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FINANCE DIRECTOR

Woburn, Bedfordshire

Attractive salary & benefits

 

A key leadership position within a diverse property, farming, forestry, sporting, leisure, and hospitality business centred around the Woburn Estate in Bedfordshire and the Bloomsbury district of London.   Working closely with the family and wider leadership team, this role will ensure effective financial management of the current enterprises (including Woburn Golf Club and Woburn Safari Park) and the Estates’ varied urban and rural property portfolio.  It will also help to shape the further development of the Estates with custodianship, innovation and long-term sustainability at their core.

 

THE POSITION:

  • Provide the financial leadership necessary to ensure the on-going delivery of accurate, timely and insightful financial and management accounting across the Estates’ entities.
  • Support senior managers and their wider management teams in the understanding and enhancement of their enterprises through tailored analysis and reporting.
  • Build close working relationships with external advisers to oversee the maintenance of efficient capital and tax structures for the Estates’ entities.
  • Play a key role, as part of the Estates’ senior leadership, in developing and scrutinising business plans and investment opportunities, and reinforcing a positive and inclusive culture.
     

THE CANDIDATE:

  • A qualified accountant with a well-grounded and broad commercial perspective and an empathy for long-term, family-owned businesses. 
  • A confident executive who has the gravitas and communication skills to influence decision-making at the most senior levels.
  • A determined but modest leader who has a collegiate approach and inherently cares about creating and supporting a positive and enjoyable work environment.
  • A consummate professional who has an eye for detail and is intellectually agile but who also rolls-up his/her sleeves to support colleagues to deliver the best result.
  • A knowledge of property, trusts and diverse corporate structures would be advantageous but is not a pre-requisite. 

If you are interested in applying for this Finance Director role, please click apply below now, quoting reference L231 and enclosing a copy of your CV.

For further information please contact Richard Langton at Tarver Melrose (richard.langton@tarvermelrose.com / 020 7917 9456) or the Duke of Bedford (aihr@woburn.co.uk)

Tarver Melrose (www.tarvermelrose.com)