Finance Manager / Controller

📌📌Finance Manager / Financial Controller (Part-Time) 📌📌

Are you an experienced finance professional looking for a part-time leadership role where your expertise will directly influence business decisions and future growth?

We are exclusively seeking a commercially minded Finance Manager / Financial Controller to provide strategic financial leadership, robust financial governance, and insightful business partnering within a successful and growing SME.

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, this is a hands-on senior finance role where you'll take ownership of financial reporting, forecasting, controls, and performance analysis, ensuring the business has the financial insight required to make confident, informed decisions.

This position is ideally suited to an experienced Financial Controller or Finance Manager who enjoys working autonomously, challenging performance, improving processes, and adding genuine commercial value.

The Role

Working closely with the Managing Director, Finance Team Lead and wider management team, your key responsibilities will cover:

• Financial Reporting & Performance
• Cash Flow & Working Capital
• Financial Controls & Governance
• Budgeting & Strategic Planning
• Commercial Business Partnering
• Finance Leadership

About You

You will be an experienced finance professional who combines strong technical accounting ability with commercial awareness and the confidence to influence at senior management level.

Essential Skills & Experience

✔ Previous experience as a Financial Controller, Finance Manager or similar senior finance professional.

✔ Experience within an SME or privately owned business environment.

✔ Strong commercial acumen and the ability to challenge and influence decision-making.

✔ Ability to work independently and effectively within a part-time arrangement.

✔ Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

✔ Proven track record of improving financial processes, controls and reporting.

Desirable

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ICAS/CA) or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of WIP accounting and project costing.
• Experience using Xero and operational management systems.
• Experience managing audits, banking relationships and external stakeholders.
• Previous experience supporting a growing business.

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to take on a genuinely influential role within a growing business where your expertise will help shape financial strategy, improve performance and support future growth in this leadership focused role.

You'll enjoy:

• A flexible part-time working arrangement (approximately 2 days/16 hours per week).
• Direct access to business leadership and decision-makers.
• A varied and commercially focused role.
• The opportunity to make a visible impact on business performance.
• A collaborative and supportive working environment.

If you're looking for a flexible senior finance position where your insight, commercial judgement and leadership can make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you.