Your opportunity:

You'll be joining a successful, privately owned group with ambitious expansion plans and a leadership team focused on taking the business to its next stage of growth.

This is a newly created position reporting directly to the CEO. You'll be the first in-house finance appointment, giving you the opportunity to shape how finance operates, influence business strategy and play a significant role in the group's continued expansion.

You're not following in anyone's footsteps and you'll have the full support of the leadership to drive the function.
It's not a traditional Financial Controller role where your time is dominated by month-end, reconciliations and statutory reporting. Think approximately 70% commercial and operational finance, with 30% financial control and governance.

You will have significant influence over commercial performance and future growth.

What you'll be doing:

A significant part of your role will be working alongside Area Managers and operational leaders across multiple locations (in person visits and online), helping them understand the financial performance of their businesses, and identify opportunities to improve it.

You'll have the chance to:

- Influence business strategy: Work directly with the CEO and leadership team, providing financial insight to support strategic decisions, growth plans and future expansion.
- Drive commercial performance: Work with operational leaders to understand site-level profitability, identify opportunities and translate financial information into practical actions.
- Improve business reporting: Develop meaningful management reporting, dashboards and KPIs that give the leadership team a clearer picture of business performance.




- Introduce a Balanced Scorecard: Establish a broader view of performance, connecting financial results with operational measures and the key drivers of business success.
- Own budgeting and forecasting: Build and improve forecasting processes, providing greater visibility of future performance and supporting better commercial decisions.
- Influence growth: Provide financial modelling, analysis and commercial advice to support the group's expansion plans and ongoing investment decisions.

You'll also take ownership of the financial control environment. The accounting function is currently supported by an outsourced provider, and you'll assess which activities are best retained externally and which should progressively move in-house.

You'll be responsible for reviewing and challenging monthly results, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial information, maintaining appropriate controls and overseeing statutory and compliance requirements.

Who you are:

You'll understand how a growing business operates. You won't need a large finance team or an established corporate structure around you to make things happen. You're comfortable being hands-on, bringing clarity to the numbers and building processes that add value without creating unnecessary complexity.

- CA/CPA qualified,



with a strong commercial accounting background.
- Experience as a Finance Manager or Commercial Financial Controller
- Experience in a multi-site business, where you've worked closely with non-finance stakeholders to improve financial performance.
- Strong budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, and management reporting capability.
- Advanced Excel skills and the ability to turn financial data into meaningful commercial insight.
- An understanding of Balanced Scorecards, operational KPIs and the broader drivers of business performance.
- Understand how a small business drives growth
- Sound financial control experience, including month-end oversight, balance sheet integrity, audit and statutory compliance.
- The confidence to challenge, influence and coach operational leaders, without needing to be the loudest voice in the room.

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