Fractional Finance Director
Posted Today by Hawkwood l People & Talent Recruiting
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Fractional Finance Director at Hawkwood involves providing strategic financial leadership to enhance the financial strategy and operations of a recruitment consultancy. The position requires experience in both UK and US markets, focusing on financial planning, cash flow forecasting, and compensation frameworks. This fractional role is designed for a seasoned finance leader who can offer ongoing advisory support following an initial short-term project.
Key Responsibilities:
- Stress-test financial models and challenge key assumptions
- Enhance short- and long-range financial planning
- Build a robust cash flow forecasting process
- Advise on cost allocation and cash management across entities
- Implement effective monthly/quarterly management accounting processes
- Provide guidance on consolidating UK and US financials
- Advise on tax considerations for UK businesses operating in the USA
- Support compliance, entity structuring, and tax-efficient profit flows
- Design new compensation and/or profit-share frameworks for senior leaders
- Align incentives with revenue, profit, and long-term strategic goals
Key Skills:
- Experience in a finance leadership role within a small-to-mid sized recruitment consultancy/executive search firm
- Exposure to UK and US operations, including multi-entity accounting and tax implications
- Strong track record in forecasting, FP&A, budgeting, and modelling
- Ability to simplify complexity and communicate clearly with non-finance leaders
- Commercially minded and collaborative
- Comfortable acting as a strategic advisor
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
About Hawkwood
Hawkwood is a specialist People & Talent recruitment consultancy partnering with some of the world’s most innovative technology companies – from VC-backed start-ups and scale-ups through to global multinationals. Founded in 2016, we operate across the UK, wider Europe, and the USA, helping companies build exceptional People & Talent (HR) teams. We launched our U.S. entity in June 2025 and are already seeing meaningful traction, with a roster of clients across California, New York and other hubs.
About the role:
As we expand, we’re looking for a Fractional Finance Director with experience in the recruitment consultancy sector to help strengthen our financial strategy, multi-entity setup, and leadership compensation approach. This is a fractional role suitable for a seasoned finance leader who has worked within a small to mid-sized recruitment agency/executive search firm, ideally with exposure to businesses operating in both the UK and the US. The engagement will begin with a defined short-term project, followed by an ongoing advisory relationship with periodic involvement (approx. one call per quarter plus prep work).
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Finance & Planning
- Stress-test our financial model and challenge key assumptions
- Enhance our short- and long-range planning
- Cash Flow & Forecasting
- Build a more robust and predictable cash flow forecasting process
- Advise on cost allocation and cash management across two entities
- Management Accounting
- Help us implement a more effective monthly/quarterly management accounting process
- Provide guidance on consolidating UK and US financials
- Tax & Cross-Border Structure
- Advise on tax considerations for a UK business operating in the USA via a US subsidiary
- Support us in navigating compliance, entity structuring, and tax-efficient profit flows
- Compensation & Incentives
- Design a new compensation and/or profit-share framework for senior leaders
- Help us align incentives with revenue, profit, and long-term strategic goals
What We’re Looking For:
Essential:
- Experience in a finance leadership role within a small-to-mid sized recruitment consultancy/executive search firm
- Essential: Exposure to UK and US operations (e.g., multi-entity accounting, tax implications, restructuring, inter-company allocations)
- Strong track record in forecasting, FP&A, budgeting, and modelling
- Ability to simplify complexity and communicate clearly with non-finance leaders
- Someone commercially minded, collaborative, and comfortable acting as a strategic advisor rather than full-time operator
Engagement Structure
Initial short-term project (scope to be defined jointly)
Ongoing fractional support with quarterly finance calls plus ad-hoc advisory
Remote role