Finance Director (Fixed term, 6-9 months)

Fideres; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Fideres is seeking a Finance Director to enhance financial infrastructure and processes during a vital growth phase. The successful candidate will manage financial systems improvements, lead the finance team, and ensure robust reporting practices while aligning financial and operational strategies for continued success.

Qualifications

• Track record in scaling and managing SMEs effectively.
• Experience working in an international business context.
• Strategic and hands-on approach to finance management.

Responsibilities

• Manage accounting process improvements and automation.
• Oversee financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting.
• Lead and mentor the Finance team.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Commercial acumen

Change management

Team mentoring

Education

Proven experience as a Finance Director

Experience in international business structures

Track record of scaling up SMEs

Job description

About Us

Fideres delivers effective economic analysis and testimony, turning data into courtroom advantage. As global litigation experts, we help law firms secure new cases and offer unbiased, conflict-free insights for complex and innovative disputes. Driven by rigorous analysis, we empower justice—for all—from case strategy to victory.

By dedicating ourselves solely to litigation-based economic analysis, we can provide truly unbiased assessments and maintain our commitment to objectivity.

Our Competition litigation consulting team has provided expert opinions on major antitrust legal actions against Big Tech (including Apple, Amazon and Facebook), Big Pharma, Big Finance and Big Agriculture. Meanwhile our original and innovative investigations into river sewage and Covid-19 have led to national press coverage.

Our Financial and Securities Litigation team has acted as plaintiffs' experts in the most consequential financial cartels and market manipulation cases of the past 10 years.

About this Role

The Finance Director role will be responsible for delivering robust financial infrastructure and process improvements to the business and helping us position Fideres for a period of rapid scaling and growth.

Key Responsibilities

Some notable responsibilities will include:

• Manage accounting process improvements and controls and put forward recommendations on automation of processes
• Identify and roll out improvements to our financial systems/technology, processes and controls (i.e. accounting, time tracking, billing systems)
• Identify providers who can provide international payroll services, to serve all of our international offices
• Consolidate and rationalize our banking needs
• Negotiate with finance providers/banks any required lending facilities
• Oversee our internal financial and business wide reporting including forecasting and budgeting
• Identify and roll out necessary improvements to consolidate our international accounting needs
• Review our systems for tax filing
• Provide recommendations on our legal business structure model and scaling for profitability
• Work closely with our Head of People and COO to align hiring plans with financials needed to make management decisions
• Lead and mentor the Finance team

Key Skills and Attributes

The successful candidate will have:

• A track record of scaling up SMEs
• Prior experience of working for an international business, ideally with a US presence would be advantageous
• Proven experience as a Finance Director
• Experience of international business structures
• Ability and willingness to be both strategic and hands-on
• Commercial and intellectual acumen
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Able to handle relationships and change management sensitively
• Incredible attention to detail
• Ability to mentor the team