Job Description:

Finance Director | Derby | £80-85k | Hybrid

The Opportunity

A well-established international engineering business is seeking a commercially astute Finance Director to play a key role in shaping its financial performance and supporting continued growth. Operating within a complex manufacturing environment, the organisation supplies specialist solutions to global industrial markets.

Working closely with the CFO and senior leadership team, you will lead the finance function across multiple international entities, ensuring strong financial control, high-quality reporting, and meaningful insight to support strategic decisions.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible impact in a dynamic and evolving business.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Leadership

• Lead the finance function, driving consistency, efficiency, and best practice
• Deliver accurate and insightful financial reporting to support executive decision-making
• Strengthen financial governance, controls, and policy frameworks
• Support long-term growth through robust financial planning and analysis

Group Reporting & Controls

• Oversee consolidated financial reporting across international entities
• Ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements
• Prepare clear and insightful board-level reporting
• Manage relationships with auditors, banks, and external advisors

Commercial Business Partnering

• Partner with senior stakeholders across operations, sales, and manufacturing
• Translate financial data into actionable insights
• Support strategic initiatives through modelling and analysis

Cash Flow & Working Capital

• Manage cash flow and liquidity across the group
• Drive improvements in working capital performance
• Enhance forecasting accuracy and financial visibility

Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a multi-location finance team
• Promote a collaborative and high-performance culture
• Support ongoing development and succession planning

Systems & Process Improvement

• Identify and implement improvements across finance processes
• Maximise the effectiveness of ERP and reporting tools
• Improve automation, reporting efficiency, and data quality

Risk, Compliance & Governance

• Oversee tax, audit, and compliance activities
• Strengthen internal controls and risk management processes
• Ensure alignment with international accounting standards

About You

You will be a hands-on and commercially minded finance leader with the ability to operate effectively in an operationally focused business.

Experience & Skills:

• Proven experience in a senior finance role within a multi-entity environment
• Background in manufacturing, engineering, or a similarly operational sector
• Strong technical expertise in financial reporting, consolidation, and controls
• Experience leading and developing dispersed teams
• Strong systems and data capability (ERP, reporting tools)
• Ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders

Qualifications:

• Professionally qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent preferred)

Personal Attributes:

• Commercially driven with a pragmatic, solutions-focused mindset
• Strong communicator, able to engage both financial and non-financial audiences
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach
• High level of integrity and professionalism

Why Apply?

• Senior leadership role with real influence on business direction
• Exposure to international operations within a growing organisation
• Opportunity to drive improvements and modernisation across finance
• Collaborative leadership team and forward-looking environment
• Flexible hybrid working model

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