Finance Director

Big Red Recruitment; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Finance and HR Director to shape financial strategy and resilience. This senior role will influence long-term sustainability and excellence across finance and HR. The ideal candidate will have a professional accountancy qualification and significant leadership experience, overseeing financial planning and reporting. This position offers a salary of £110,000 - £130,000 with additional perks including a company car and healthcare.

Benefits

Company car

Healthcare

Life assurance

Pension

Holiday

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualification experience in senior finance leadership roles.
• Experience in complex, customer-focused organisations.
• Strong communication skills for translating financial data.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial planning and investment analysis.
• Advise the Board with financial reporting insights.
• Ensure compliance and risk management meet high standards.
• Oversee management accounts, budgets, and forecasts.
• Drive continuous improvement across finance processes.
• Line manage the Finance Manager and oversee HR responsibilities.

Skills

Financial stewardship

Leadership development

Risk management

Financial reporting

Governance expertise

Education

Professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent)

Job description

Overview

A newly created board-level opportunity to shape financial strategy, resilience, and transformation in a heritage-rich organisation.

This is a rare chance to take on a senior leadership role that will directly influence the long-term sustainability and success of a well-established membership organisation. As Finance and HR Director, you'll join the Senior Leadership Team and act as a trusted adviser to the Business Director and Board, ensuring robust financial planning, risk management, and operational excellence across the two teams.

This role combines strategic oversight with meaningful impact - you'll align financial execution with commercial goals, oversee group reporting and investment strategy, and champion a culture of accountability and collaboration across Finance and HR. You'll also play a key role in modernising systems, streamlining operations, and embedding financial understanding across all teams.

What you\'ll be doing

• Leading medium and long-term financial planning, investment analysis, and scenario modelling.
• Advising the Board with clear, insightful financial reporting and recommendations.
• Ensuring compliance, governance, and risk management meet the highest standards.
• Overseeing production of accurate, timely management accounts, budgets, and forecasts.
• Driving continuous improvement across finance processes, systems, and reporting.
• Line managing the Finance Manager and overseeing HR responsibilities, fostering a values-led, high-trust culture.
• Driving forwards the internal function, you will ensure value is added across the business to support both today\'s and future operations.
• Building strong relationships with external partners including auditors, HMRC, and investment advisers.
• Define clear objectives, KPIs, and development plans for the Head of People and their team, aligned to business goals and employee experience outcomes.
• Ensuring effective strategies and approaches are in place to attract, deploy, develop, and engage people with the required capabilities to meet current and future needs.
• Oversee the development and implementation of DEI initiatives to create a more inclusive and equitable working environment.
• Shape reward, recognition, and performance frameworks aligned to business growth.

We\'re looking for a collaborative and strategic finance leader who brings:

• A professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
• Significant post-qualification experience in senior finance leadership roles.
• A proven track record of financial stewardship and long-term planning in complex, customer-focused organisations (membership, leisure, travel, or not-for-profit experience is desirable).
• Experience leading and developing high-performing finance teams.
• Strong governance, compliance, and risk management expertise.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate financial data into meaningful insights for non-finance stakeholders.
• A background in finance transformation and process improvement, ideally with exposure to modern finance systems and automation.

Why apply?

This is a unique opportunity to make a tangible impact at the highest level of a purpose-led organisation. You\'ll be part of shaping its future, balancing tradition with modernisation, and building financial resilience that underpins exceptional experiences for its members.

Permanent opportunity

Coventry based office

Hybrid working agreement

Salary £110,000 - £130,000 + company car, healthcare, life assurance, pension, holiday

We are an equal opportunity recruitment company. This means we welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.

We are particularly invested in Neurodiversity inclusion and offer reasonable adjustments in the interview process. Reasonable adjustments are changes that we can make in the interview process if your disability puts you at a disadvantage compared with others who are not disabled. If you would benefit from a reasonable adjustment in your interview process, please call or email one of our recruiters.