Finance Director

About the role

The Finance Director provides strategic financial leadership and stewardship to support sustainable growth, profitability, and effective decision-making. The role leads financial planning, reporting, governance, risk management, cash flow, and finance operations while serving as a trusted adviser to the Chief Executive Officer, executive team, and other key stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and execute the financial strategy in alignment with business objectives, evaluating growth opportunities, investments, pricing, capital requirements, and financial returns.
• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, scenario analysis, and performance reviews; translate financial data into actionable business insights.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and meaningful management accounts, statutory reports, board materials, and financial dashboards.
• Maintain a robust internal control framework, accounting policies, delegated authorities, and financial procedures that safeguard company assets.
• Optimize cash flow, working capital, treasury, banking relationships, debt, funding, and capital allocation.
• Oversee financial, tax, audit, insurance, regulatory, and governance obligations; proactively identify and mitigate financial risks.
• Partner with business leaders to improve revenue quality, margins, cost discipline, productivity, and return on investment.
• Build, coach, and retain a high-performing finance team with clear objectives, strong succession plans, and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen finance processes, data quality, automation, and systems to improve efficiency, scalability, and decision support.
• Maintain effective relationships with auditors, banks, tax advisers, regulators, investors, and other external partners, as applicable.

About you

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field; a master's degree is advantageous.
• Recognized professional accounting qualifications such as CPA, CA, ACCA, CIMA, or an equivalent credential.
• Substantial senior-level finance experience, including responsibility for financial planning, reporting, controls, and team leadership.
• Demonstrated success in partnering with executive leadership and influencing commercial and strategic decisions.
• Strong knowledge of accounting standards, taxation, audit, treasury, corporate governance, and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Experience improving finance processes, systems, controls, and management information in a growing or complex organization.
• High proficiency with enterprise resource planning systems, financial modelling, business intelligence tools, and Microsoft Excel.
• Professional working proficiency in English; additional language capability may be required according to business needs.
• Strategic and commercial thinking, financial judgement and analytical rigour, integrity, discretion, and accountability.
• Clear executive communication, people leadership, coaching, talent development, and resilience under pressure.