Finance Director

Certsure, home of NICEIC; Dunstable; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Certsure, the home of NICEIC, seeks a Finance Director to join the leadership team. Hybrid role with a base in the UK, leading finance and procurement, ensuring financial stewardship, governance and insight to drive growth, cost control, and value across Certsure and NICEIC.

You will partner with executives to align revenue, pricing, margins and investment with strategic goals. You will oversee financial planning, reporting and risk, while modernising systems and driving cross-functional

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with senior finance leadership experience.
• Experience in complex, customer-facing, commercial or regulated organisations.
• Proven track record in budgeting, forecasting, and investment appraisal.

Responsibilities

• Lead finance and procurement with governance.
• Improve systems and reporting to support strategic decisions.
• Strengthen business partnering across the organisation.
• Link revenue plans and pricing with margins and value.
• Provide evidence-led decision support to leadership.

Skills

Senior finance leadership

Strategic financial planning

Budgeting

Forecasting

Investment appraisal

Business performance management

Financial control

Statutory reporting

Audit

Procurement

Supplier management

Finance systems

Business partnering

Communication

Education

Chartered accountant

Job description

Who we are

Certsure is the organisation behind NICEIC, the UK's largest certification body for electrical businesses. For 70 years, NICEIC has helped raise standards across the electrical industry, and today more than 40,000 businesses carry our certification.

Our work supports technical competence, safety and trust. We also provide training, technical guidance, publications and other services that help businesses and professionals develop and respond to changes across the industry.

We are developing the next chapter for Certsure through a new three-year strategy and Target Operating Model. We have a strong platform, with opportunities to grow sustainably, strengthen the value customers receive and invest where we can make a difference.

About the role

As Finance Director, you will join the NICEIC Leadership Team and serve as an executive member with voting rights on the Certsure Management Board. With our three-year strategy and Target Operating Model taking shape, you will ensure financial insight informs choices about growth, investment, cost, risk and customer value, while safeguarding long-term sustainability.

Working with CEO Clair Mowbray and senior colleagues, particularly the Customer, Growth and Market Leadership Director, you will connect revenue plans and pipeline assumptions with pricing, margins, proposition investment and cost-to-serve. Your modelling, scenario planning and constructive challenge will help us weigh options and make evidence-led decisions.

You will lead finance and procurement, combining strong financial stewardship and governance with a modern, forward-looking service. You will strengthen business partnering, improve systems and reporting, and build financial confidence across the organisation so leaders can take ownership of performance, resources and value.

What we are looking for

You will be a qualified accountant with significant senior finance leadership experience in a complex, customer-facing, commercial or regulated organisation. You will bring a record of strategic financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, investment appraisal and business performance management.

You will understand how revenue, pipeline, pricing, margin and customer value connect to financial sustainability, and have experience of financial control, statutory reporting, audit, risk, procurement and supplier management. You will also have modernised finance systems, reporting or business partnering, and helped non-finance colleagues use financial insight with confidence.

You will be a clear communicator and trusted partner, comfortable offering evidence-based challenge and balancing ambition with affordability. Curious about customers, markets and the drivers of organisational value, you will work across boundaries, make sound judgements and embody NICEIC's values of Curiosity, Courage and Commitment.

Location:

Hybrid, with a base in Dunstable or Chesterfield and travel between sites as required