Interim Finance Director
Posted 3 days ago by HAYS
Negotiable
Undetermined
Onsite
Luton, Bedfordshire, UK
Summary: The Interim Finance Director will lead a financial stabilization and commercial transformation for a multi-business distribution group facing margin pressures and legacy finance processes. This hands-on role requires a commercially minded leader to enhance financial clarity and control while acting as a key partner across sales, operations, and procurement. The position demands strong on-site presence and visible leadership to drive change throughout the organization. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in complex, margin-sensitive environments, particularly within distribution or supply chain sectors.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish a clear, credible view of revenue, margin, and profitability
- Analyse performance by business unit, product, and customer
- Strengthen financial controls, forecasting, and cash management
- Improve the quality, accuracy, and usability of management information
- Reduce reliance on anecdotal and sales led reporting
- Modernise finance processes and introduce scalable ways of working
- Lead, motivate, and uplift a small, established finance team
- Act as a commercial partner to sales and operations, improving pricing and margin discipline
- Build finance capability capable of supporting significant top line growth
Key Skills:
- Experienced Interim Finance Director or CFO with a proven track record
- Experience in distribution, wholesale, or supply chain led businesses
- High volume, SKU rich operating models
- Leading finance teams through change and transformation
- Strengthening controls, insight, and commercial decision making
- Highly analytical and data driven
- Commercially astute with strong business partnering capability
- Comfortable operating in imperfect or fast moving environments
- Hands on, pragmatic, and delivery focused
- Confident in influencing senior stakeholders and challenging constructively
- Experience with ERP systems in Legacy or under performing states
- Strong understanding of working capital, margin management, and forecasting
Salary (Rate): Competitive day rate GBP
City: Luton
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Interim Finance Director
The OpportunityAn established, multi business distribution group is seeking an Interim Finance Director to lead a period of financial stabilisation and commercial transformation.The company operates high volume, warehouse led distribution models with broad product ranges, strong supplier relationships, and a shared customer base across multiple operating units. While fundamentally sound, the group is experiencing margin pressure, Legacy finance processes, and seeks improved commercial insight.This is a hands on interim assignment requiring a commercially minded finance leader who can quickly bring clarity, control, and momentum.
The RoleThe Interim Finance Director will take ownership of the finance function while acting as a key commercial partner to sales, operations, and procurement.This role requires a strong on site presence and visible leadership, driving change not just within finance, but across the wider business.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish a clear, credible view of revenue, margin, and profitability
- Analyse performance by business unit, product, and customer
- Strengthen financial controls, forecasting, and cash management
- Improve the quality, accuracy, and usability of management information
- Reduce reliance on anecdotal and sales led reporting
- Modernise finance processes and introduce scalable ways of working
- Lead, motivate, and uplift a small, established finance team
- Act as a commercial partner to sales and operations, improving pricing and margin discipline
- Build finance capability capable of supporting significant top line growth
The Ideal CandidateYou will be an experienced Interim Finance Director or CFO with a proven track record of delivering impact in complex, margin sensitive environments.
Experience & Background
- Distribution, wholesale, or supply chain led businesses
- High volume, SKU rich operating models
- Leading finance teams through change and transformation
- Strengthening controls, insight, and commercial decision making
- Highly analytical and data driven
- Commercially astute with strong business partnering capability
- Comfortable operating in imperfect or fast moving environments
- Hands on, pragmatic, and delivery focused
- Confident, influencing senior stakeholders and challenging constructively.
- Experience working with ERP systems in Legacy or under performing states
- Strong understanding of working capital, margin management, and forecasting
- 6 month interim assignment
- On site role based in Luton
- Competitive day rate, dependent on experience
- Immediate or short notice availability preferred
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