Head of Finance

Trial Balance; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Head of Finance to join their dynamic team in Plymouth. This permanent, full-time role offers a generous hybrid working scheme, allowing for remote work up to 50% of the week. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in the finance department, leading a small team and overseeing critical financial operations, including budgeting, forecasting, and statutory reporting. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with extensive experience in financial management and a passion for developing others. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a supportive environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Qualified individual (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with 5+ years PQE in a commercial environment.
• Experience in leading finance teams and managing financial controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a finance team while ensuring operational financial control.
• Compile management accounts and oversee statutory reporting and audits.

Skills

Financial Planning and Analysis

Budgeting

Cash Management

Statutory Reporting

Team Leadership

Education

ACA

ACCA

CIMA

Job description

Head of Finance - Plymouth / Hybrid - Up to: £70,000

Trial Balance Consulting are delighted to have been exclusively re-engaged by a long standing client; a highly successful specialist services business delivering a high quality product range to customers throughout the UK. The company seeks to recruit an experienced Head of Finance to join their long standing team. The role is offered as a permanent, full time contract and this employer promotes a generous hybrid working scheme with the potential to perform the role remotely for up to 50% of the working week.

Working closely alongside the company’s highly experienced Managing Director and supervising a small transactional team, this will be broad and varied role where the successful incumbent will assume the finance-number-two position of an efficient and pro-active accounting function. The role will encompass both operational financial control and assist in the delivery of management information to assist with strategy management. Key responsibilities include:

1. Lead, develop and mentor a growing finance team
2. Financial planning and analysis
3. Budgeting and cash management/forecasting
4. Compile high quality management accounts with accompanying commentary
5. Ensure high quality, compliant statutory reporting and annual financial statements
6. Oversee several key aspects of the annual audit process
7. Develop and streamline internal financial controls and procedures
8. Act as a key point of contact for external stakeholders - banks, auditors, external shareholders etc.

Who we’re looking for: A technically and commercially astute individual, the successful candidate will be a qualified individual (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), and probably possess five years+ PQE gained in a commercial environment. It is highly likely that this person will have trained and qualified in practice and their CV will demonstrate impressive career development towards a similar position. A naturally people focused professional, the HoF will lead by example, supporting the company’s history of supporting and developing staff from within. The MD and SMT are openminded and appreciate that the recruitment market place is trickier than usual, so there is no box ticking exercise to complete here, they simply seek a committed, talented and broadminded accountant with genuine motivation to develop.

Intrigued? We hope so. For further details including a detailed company brief, please contact Elle Benjamin with reference EB10454 ASAP. All enquiries treated in the strictest of confidence.