Financial Director

Fusion Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading marketing agency is seeking a Finance Director to drive financial strategy and oversee operations during a period of rapid growth. The ideal candidate will have significant M&A experience and excel in building financial models, ensuring the company remains agile and strategically positioned for new opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience as CFO, Finance Director, or Head of Finance in an SME.
• Comfortable working with banks and investors.
• Proactive and assertive with strong relationship skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small finance team and oversee day-to-day operations.
• Create and manage financial models for strategic decision-making.
• Proactively manage cash flow, debt, and funding.

Skills

Financial modeling

M&A experience

Strong Excel skills

Relationship building

Education

Qualified accountant

Job description

This range is provided by Fusion Recruitment . Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

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Recruiting Senior Finance Professionals in the high growth SME (Founder, PE and VC backed) and Mid-Cap environments.

Finance Director – Growing SME Agency – Rigorous financial management and M&A

We’re helping a fast-moving marketing agency find a hands-on Finance Director to join their team. The business is scaling quickly and making acquisitions as part of its growth—so this role is perfect for someone who’s commercially savvy, ambitious, and ready to roll up their sleeves.

At the core of the finance function, you will lead a small but effective team, overseeing day-to-day operations while creating an environment built on high performance. Your leadership will extend beyond routine management—partnering closely with the CEO and senior team to shape budgets and forecasts that not only track results but bring clarity to the story behind the numbers.

You will take full ownership of the company’s financial model, continuously refining and evolving it to guide sound, data-informed business decisions. The model serves as a strategic tool, underpinning planning, investment, and debt management, enabling the business to respond confidently to new opportunities.

As a trusted advisor to the CEO and leadership team, you will help bridge the gap between finance and strategy — translating complex data into actionable insights. Your reporting will need to be clear, timely, and tailored to both board-level and operational audiences, ensuring decision-makers are always well-informed.

Proactive management of cash flow, debt, and funding ensures the business remains financially agile, resilient, and able to invest, maintaining a sharp focus on working capital, and in times of acquisition, you will support due diligence and driving successful post-deal integration.

A continuous improver by nature, you will always seek better ways of working, streamlining systems, introducing automation, or unlocking the power of data, ultimately driving change that makes the business smarter, faster, and more efficient.

What we’re looking for:

• A qualified accountant who’s already worked at CFO, Finance Director, or Head of Finance level in an SME.
• M&A experience is a must.
• Comfortable working with banks and investors. Managing debt is essential.
• Strong Excel skills—You should be confident building robust and accurate financial models from scratch.
• Down-to-earth, proactive, appropriately assertive, and good at building relationships across the business.
• No need to come from a marketing background—your skills are what matter most.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Marketing Services

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