Finance & HR Director

Big Red Recruitment Midlands Limited; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Finance & HR Director to shape financial strategy in a heritage-rich organisation. The role includes overseeing financial planning, governance, and operational excellence within a hybrid work environment. The ideal candidate has significant experience in finance leadership, a professional accountancy qualification, and a focus on modernisation and risk management. Competitive salary of £110,000 - £130,000 plus perks offered.

Benefits

Company car

Healthcare

Life assurance

Pension

Holiday

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualification experience in senior finance leadership roles.
• Proven track record in complex, customer-focused organisations.
• Excellent communication skills for translating financial data.

Responsibilities

• Leading financial planning, investment analysis, and scenario modelling.
• Advising the Board with financial reporting and recommendations.
• Overseeing management accounts, budgets, and forecasts.

Skills

Financial stewardship

Governance and compliance expertise

Communication skills

Team leadership

Financial transformation

Education

Professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Job description

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

The opportunity

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 & HR Director, you ll join the Senior Leadership Team and act as a trusted adviser to the General Director and Board, ensuring robust financial planning, risk management, and operational excellence.

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.