Finance Director

Our client is one of the world's largest publishers with turnover in the region of 1 billion Euros and EBITDA in excess of 300 million Euros. Reporting into a Global CFO there is the requirement to recruit a UK Finance Director, to work with a range of the company's fast growth locally based businesses.



The Job Purpose

“To provide Finance Services to the company’s UK businesses by working with the Finance Team in developing and maintaining processes that will support the UK business goals”



Key Result Areas

To provide services that ensure Finance delivers and continuously improves its capabilities in areas such as:

• Year end statutory audit compliance
  
   


• Tax Compliance
  
   


• Company Secretarial services
  
   


• Pensions compliance
  
   

Provision of commercial support in areas such as:

• Budgets and forecasts
  
   


• Trend analysis
  
   


• Business intelligence analysis
  
   


• Pricing and contract support
  
   


• Advice and guidance

Other responsibilities will involve work with change management, mentoring and managing a small finance team and ensuring that monthly end management reporting to group and the communication back to local executives is timely, accurate and effective.



Education & Competencies

Suitable candidates for this role are likely to have the following qualifications and experience:

• Degree level, qualified ACA or ACCA, and with notable commercial experience post qualification
  
   


• Strong track record of team management and business management reporting
  
   


• Experience of working with or in, an international shared service centre environment
  
   


• Able to act as a business partner for the UK executive teams
  
   


• Prior publishing sector experience is an advantage
  
   


• Strong interpersonal skills
  
   


• Structured and organized
  
   


• Compliant with deadlines, resilience and have a “can do” attitude
  
   

Please email over your CV and cover letter in the first instance