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Financial Director
Chichester
£130k – £150k/yr
Posted about 21 hours ago
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Finance Director
Location: Hybrid Working (minimum 2 days per week in the office near Chichester on the South Coast)
Salary: £130,000 - £150,000 + up to 30% annual bonus + benefits
Reporting to: CEO / Managing Director of Business Unit
About the Role
We are seeking an exceptional Finance Director to join the Executive Leadership Team of a £200 million utilities and energy business, part of a larger listed organisation, multi-billion turnover.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Business Performance
- Partner with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team to develop and execute business strategy.
- Shape long-term growth plans and translate strategic objectives into measurable financial outcomes.
- Drive value creation through effective resource allocation, investment decisions, and commercial prioritization.
- Provide financial leadership and challenge across strategic initiatives, partnerships, and transformation programmes.
- Support the Board with forward-looking insight into business performance, opportunities, and risks.
Commercial Finance & Business Partnering
- Lead the commercial finance agenda across the organisation.
- Act as a strategic partner to commercial, operational, and functional leaders.
- Drive improvements in revenue, profitability, customer value, and return on investment.
- Develop financial frameworks to support pricing, proposition, customer, and channel decisions.
- Evaluate business cases and investment opportunities, ensuring robust analysis and disciplined decision-making.
- Challenge assumptions and drive accountability for financial performance across the business.
Financial Planning & Analysis
- Own the long-term financial plan, annual budget, and forecasting processes.
- Deliver insightful management information and performance reporting to support decision-making.
- Lead scenario modelling, sensitivity analysis, and strategic planning activities.
- Monitor performance against targets and recommend corrective actions where required.
- Develop KPI frameworks that drive operational and financial accountability.
Financial Control, Governance & Risk
- Maintain ownership of the organisation's financial control framework.
- Ensure timely, accurate, and reliable financial reporting.
- Provide oversight of accounting, reporting, compliance, and governance processes.
- Ensure a strong and effective control environment across the business.
- Lead relationships with external auditors, advisers, and financial stakeholders.
- Identify and mitigate financial, operational, and commercial risks.
- Provide assurance to the Board regarding reporting integrity, financial resilience, and control effectiveness.
- Drive continuous improvement in financial processes, systems, and controls.
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Cash, Capital & Financial Management
- Optimise cash generation, working capital, and balance sheet performance.
- Ensure capital is deployed effectively against strategic priorities.
- Support investment decisions through rigorous financial analysis and performance evaluation.
- Monitor financial resilience and support sustainable business growth.
Data, Technology & Transformation
- Lead the development of reporting, analytics, and business intelligence capabilities.
- Drive improved use of data to enhance decision-making and performance management.
- Sponsor finance transformation and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support the implementation of technology, automation, and process improvements that increase efficiency and scalability.
Leadership & Team Development
- Lead and develop a high-performing finance function (circa 5 people currently).
- Create a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Build strong finance business partnering capability across the organisation.
- Develop leadership capability, succession plans, and future talent within the finance team.
- Act as a role model for collaboration, integrity, and commercial excellence.
What Success Looks Like
- Delivery of revenue, profit, EBITDA, cash flow, and return targets.
- Improved customer, product, and channel profitability.
- High-quality financial planning, forecasting, and decision support.
- Strong commercial partnering across the business.
- Effective capital allocation and investment returns.
- Robust financial controls with no material audit, compliance, or reporting issues.
- Timely and accurate management and Board reporting.
- Successful delivery of transformation and business improvement initiatives.
- A highly engaged, capable, and high-performing finance team.
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About You
Experience
- Proven experience as a Finance Director or senior finance leader within a complex organisation.
- Must have gained senior finance leadership experience within Utilities, Energy, Infrastructure, or Financial Services sectors.
- Must be able to roll your sleeves up and deal with all levels within the finance team.
- Experience operating within regulated environments is highly desirable.
- Strong track record of partnering Executive Leadership Teams to drive growth, profitability, and business performance.
- Experience leading commercial finance, FP&A, performance management, and business partnering activities.
- Demonstrated success influencing strategic, investment, and operational decisions.
- Proven ability to lead organisational change, transformation, and performance improvement programmes.
- Experience operating at Executive and Board level.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing finance teams.
Qualifications & Skills
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Significant post-qualification leadership experience.
- Strong commercial finance, FP&A, and business partnering expertise.
- Excellent strategic thinking and financial modelling capability.
- Deep understanding of business performance drivers, profitability analysis, and investment appraisal.
- Strong knowledge of financial controls, governance, reporting, and risk management.
- Experience leveraging data, technology, and analytics to improve business outcomes.
- Outstanding communication, influencing, and leadership skills.
- Ability to balance commercial ambition with financial discipline and control.
Reward Package
- £130,000 - £150,000 base salary
- Up to 30% annual performance bonus
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days per week in the office near Chichester on the South Coast
- Senior leadership role with significant influence across the organisation
- Opportunity to shape strategy, performance, and future growth
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