Director, Finance (maternity leave)

Record Currency Management; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading currency and asset management firm is seeking a Finance Director for a maternity cover starting July 2025. This role involves overseeing financial operations and managing a team, ensuring compliance and operational efficiency. Ideal candidates will have extensive financial control experience and qualifications in accounting.

Benefits

Bonus scheme

Pension with employer contribution

Study support for further qualifications

Private medical cover

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Permanent health insurance

Medical health assessments

Subsidised gym membership

20 Days minimum holiday

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of financial control experience.
• Experience with UK accounting and corporate taxation rules.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily accounting operations and financial reporting.
• Ensure compliance with statutory laws and regulations.
• Lead and develop the finance team.

Skills

Numeracy

Communication

Leadership

Financial Modelling

Education

Degree

ICAEW, ACA or CIMA qualified

Tools

Excel

SAP Business ByDesign

Job description

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Record seeks a Finance Director for a maternity leave cover from July 2025.

Record Financial Group:

Record is a leading specialist currency and asset manager with $100.9 billion (as at end March 2025) in Assets Under Management. Record's services include currency management, sustainable finance, and asset management. Our clients are largely institutions, including pension funds, charities, foundations, endowments, and family offices.

Record's offices are in London and Windsor in the UK, Zürich, New York, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt. The relevant team are based in the London office.

Position:Finance Director (maternity cover)

Location: 3 Sheldon Square, London, W2

Role: Full time (37.5 hours per week). Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in the office

Reports: Five finance professionals

Line Manager: Chief Financial Officer

Core purpose of the role:

Reporting directly to the CFO, the Finance Director will oversee day-to-day financial operations of Record Financial Group. This role is instrumental in ensuring financial management and operational efficiency of the company.

We are seeking an experienced senior accountant to cover a period of maternity leave from July 2025 for 15 months to ensure the smooth running of the financial control function and the team in this period. This is an excellent opportunity to work for a unique and well established business in the investment management sector.

Key areas of responsibility and activities:
The successful candidate will manage the following on a domestic and international basis:

• Daily accounting operations
• Monthly, quarterly and annual reports
• Regulatory compliance working with key internal stakeholders
• Ensure appropriate corporate tax compliance
• Oversight of the monthly payroll purposes, including annual payroll related returns and share based payments
• Ensure compliance with statutory laws and regulations
• Coordinate the audit process with colleagues
• Assist with budgets and forecasts where required
• Support the CFO in presenting reports to senior leadership and board
• Lead, coach and develop the finance team
• Conduct regular 1-2-1s
• Direction and involvement in related ad hoc projects
• Responsible for maintaining and improving current processes, procedures and formats, including the generation of ideas to the implementation of new methods of working and the maintenance of accurate system, policies and procedural notes

Requirements:

• Educated to Degree standard
• ICAEW, ACA or CIMA qualified with at least 10 - 15 years in house financial control/ financial director level experience with a broad commercial management experience and a detailed knowledge of UK accounting and corporate taxation rules from a major commercial sector
• Willingness to learn and input on our international business
• Highly numerate with an advanced proficiency in Excel and a developed skill in financial modelling perhaps developed through FP & A work
• Professional with high energy to learn quickly and master a new brief
• Flexible to the changing requirements of a fast moving company in the global financial services sector
• Open to learning the business and culture of Record Financial Group plc, our sector and our regulatory context to ensure compliance with relevant standards
• Good communicator; careful listener. Confident of leading a team of highly motivated finance professionals
• Ability to work autonomously as well as manage multiple projects and to tight deadline(s)
• Confidence and ability to work with senior colleagues across the Group
• Commitment to meaningful continuous improvement with the proactivity to drive ideas forward to improve efficiencies
• Confident of using different technologies in the finance function for example knowledge of SAP Business ByDesign would be useful
• Be available from mid July 2025 for full time work

Benefits:

• Bonus scheme - paid twice a year (usually November & June)
• Pension - defined contribution scheme: 11% employer contribution plus may elect for additional personal contributions. Some cash flexibility allowed
• Study support for further qualifications. Full support and training from the company and the team
• Private medical (BUPA) employee cover - option to purchase cover for partner and family
• Dental insurance - employee cover and option to purchase cover for partner and family
• Life insurance
• Permanent health insurance
• Medical health assessments
• Ride2Work cycle scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Train travel season ticket loan
• Subsidised gym membership
• Share Incentive Plan (SIP) with Record matching
• 20 Days minimum holiday, discretional additional holiday may be taken

Equal Opportunities Statement

Record is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer. For our employees to reach their full potential they need to feel valued, included and respected. This is the culture that Record works towards and, as part of this, we celebrate individual differences and aim to promote a sense of belonging.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we have an inclusive recruitment process and will hire anyone from any background. Where there are barriers to applying, we are committed to discussing options with you to make the process more accessible and provide reasonable adjustments.