Finance Director

Michael Page Finance; Liverpool City Region; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health cash plan

Birthday off

Liverpool office 2–3 days/week

Flexible start/finish times

Family-friendly organisation

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

37.5 hour working week

Job summary

Michael Page Finance is recruiting a Senior Finance Director for a purpose-driven charity in the Liverpool area. You will shape the finance function, lead a team, and drive strategic partnering with the leadership team to support growth and tender opportunities.

The role involves developing controls, budgeting, cashflow management, and financial modelling for new contracts, with a hands-on, proactive approach and experience in not-for-profit sectors being advantageous.

Qualifications

• Strong financial management and reporting experience.
• Experience driving process improvement and change.
• Financial modelling and analytical skills.
• Commercial awareness and business partnering capability.
• Ability to communicate financial information clearly.

Responsibilities

• Developing and improving finance processes, controls and reporting.
• Simplifying systems and reducing reliance on complex workarounds.
• Supporting contract tendering and commercial decision making.
• Delivering financial modelling for new business opportunities.
• Partnering with senior leaders to assess costs, resource requirements and service viability.
• Strengthening cashflow management and working capital performance.
• Leading, developing and supporting a finance team.
• Driving continuous improvement across the finance function.

Skills

Financial management

Leadership

Business partnering

Financial modelling

Strategic planning

Stakeholder communication

Not-for-profit experience

Job description

If you're energised by the opportunity to build, improve and influence, this role offers the chance to make a real impact. You'll have the freedom to shape the finance function, strengthen processes and drive a strong business partnering culture. Working closely with an ambitious leadership team, you'll support strategic decisions, commercial opportunities and the organisation's long-term growth and success.

Client Details

This is an opportunity to step into a senior finance leadership role where you can genuinely make a difference.

You will be working for a purpose driven organisation who deliver life changing services across the community. As they continue to grow, secure new contracts and expand their impact, they are looking for a commercially minded Finance Director who wants to shape the future, not just report on the past.

This isn't a role where you'll inherit a perfectly polished finance function. There is some work to do, systems to improve, systems to embed and opportunities to assess. For the right person, that's exactly what makes it exciting.

You'll have the freedom to put your own stamp on the role, modernise ways of working and build robust financial processes that support a growing organisation.

Description

The organisation has growth plans, a strong and engaged leadership team, and a healthy appetite for using finance as a strategic partner across the business. Finance is involved in key decision making, major tender opportunities and organisational planning.

You'll play a leading role in:

• Developing and improving finance processes, controls and reporting
• Simplifying systems and reducing reliance on complex workarounds
• Supporting contract tendering and commercial decision making
• Delivering financial modelling for new business opportunities
• Partnering with senior leaders to assess costs, resource requirements and service viability
• Strengthening cashflow management and working capital performance
• Leading, developing and supporting a committed finance team
• Driving continuous improvement across the finance function

Profile

We're looking for a finance professional with experience leading a finance team and partnering with senior stakeholders. You will bring:

• Strong financial management and reporting experience
• Experience driving process improvement and change
• Financial modelling and analytical skills
• Commercial awareness and business partnering capability
• The ability to communicate financial information in a clear and engaging way
• A proactive, hands-on approach
• Experience within the charity, education, social care, housing or other not for profit sectors would be advantageous but is not essential

Job Offer

• 37.5 hour working week.
• 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Liverpool 2/3 days office working per week
• Flexible start and finish time
• Family friendly organisation
• Health cash plan
• Birthday off