Interim Finance Director & IT Transformation

Trace – Expert Accountancy Recruitment; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment consultancy is seeking an Interim Finance Director to oversee financial management and lead IT transformation for a diverse organisation. As part of a dynamic team, you'll manage significant financial operations, liaise with senior stakeholders, and ensure continuity during a critical transition period. Ideal candidates will possess strong finance and IT backgrounds, with experience in implementing finance systems and a drive for achieving strategic milestones.

Qualifications

• Qualified and experienced Finance Director.
• Ability to lead commercial analysis and risk management.
• Experience in systems implementation and finance systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage financial oversight and multistakeholder engagements.
• Lead the IT transformation project with cloud transition.
• Supervise and develop two direct reports.

Skills

Communication

Relationship-building

Leadership

Systems Implementation

Financial Oversight

Education

Qualified Finance Professional

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics Business Central

Job description

Interim Finance Director & IT Transformation

Interim Finance Director & IT Transformation

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Interim Finance Director & IT Transformation

• Reports to CEO
• 4 or 5 days a week
• 9 month contract
• FTC or day rate
• £80,000 for 4 days or £100,000 for 5 days

A diverse role for a purpose-led organisation. Reporting to the CEO, you are given a broad scope of work and will be challenged while working within a small, dynamic, and friendly team to lead a finance system implementation.

This is a key hire, and you will engage with a range of senior external stakeholders. You need to be an experienced finance professional with good IT, systems implementation experience, and commercial skills.

Service delivery is key in this opportunity, in addition to excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

We will be reviewing CVs throughout the process so please apply as soon as you are able to.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the CEO, you will have a handover with the outgoing person, and an important aspect is to multitask, ensuring financial oversight and business continuity, whilst the IT transformation project is underway.

Finance

• Your role will be to challenge the numbers, manage the team and lead the budget process, KPI reporting, and risk management.
• Lead commercial analysis, cashflow, and strategy
• Management of two direct reports

IT Transformation

Lead the implementation of an agreed IT transformation involving transition of core infrastructure to the cloud, for file servers, CRM, and the accounting system.

You will be responsible for the overall program, which covers the following over the next 9 months:

• Core Infrastructure – starts July and lasts for 3 months
• CRM into the cloud. 4 months.
• Access Dimensions to Business Central by Mar 2026.

You will also train and develop the two reports to use the new system.

• Qualified and experienced Finance Director
• Able to bring large corporate experience and professional standards to a small organisation
• Systems implementations and change and a deep understanding of finance systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Governance, structure, and controls background
• Drive to achieve targets/milestone and enjoyment for projects.
• Personable and approachable across all levels in a business

Ideally, you will have Microsoft Dynamics Business Central experience (this is desirable rather than essential).

You must be able to commit from July 2025 to March 2026.

This will be a challenging, busy, and varied role with the ability to use your experience for an organisation that has a real social impact.

At Trace, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and believe that, in any business, it is imperative that all members of staff feel appreciated and respected in their roles. Our job is simply to find the best candidate on the market, regardless of their age, race, religion, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other factor irrelevant to their qualifications and competencies.

If you have any further questions regarding accessibility throughout the process, then please get in touch [e-mail] or call a member of our DEIB Champions team.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Accounting/Auditing

• Industries

  Professional Services, Climate Data and Analytics, and Health and Human Services

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