Zachary Daniels
Finance Director
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Finance Director | Leading Multi-site Events & Hospitality Organisation
Gloucestershire (Hybrid) | £130,000 to £150,000 plus car allowance, bonus and excellent benefits
A commercially focused Finance Director opportunity within one of the UK's most recognised customer-facing organisations.
An exceptional opportunity has arisen for an experienced Finance Director to join the senior leadership team of a nationally recognised organisation operating a portfolio of prestigious venues.
This is a high-impact commercial leadership role where you'll influence strategic decisions, drive financial performance and support significant investment across a complex, multi-site business.
Joining during a period of transformation, you'll play a key role in building a more commercially focused finance function that partners closely with operational leaders to improve performance, challenge thinking and support future growth.
The Role
As a key member of the senior leadership team, you'll provide commercial insight, strategic challenge and financial leadership across a portfolio of high-profile operations.
Responsibilities include:
- Leading budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning.
- Providing commercial insight and constructive challenge to senior operational leaders.
- Partnering with commercial teams to improve trading performance across multiple revenue streams.
- Building robust business cases to support significant capital investment.
- Delivering insightful financial reporting, forecasting and KPI analysis.
- Leading and developing a high-performing finance team through a period of organisational change.
- Driving continuous improvement across finance processes, governance and business partnering.
- Supporting strategic decision making as a trusted adviser to the leadership team.
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About You
We're looking for a commercially minded Finance Director who enjoys operating close to the business and influencing results.
You'll ideally have:
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification.
- Experience operating as a Finance Director, Divisional Finance Director or senior commercial finance leader.
- A background within retail, hospitality, leisure, consumer, venues, travel or another customer-facing multi-site environment.
- Strong commercial finance and business partnering experience within a trading business.
- The confidence to challenge senior stakeholders constructively and influence strategic decisions.
- Experience leading finance teams through change and transformation.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build credibility quickly across a diverse stakeholder group.
- An interest in customer experience, hospitality, live events or destination businesses would be advantageous.
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The Package
- £130,000 to £150,000 basic salary.
- Car allowance.
- 20%+ annual bonus.
- Excellent pension.
- Healthcare benefits.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Hybrid working, typically 3/4 days on-site.
- Excellent long-term career opportunities within a nationally recognised organisation.
Zachary Daniels is a Niche, National & International Recruitment Consultancy.
Specialising in Buying, Merchandising & Ecommerce, Design, Technical, Wholesale & Production, Finance, HR, Marketing, Sales, Store Support and Store Management recruitment.
Our client welcomes applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of race, sex, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, age or any other protected characteristic. We are committed to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
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