Finance Director

The Accountancy Recruitment Group Ltd; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

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Job summary

The Accountancy Recruitment Group Ltd is seeking a Finance Director for a Manchester-based, hybrid role with 90% remote working. Circa £120,000 - £140,000 plus benefits.

You will join an entrepreneurial accounting firm in a new division and lead it, partnering with owner-led businesses to become sale ready and attract investment or exits. You will work with a portfolio of SMEs, providing strategic financial guidance, challenging board packs, and identifying opportunities to grow and protect

Qualifications

• Solid technical accounting background, potentially from practice.
• Demonstrated SME exit experience with evidence of buyer readiness.
• Experience in PE settings or with MBO/MBI transactions would be relevant.
• Able to engage with owners, investors, and boards at a strategic level.

Responsibilities

• Lead due diligence and assess the robustness of client controls.
• Review board packs, provide challenge and strategic financial insight.
• Identify levers of income and profit to drive growth and margins.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business owners, investors and leadership teams.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Technical accounting

SME exit experience

M&A exposure

Job description

Finance Director

Manchester (hybrid - 90% remote working)

Circa £120,000 - £140,000 + benefits

This is a really interesting, relatively unique and highly rewarding role for an ambitious, highly commercially astute FD. You'll be joining an entrepreneurial firm of accountants in a new division (which you will lead). Your role is partnering with owner led businesses looking to get sale ready, stay sale ready and ultimately position themselves for investment or exit.

You'll be working with a portfolio of businesses, aspirational growing SMEs led by talented leadership teams. You'll be providing the sounding board they need around the factors which ultimately impact their multiple at point of sale.

You'll be supporting with due diligence, reviewing the robustness of their controls and the relevance of their board pack. Providing challenge and support around the levers of income and profit, helping spot opportunity to drive growth, retain margin.

It's more than dressing the shop window for them. It's really becoming that trusted advisor to business owners / investors / board players. Someone who can be part of their growth to exit story and add financial / commercial guidance during the planning and strategy discussions.

Required:

• This is for someone driven, career focused and proactive.
• You'll have a solid technical accounting (potentially having started your career in practice).
• You'll probably have already taken an SME through an exit event - with clear evidence of getting them in great shape and sale-ready.
• You'll potentially have experience of a PE setting (although getting a business through trade sale or perhaps MBO/MBI would also be very relevant).
• Its for someone sharp, intelligent and self-motivated. A commercially aware and modern FD who will enjoy being part of grown up conversations with a variety of business owners / leaders.

You need to be someone who is able to build rapport with a diverse audience of stakeholders. A proactive FD who will be able to get under the bonnet of several businesses in your stable and understand what the levers of success in each setting may be. It's a cracking role - tons of variety, M&A exposure, constant added value activity. Loads of interesting and exciting discussions rather than the grind of month end!

You need to enjoy change, working at pace, partnering naturally ambitious entrepreneurs and business owners. Epic role for the right candidate!