Chief Financial Officer

Dodd Partners; St Albans; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading education group in the UK seeks a commercially oriented finance professional to lead financial and estates strategy. This role involves maximizing efficiencies and opportunities for growth through enhanced financial planning and control. Ideal candidates will have strong technical and analytical skills and a wealth of strategic experience.

Qualifications

• Wealth of strategic experience in finance leadership.
• Strong technical expertise with complex revenue streams.
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal, and planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial strategy and control across the organization.
• Provide day-to-day management for finance and estates functions.
• Focus on capital expenditure and risk management.

Skills

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Presentation skills

Education

Qualified finance professional

Job description

We are delighted to be working with one of the UK’s most prominent and diverse education groups with a rich history stretching back over 100 years. The group continues to work closely with employers to respond to today’s changing national skills agenda and is well placed to shape their service proposition accordingly both regionally and nationally. To help facilitate this agenda, we are seeking a commercially orientated finance professional to lead the financial and estates strategy to support growth in a sustainable way.

Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will lead the financial strategy across the wider business, ensuring the financial integrity of the organisation through enhanced business planning and financial control to maximise efficiencies and opportunities for growth. You will provide the day-to-day line management for the finance and estate functions with a keen focus on capital expenditure and risk management, along with the analysis of key management information to maintain its strong financial position.

You will be a qualified, commercially orientated finance leader with a wealth of strategic experience, ideally gained within a highly complex, customer centric environment (sector experience is not required). With strong technical expertise, you will have excellent analytical and planning skills and be fully conversant with complex revenue streams and capital investment initiatives. You will possess excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, with the capacity to engage at all levels across and beyond an organisation, to address strategic challenges through deliverable and workable business solutions.

To apply, please forward an up-to-date CV quoting REF DP3136 to [e-mail] at your earliest convenience