Finance Director

Euro Projects Recruitment - Engineering, Manufacturing & Technology; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Euro Projects Recruitment - Engineering, Manufacturing & Technology is partnering with a specialist engineering and manufacturing business near Oxford/Bicester to appoint a commercially minded Finance Director as part of its growth.

The FD will modernise and strengthen the finance function, influence strategy and drive digital transformation, systems and process improvements across the business. Some hybrid working is available with on-site presence in Oxfordshire when needed.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial finance capability required.
• Experience operating at FD/Finance Director level or ready to step up.
• Experience improving systems, processes and ways of working.
• Ability to challenge and influence the MD and wider leadership team.
• Pragmatic, hands-on approach to change and delivery.
• Ability to turn ideas into action.
• Excellent communication and people skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the modernisation and strengthening of the finance function.
• Define and drive finance strategy to support commercial decisions.
• Deliver digital transformation and systems upgrades.
• Improve finance processes, controls and reporting across the business.
• Provide timely management information and performance visibility.
• Support margin improvement and profitability initiatives.
• Collaborate with the leadership team to drive growth.

Skills

Commercial finance

FD level experience

Systems & process improvement

Leadership & influencing

Change management

Hands-on pragmatism

Communication skills

Job description

Are you seeking FD jobs or Finance Director jobs in Bicester, Oxford, Banbury, Aylesbury, Buckingham or across Oxfordshire?

• FD jobs role ; 70 - 80 headcount technology business - growing SME - position created due to growth
• Business has recently invested £1.1m in new plant/equipment to help drive further R&D projects with blue chip engineering businesses
• Finance Director jobs role - we would also look at Financial Controllers / FC s who are seeking to make that step from an FC role into a FD jobs role / Finance Director jobs role
• Some work from home/hybrid available but mostly on site if possible. Salary TBC likely to be £100,000 - £115,000 but newly created role due to growth so salary is still TBC

We are working with an established and growing specialist engineering & manufacturing business based near Oxford/Bicester that is now looking to appoint a commercially minded Finance Director as part of the next stage of its growth.

This is not a traditional "keep the numbers ticking over" FD role.

The business has good fundamentals, a strong customer base and has grown significantly over recent years. However, some of the infrastructure, systems and processes have not kept pace with that growth.

The FD jobs opportunity is to come in and help change that.

The Finance Director jobs role overview

Reporting directly to the MD, you will become a key member of the senior leadership team/board of directors .The immediate priority is to modernise and strengthen the finance function, but the FD jobs role goes considerably wider than finance.

There is a genuine opportunity to influence:

• Finance strategy and commercial decision-making
• Digital transformation and systems
• Finance processes, controls and reporting
• Business-wide process improvement
• Management information and visibility of performance
• Margin improvement and profitability
• Leadership team development

The current finance function has good underlying fundamentals but is relatively traditional, creating a good opportunity for the incoming FD to build, improve and modernise.

What are they looking for in this Finance Director jobs role?

We are looking for an FD who is commercially minded, hands-on and comfortable with change.

You may have come from a manufacturing environment, although manufacturing experience is not essential.

More important is that you can demonstrate:

• Strong commercial finance capability
• Experience operating at FD / Finance Director level, or potentially a strong FC ready for the step up into a finance director careers role
• Experience improving systems, processes and ways of working
• The confidence to challenge and influence the MD and wider leadership team
• A pragmatic, hands-on approach
• The ability to turn ideas into action
• Strong communication and people skills

They are not looking for someone who simply wants to inherit an established finance function and maintain it

This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys walking into a business, understanding how it works, identifying what needs to change and then getting on with making it happen.

If you are considering Finance Director jobs in Bicester, Oxford, Banbury, Buckingham or the wider Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire area, we'd be interested in speaking with you. Ref : PR/006691

Equally, if you're currently a Financial Controller, Finance Director or senior commercial finance professional and are looking for a role where you can have genuine influence rather than simply manage an existing function, this could be worth a conversation.