Interim Finance Director & IT Transformation
Posted 2 weeks ago by Trace – Expert Accountancy Recruitment
£100,000 Per year
Inside
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Interim Finance Director & IT Transformation role involves leading a finance system implementation for a purpose-led organization, reporting directly to the CEO. This position requires an experienced finance professional with strong IT and systems implementation skills, managing a small team while engaging with senior stakeholders. The contract is for 9 months, with a focus on financial oversight and IT transformation projects. The role offers a competitive salary based on the number of working days per week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee financial management and business continuity during the IT transformation project.
- Challenge financial numbers, manage the finance team, and lead the budget process.
- Attend board meetings and lead commercial analysis, cash flow, and strategy.
- Manage two direct reports and train them on the new systems.
- Lead the implementation of IT transformation, transitioning core infrastructure to the cloud.
- Ensure governance, structure, and controls are maintained throughout the project.
Key Skills:
- Qualified and experienced Finance Director.
- Experience in large corporate environments and finance systems.
- Strong understanding of systems implementations and cloud infrastructure.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to drive targets and milestones effectively.
- Desirable experience with Microsoft Dynamics Business Central.
Salary (Rate): £100,000.00 yearly
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Finance
Interim Finance Director & IT Transformation
Reports to CEO
4 or 5 days a week
9 month contract FTC or day rate
£80,000 for 4 days or £100,000 for 5 days
£500 - £600 per day LTD or Umbrella
A diverse role for a purpose-led organisation. Reporting to the CEO, you are given a broad scope of work and will be challenged while working within a small, dynamic, and friendly team to lead a finance system implementation. This is a key hire, and you will engage with a range of senior external stakeholders. You need to be an experienced finance professional with good IT, systems implementation experience, and commercial skills. Service delivery is key in this opportunity, in addition to excellent communication and relationship-building skills. We will be reviewing CVs throughout the process so please apply as soon as you are able to.
Responsibilities
Reporting to the CEO, you will have a handover with the outgoing person, and an important aspect is to multitask, ensuring financial oversight and business continuity, whilst the IT transformation project is underway.
Finance
Your role will be to challenge the numbers, manage the team and lead the budget process, KPI reporting, and risk management. Attending board meetings. Lead commercial analysis, cashflow, and strategy Management of two direct reports
IT Transformation
Lead the implementation of an agreed IT transformation involving transition of core infrastructure to the cloud, for file servers, CRM, and the accounting system. You will be responsible for the overall program, which covers the following over the next 9 months:
Core Infrastructure – starts July and lasts for 3 months
CRM into the cloud. 4 months.
Access Dimensions to Business Central by Mar 2026.
You will also train and develop the two reports to use the new system.
Essential Experience:
Qualified and experienced Finance Director
Able to bring large corporate experience and professional standards to a small organisation
Systems implementations and change and a deep understanding of finance systems and cloud infrastructure.
Governance, structure, and controls background
Drive to achieve targets/milestone and enjoyment for projects.
Personable and approachable across all levels in a business
Ideally, you will have Microsoft Dynamics Business Central experience (this is desirable rather than essential).
You must be able to commit from July 2025 to March 2026. This will be a challenging, busy, and varied role with the ability to use your experience for an organisation that has a real social impact.
At Trace, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and believe that, in any business, it is imperative that all members of staff feel appreciated and respected in their roles. Our job is simply to find the best candidate on the market, regardless of their age, race, religion, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other factor irrelevant to their qualifications and competencies. If you have any further questions regarding accessibility throughout the process, then please get in touch DEIB@tracerecruit.com or call a member of our DEIB Champions team.