategic thinking, technical credibility, and strong business insight. Resilient, adaptable, and an excellent communicator, you will be able to build trust and followership at every level. You will bring energy and momentum, respond confidently to changing commercial conditions, and translate complex financial information into clear, practical direction.
You will have the judgement and influence to balance commercial opportunity with financial stewardship, governance, risk, and long-term value creation.
Essential Experience
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified.
- Senior finance leadership experience, with evidence of influencing at Executive Board, Board, or senior leadership level.
- Experience shaping financial strategy, organizational performance, and commercial direction.
- Strong commercial judgement and strategic decision-making capability, supported by exceptional analytical and data skills.
- Experience developing and executing business and financial strategies, governance arrangements, and performance frameworks.
- The ability to provide clear insight, assurance, and constructive challenge at Board level.
- A successful record of leading and developing high-performing finance teams.
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Desirable Experience
- Executive oversight of statutory accounts, audit, taxation, and financial governance.
- Experience within financial services, lending, leasing, automotive finance, or another regulated environment.
- Management of investor, funder, and banking relationships.
- Treasury, liquidity, and funding management experience.
- Strong budgeting, forecasting, commercial pricing, and financial modelling expertise.
- Experience supporting organizational growth, profitability, and transformation.
- Experience using technology, artificial intelligence, and automation to improve efficiency, insight, and financial decision-making.
Most importantly, you will be passionate about helping businesses grow, creating sustainable long-term value, and ensuring Finance is recognized as a driver of strategic and commercial success, rather than simply a reporting function.
Why Join CBS?
CBS is a growing and ambitious business with a strong culture, a clear purpose, and exciting opportunities ahead. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future direction of the organization, influence strategic decision-making at Executive Board level, and play a leading part in the next phase of our growth.
If you are looking for a position where you can influence strategy, drive commercial success, and shape the financial future of a market-leading business, we would love to hear from you.
Benefits
CBS provides a broad employee benefits and wellbeing programme designed to support the needs of our people. Our Executive Directors receive a comprehensive reward and wellbeing package designed to support them personally, professionally, and financially, including:
Reward and Recognition
- Competitive executive-level reward package
- Generous Additional Variable Earnings
- Car entitlement
- Attractive pension provision
- Loyalty bonus and long-service recognition
- Optional employee car scheme
Health and Wellbeing
- Bupa private medical insurance
- Annual health assessments and flu vaccinations
- Health cash plan covering dental and optical care
- Employee Assistance Programme providing confidential support
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