Interim Head of Finance

Confidential; Greater Lincolnshire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking an interim chief financial officer/finance leader for a UK manufacturing business. The role focuses on turning around performance, owning the cash forecast, and tightening working capital while reporting to the board.

You will identify where money is made or lost, and drive fixes on the factory floor and in the finance function. You will lead standard costing, BOMs, and factory margins, and develop robust monthly reporting and board commentary to explain the numbers.

Qualifications

• Experience in manufacturing with standard costing, BOMs and factory margin.
• Strong cash flow forecasting and working capital management skills.
• Ability to build actionable reporting and financial insights.
• Proven track record identifying commercial problems and driving improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own the rolling forecast in a cash-intensive business.
• Manage working capital across stock, raw materials, debtors and creditors.
• Analyse product, channel and customer profitability and act on findings.
• Oversee core finance functions, reconciliations, controls and payment runs.
• Drive process improvement across the finance function.

Skills

Cash flow forecasting

Data reporting

Process improvement

Factory margin analysis

Education

Qualified Accountant

Job description

This isn't a caretaker role. It's a turnaround seat with a plan behind it.

A UK manufacturer is in the middle of a deliberate step change: a clear plan to grow both revenue and enterprise value. Finance sits at the center of that plan, and we need an interim leader who can make an impact from week one.

Clean management accounts are the price of entry. The real job is finding where the business makes money and where it doesn't, where cash is tied up, and where cost is leaking, and then going onto the factory floor, and getting it fixed. You'll work directly with the Board to drive, shape and influence decisions.

You'll hit the ground running on:

• Cash: owning the rolling forecast in a working capital heavy business
• Working capital across stock, raw materials, debtors and creditors
• Product, channel and customer profitability, and the actions that follow from it
• Standard costing and factory margin
• Monthly reporting and board commentary that explains the numbers
• Oversee the core Finance function, reconciliation, controls, payment runs, ensuring strong communication through-out the business and to all third parties
• Drive Process improvement

What You'll bring:

• Qualified Accountant
• Manufacturing experience, with deep understanding of Standard Costings, BOMs and factory margin
• Highly capable on cash, with a proven track record of building, owning and acting on cash flow forecasts
• A demonstrable track record of identifying commercial problem, building the case and seeing the improvements through
• Confident with data, ability to build the reporting rather than wait for someone else to do it

If you want an interim role where you'll leave the business measurably better than you found it, we'd like to hear from you.