Head of Finance
Salary: £85,000 - £95,000 + car allowance, bonus, private healthcare & benefits
Robert Half is partnering with a high-growth, forward-thinking organisation to appoint a Head of Finance with experience operating in large, complex, professional services environments. This is a senior leadership role offering the opportunity to shape a best-in-class finance function, strengthen governance, and play a key role in strategic decision-making across the business.
Reporting into the Finance Director, you will lead the Financial Control and Reporting teams, ensuring robust compliance, strong controls, and high-quality financial outputs while driving continuous improvement, efficiency, and service excellence.
Key Responsibilities
1. Lead, inspire, and develop the Finance teams, acting as the senior escalation point for operational and people matters.
2. Build a high-performance culture focused on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
3. Ensure full compliance with statutory, regulatory, and internal control requirements, including liaison with auditors and regulators.
4. Own the integrity of financial reporting, including statutory accounts, management reporting, reconciliations, and consolidated reporting where required.
5. Strengthen risk management frameworks, financial controls, and delegation of authority.
6. Drive process improvement, systems enhancement, and operational efficiencies across finance.
7. Partner with senior stakeholders to provide insight, challenge, and commercial support to achieve organisational objectives.
8. Lead and contribute to strategic projects and transformation initiatives across the business.
9. Ensure effective succession planning, resource management, and ongoing development of finance capability.
Person Specification
10. Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA).
11. Proven experience operating in large, complex, professional services-style organisations or similarly structured environments.
12. Strong technical expertise across financial control, statutory reporting, and accounting standards.
13. Demonstrated track record in leading sophisticated finance operations and control environments.
14. Commercially astute, with the ability to identify risk, opportunity, and value creation.
15. Experienced people leader with a passion for developing high-performing teams.
16. Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
17. Resilient, adaptable, and confident operating in fast-paced, matrixed environments.
18. Advanced Excel skills and experience working with ERP and financial systems.
Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training.