Head of Finance

• Team Leadership & Delivery: Directly manage, mentor, and drive accountability across a 3-person finance team. Ensure the team hits day-to-day deadlines for payment runs, cash allocations, and internal queries with a zero-error mentality.
• Multi-Entity Reporting: Take full ownership of monthly management accounts (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow) across all group entities, ensuring board packs are delivered accurately within 10 days of month-end.
• Commercial Insight & Advanced Analysis: Move beyond basic reporting to deliver deep ratio analysis and marketing financial reporting (ROAS, CAC, LTV, and funnel performance) to help leadership maximize return on ad spend.
• Cash Flow & Financial Control: Maintain strict, active oversight of working capital. Own daily, weekly, and monthly cash flow forecasting and guide the team to hit tight credit control/aged debt thresholds.
• Compliance: Oversee and ensure full compliance across all UK statutory obligations, including HMRC filings, VAT returns, and Companies House requirements with a zero-tolerance approach to late submissions.
• Process Automation: Partner with leadership to continuously improve financial workflows, aggressively leveraging automation, systems (Xero, Asana, Slack), and AI tools to scale the department efficiently.

Requirements

• Proven Finance Leadership: Minimum of 5+ years of experience operating in a senior finance role (Financial Controller, Finance Manager, or Head of Finance) with a proven track record of running and developing a team.
• Multi-Entity & Volume Experience: You MUST have demonstrated experience managing finance functions for multiple companies/divisions simultaneously, ideally within a business turning over £10M+.
• Qualifications: Fully qualified CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent, with strong technical accounting knowledge (accrual accounting, intercompany alignments, and group consolidations).
• Commercial & Proactive Mindset: You don't wait to be asked. You are a self-starter who brings solutions, challenges commercial assumptions, and constantly looks for ways to optimize profitability and cost control.
• Tech-Curious: Highly proficient with modern accounting systems (Xero preferred), project tools (Asana), and a genuine curiosity for implementing automation and AI to speed up reporting.
• Exceptional Communication: Fluent, highly professional English communication skills to confidently business-partner with UK directors and stakeholders.

Benefits

• A high-impact leadership role working directly with entrepreneurial UK directors.
• The stability of a full-time, permanent 8-hour-a-day role.
• Exposure to a dynamic, fast-growing international property investment environment.
• A progressive corporate culture that champions personal growth, ownership, and long-lasting professional relationships.