Finance Director

H Squared Talent Ltd; Penrith; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency specializing in finance roles is seeking a Finance Director for two growing manufacturing SMEs in North England. The ideal candidate will take ownership of finance functions, lead teams, and provide commercial insights to support business growth, ensuring financial processes are robust and compliant. This role requires a fully qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA individual with hands-on experience in financial management and strong leadership skills.

Benefits

Bonus

Healthcare

Life assurance

Pension

Qualifications

• Experienced in financial management within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Self-motivated and focused on continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Ensure company financial systems are robust and compliant.
• Work closely with Senior Management to strategise and manage.
• Manage the accounting function and create financial reporting packs.
• Lead financial forecasting processes.
• Provide commercial finance support to management teams.

Skills

Financial management

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Continuous improvement

Education

Fully Qualified ACCA / CIMA / ACA

Job description

Establishing and leading the finance function for 2 growing SMEs

Benefits include a bonus, healthcare, life assurance & pension

Board-level opportunity

North England based, across 2 sites

Are you looking for an opportunity to take ownership of your own finance function within a manufacturing business? Well, this Finance Director role can offer you that for not one, but two businesses. It's 2 small businesses (circa £1m and £3m turnover) that make highly specialised equipment, and they're looking for someone who can become part of their senior leadership teams and hold responsibility for all financial aspects of each company's strategy. Both are growing, both are investing to support that growth, and they need your commercial insight to help make this happen.

With products exported globally, you will be investigating, summarising, reporting on, and making recommendations on how to improve the businesses. You will lead the finance teams (each has 1 FTE) and providing a high-quality service to all stakeholders.

This would be a significant step forward for an experienced accountant looking to contribute to shaping a business's future strategy. Your time will be split between their two offices, so you'll ideally live in or around the North Pennines.

You will report to both MDs and be responsible for:

• Ensuring company financial systems are robust, compliant, as well as supporting future business growth.
• Work closely with the Senior Management Team to strategise, analyse and manage, ensuring finance is involved in key business decisions.
• Managing the company's accounting function, including creating financial reporting packs with analysis, statutory accounts and presenting annual accounts to the Board.
• Leading financial forecasting processes.
• Providing commercial finance support to the wider management teams, including things like margin analysis, pricing strategy, and reviewing stock provisioning policies.

The Candidate: Finance Director

You will be an experienced accountant who likes to take a hands‑on approach to all company finance matters, and you'll also have the following:

• Experienced in financial management within a manufacturing environment.
• Fully Qualified ACCA / CIMA / ACA;
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence at all levels;
• Strategic thinker who is self‑motivated and focused on continuous improvement