Interim CFO
- Recruiter
- Trace Recruitment
- Location
- Greater London
- Salary
- £120k - 130k per year + bonus + benefits
- Posted
- 30 Apr 2021
- Closes
- 28 May 2021
- Ref
- GDC66745
- Contact
- Gareth Cowan
- Job Title
- CFO
- Category
- Banking and Financial Services
- Experience Levels
- Director
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
If you’re a passionate, smart and driven CFO with experience in an an SME from Financial Services, Fin Tech or SaaS, this a brilliant contract nto get. It's a 12 month Fixed Term Contract to cover the current CFO.
Reporting to the CEO and the Board, this is a hands-on Finance role with lots of strategic and commercial responsibilities. It's a small Finance team, so we need candidates to be hands-on.....
…..if you are from a large corporate environment and like the comfort and support that comes with that, then this is NOT the role for you.
The Responsibilities:
- Full ownership of Financial & Management Accounts, MI, forecasting and planning and all internal and external reporting
- Identify, implement & lead efficient financial and operational processes in order to achieve sustainable growth
- Full responsibility for overseeing the finance function, including reviewing, improving & streamlining accounting & financial management processes
- Produce high-level MI to support key decision-making across the business
- Support the leadership team in terms of business development, modelling and strategic growth opportunities
- Oversee & ensure the production of year end consolidated accounts & financial statements.
- Responsible for all cash-flow, reconciliations, VAT, Tax and GL activity
- Responsible for all financial reporting and control (management of out-sourced provider)
- Responsible for all financial analysis and planning as well as strategic business planning
- Design and implement smart and simple ways of ‘financial story-telling’
- Manage relationships & contractual agreements with external partners & suppliers
- Be a core member of the top senior management team - advising on the growth of the business as well as putting milk in the fridge!
Required skills & experience:
- Must be an experienced CFO
- Fully Qualified CIMA/ACA/ACCA or equivalent
- Previous experience within fin-tech, SME technology, Saas or SME Financial Services essential
- Gravitas and the ability to interact with a very senior board of directors and industry leaders
- A problem solver - someone with energy and curiosity to make finance look easy
- The ability to think big. You will need to build solutions and processes that can scale
- Be more hands-on than you have ever been before (and love it)!
Superb role for someone who is available within the next month, who is open to a contract role.