Interim Head of Finance
Posted Today by Elevation Recruitment Group
£90,000 Per year
Outside
Undetermined
Stockton-on-Tees
Summary: The Interim Head of Finance role is a 3-5 month fixed-term contract based in Stockton, requiring an experienced finance leader to enhance financial processes and reporting. The position demands immediate availability and focuses on delivering value through effective budget management, reporting, and financial controls. The successful candidate will work closely with the board and operational teams to improve financial visibility and efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and deliver the regional budget process, ensuring detailed assumptions around sales pricing and forecasting
- Oversee production of monthly management accounts and improve efficiency of the month-end process
- Present clear, concise monthly reporting to the board in an accessible format
- Strengthen financial controls and improve visibility of performance
- Review and significantly improve the quality of regional MI
- Create new, meaningful MI reports to support operational decision-making
- Drive consistency of MI across the business and improve reporting into head office
- Reduce reliance on manual spreadsheets and streamline reporting processes
- Work with large datasets in Excel to improve analysis and reporting accuracy
Key Skills:
- Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
- Proven experience operating at senior finance level
- Strong budgeting, forecasting and management accounts background
- Confident board-level reporting and stakeholder management
- Advanced Excel and strong analytical capability
- Experience improving processes and driving efficiencies
Salary (Rate): £90,000/year
City: Stockton-on-Tees
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Finance
Interim Head of Finance
Circa £85k
3-5 Month FTC
Immediate Start Required
Elevation Recruitment Group are partnering with a fantastic business to appoint an Interim Head of Finance. This is a 3–5 month FTC, based in Stockton, requiring an experienced finance leader who can add value quickly.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and deliver the regional budget process, ensuring detailed assumptions around sales pricing and forecasting
- Oversee production of monthly management accounts and improve efficiency of the month-end process
- Present clear, concise monthly reporting to the board in an accessible format
- Strengthen financial controls and improve visibility of performance
- Review and significantly improve the quality of regional MI
- Create new, meaningful MI reports to support operational decision-making
- Drive consistency of MI across the business and improve reporting into head office
- Reduce reliance on manual spreadsheets and streamline reporting processes
- Work with large datasets in Excel to improve analysis and reporting accuracy
Key Skills:
- Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA)
- Proven experience operating at senior finance level
- Strong budgeting, forecasting and management accounts background
- Confident board-level reporting and stakeholder management
- Advanced Excel and strong analytical capability
- Experience improving processes and driving efficiencies