Head of Finance

SF Executive; Watford; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A finance recruitment agency is seeking a qualified Head of Finance in Watford. The role involves driving financial strategy, overseeing reporting processes, and ensuring data-driven decisions within a manufacturing environment. Candidates must be ACA/ACCA/ACMA qualified, with experience in private equity backed businesses preferred. This position offers a hybrid work model with four days on-site and a flexible work-from-home option.

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified finance professional with ACA/ACCA/ACMA accreditation.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment is essential.
• Prior exposure to private equity backed businesses is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support COO in operations strategy and cost management.
• Oversee financial reporting processes for accuracy and timeliness.
• Monitor and review key performance indicators alongside reporting.
• Support budget and forecasting processes for operations.
• Provide data-driven insights for business transformation.
• Identify and mitigate operations risks facing the organisation.
• Own product costing and establish transparent cost structures.
• Design and develop a cost-to-serve model.

Skills

Financial analysis

Cost management

Data-driven decision making

Business partnering

Education

Qualified (ACA/ACCA/ACMA)

Job description

Job Overview

SF Executive is partnered with a private equity backed, manufacturing business that is seeking a Head of Finance (HOF). You will report to Chief Operations Officer (COO) and have a dotted line to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

The HOF will drive a strong finance agenda across the operations parts of the business and will ensure the adequacy of systems and controls and adopt a rigorous data driven approach to information management, ensuring the business has the right data and insights to make optimal decisions in line with its operations strategy.

Responsibilities

• Support the COO in operations strategy and recognising that one of the key ways that the organisation captures value, is through superior cost management and service delivery
• Oversee weekly and monthly operations financial reporting processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness and which are action-oriented
• Work with the business to ensure that the appropriate KPIs are monitored and reviewed alongside a robust reporting drumbeat
• Responsible for supporting the operations leadership team in the budget and forecasting process covering operations, supply chain and procurement
• Provide value-added business partnering, by moving through the cycle of providing data to providing action-oriented insights that help transform the business
• Support COO in achieving their organisational goals and ensuring that the operations organisation is making data-driven decisions
• Identify, assess, and mitigate operations risks facing the organisation
• Ensure full understanding of cost drivers and to highlight/advise stakeholders on key variances and how to capitalise/correct on trends
• Own product costing within the business by establishing clear, transparent ways of establishing a fully loaded costs onto each customer/sku combination, which will allow the business to make data driven decisions
• Design, develop and own cost-to-serve model. Use the data within the cost-to-serve model, work with the business to optimise its cost to serve based on strategic goals

Qualifications

The successful HOF will be a qualified (ACA/ACCA/ACMA) and experienced finance lead. You will have worked within a manufacturing environment and you will have ideally been exposed to the pace of private equity backed business.

Work Arrangement

This role is being offered on a hybrid basis. The expectation is to work 4 days from site with a flexible day from home.