Finance Director

Roam are looking to add a new leadership role for the Finance team. Based at the Roam headquarters in Crawley, West Sussex.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to join a fast growing, private-equity business and progress their career.

Duties and responsibilities

• Maintaining accurate financial records for an infrastructure business and ensuring compliance with accounting standards (including recent changes to lease accounting)
• Preparing financial statements, reports, and analysis to support decision-making up to board level
• Lead a successful audit to a close 4 months post year end (including cashflow, tax, going concern and fixed asset impairment)
• Debt compliance obligations including modelling and drawdown certifications
• Collaborating with finance transformation work and ERP system development to automate and improve manual processes
• Managing cash flow, budgeting, and forecasting processes
• Lead energy procurement for our fleet of assets with their own meter supply
• Overseeing accounting operations, including accounts payable and receivable

Skills and Experience

• Experience in debt financed energy infrastructure and associated contracts
• Experience leading audits to successful and timely close
• Confident in financial analysis, reporting, and forecasting
• Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Strong knowledge of UK accounting legislation such as UK FRS, VAT, payroll, and Corporation tax

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Finance, Accounting or related field required
• Qualified Accountant, preferably ACA or ACCA with Big 4 background
• Nice to have - holding experience using NetSuite or similar

Additional Information:

• Hours of work are 8:30 – 17:00 Monday – Friday
• Salary ~£100,000 plus bonus
• This role is principally office based, with some flexibility available after probation completion

Direct reports

• Yes

Diversity matters! At Roam, we value diversity and encourage individuals to apply, even if their experience doesn't align perfectly with the requirements. You might be the perfect fit.

Why join us? We are an ambitious EV scale-up business with stable employment and a real impact on the world. With the UK's Net Zero target and ban on new petrol/diesel cars by 2030, we have a fantastic opportunity to contribute and enable the EV revolution.