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Finance Lead
Finance Lead
About the Role
The Finance Lead is a hands-on role combining ownership of core financial processes—including month-end and reporting—with responsibility for delivering key financial initiatives across the group. This position balances business-as-usual (BAU) accountability with project delivery, ensuring that financial operations run effectively today while driving improvements in how finance operates.
This role is suited to someone comfortable in a dynamic, transformational environment, who can take ownership of both day-to-day financial outputs and change initiatives—from scoping through execution and embedding sustainable improvements.
Key Responsibilities
Project Leadership & Process Improvement
- Lead and deliver financial projects end-to-end, including scoping, planning, execution, and embedding outcomes into the business
- Drive improvements to financial processes, ensuring better efficiency, accuracy, and consistency across the group
- Collaborate with stakeholders across finance and the wider business to successfully implement change
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Financial Accountability & Reporting
- Maintain and strengthen financial controls, ensuring issues are identified, resolved, and processes are well-documented
- Take a hands-on approach to delivering month-end closure, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and robust controls
- Oversee and enhance month-end and reporting processes, improving efficiency and robustness
Stakeholder Influence & Cross-Functional Delivery
- Apply strong financial insight to projects, ensuring clarity in how financial outputs are generated
- Influence and align stakeholders without formal line management responsibility
- Balance BAU delivery with project work, maintaining high-quality financial outputs while driving continuous improvement
Team & Operational.Oversight
- Works closely with multiple areas of the business (across finance and wider operations)
- Operates through influence and collaboration rather than direct team management
- Represents finance through systematic knowledge of month-end operations
Key Requirements & Qualities
- Strong grounding in core finance principles, with solid financial reporting experience
- Proven experience delivering finance or business change projects
- Demonstrated ability to improve financial processes, systems, or controls
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional influence skills
- Self-sufficient and delivery-focused, capable of working independently in a fast-paced environment
- Hands-on, pragmatic approach—willing to roll up sleeves to build, fix, and implement solutions directly
- Experience driving change initiatives and embedding improvements
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About the Work Environment
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic, collaborative setting and enjoys shaping processes rather than simply maintaining them. The opportunity is suited to project-driven finance professionals who want to improve how finance operates rather than solely fulfil fixed BAU responsibilities.
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