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Finance Director – Retail & Mobile
Shape strategy. Drive growth. Redefine finance leadership.
We're seeking an experienced and commercially driven Finance Director to help lead the performance and future direction of our Retail & Mobile business. Reporting to the Finance Director for Technical Services and operating as part of the wider finance leadership team, this is a highly influential role working at the heart of the business alongside operational and commercial leaders.
You'll bring financial rigour, strategic insight and a growth mindset, using data, digital tools and clear storytelling to turn strategy into results and ambition into measurable outcomes.
The role
This role is fundamentally about value creation. As Finance Director, you will lead financial performance across the Retail & Mobile portfolio, working closely with the Managing Director and senior leadership team to translate strategy into robust financial plans, forecasts and decisions.
Your focus will include:
1. Driving revenue growth, margin improvement and contract profitability, including the turnaround of low margin or loss making work
2. Providing forward looking insight through high‑quality analysis, modelling and scenario planning to support strategic decisions, bids and investments
3. Strengthening working capital, cash performance and governance, ensuring clarity, control and confidence in financial information
4. Acting as a trusted strategic partner to operational, commercial and business development teams
You'll also play a key role in shaping the future of finance, challenging existing ways of working and championing digital transformation through automation, data excellence and the responsible use of AI. Central to your success will be building and leading a high‑performing finance team, embedding strong standards for business partnering, insight and continuous improvement.
What you'll bring
You'll be a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with significant commercial experience in complex, fast‑paced environments. You'll combine strong technical and analytical capability with commercial acumen and confident stakeholder presence.
In particular, you'll bring:
5. A proven track record of driving growth and improving profitability
6. Strong analysis, modelling and financial storytelling skills, able to influence senior decision‑makers
7. Experience of leading and developing high‑performing finance teams
8. A passion for digital transformation and data‑driven decision‑making
9. The confidence to operate effectively in a matrix environment and provide constructive challenge
Why join us?
This is a rare opportunity to step into a senior leadership role where finance genuinely shapes the agenda. You'll have the autonomy and influence to drive commercial outcomes, improve performance and lead meaningful transformation across a dynamic Retail & Mobile business. We value insight, innovation and collaboration, and offer an environment where your expertise, ideas and leadership will have real impact — on the business, on our people and on how finance operates.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Gemma Parry at .