SF Partners
Interim Finance Director
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3 -4 Month contract
Outside IR35
£800-900pd DOE
We are seeking an experienced Interim Finance Director to provide visible, credible and hands-on financial leadership within a growing consultancy business.
This is a business-critical appointment requiring someone who can quickly understand the organisation, establish confidence with senior stakeholders and bring greater control, accuracy and clarity to the finance function.
The successful candidate will assess the current financial operating model, stabilise priority activities and lead improvements to financial reporting, forecasting, controls, systems and processes. They must be comfortable working at pace, managing competing priorities and delivering accurate outputs against demanding deadlines.
The Interim Finance Director will be expected to combine strategic leadership with practical execution, working directly with the finance team and wider business to resolve issues and deliver measurable improvements.
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The Interim Finance Director will be responsible for:
- Establishing confidence in the quality, accuracy and timeliness of financial information.
- Providing the Board and senior stakeholders with clear insight into business performance, risks and opportunities.
- Strengthening financial governance, controls and accountability.
- Improving the speed and reliability of month-end reporting.
- Producing robust cash-flow forecasts, budgets and business forecasts.
- Increasing transparency over utilisation, capacity, work in progress, backlog and future revenue.
- Strengthening working-capital management and cash conversion.
- Reviewing the structure, capability and effectiveness of the finance team.
- Simplifying and documenting finance processes.
- Ensuring the business meets critical reporting, audit, tax, banking and regulatory deadlines.
- Creating a sustainable finance operating model that can be handed over effectively to the permanent leadership team.
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Key responsibilities:
- Lead all financial related activities including, P&L, Balance Sheet, Budgets, Forecasts and other operational KPI's
- Produce monthly management accounts and KPI's
- Manage Annual Audit
- Managing/reviewing the annual budget process together with monthly/ quarterly/ 6 monthly forecasting (P&L, balance sheet and cashflow)
- Management of the WIP and Accrued income
- Identify cash flow risks
- Partner with cross functional stakeholders to drive key strategic objectives
- Ensure a robust environment to meet control, reporting and regulatory and audit requirements
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