Finance Director
Recruiter: Hays Recruitment
Location: Somerset
Salary: £80,000 to £90,000 + bonus & benefits
Application date: 29th Oct 2025
Your new company
A multi-national manufacturing group with a strong presence in their marketplace, this businesses are cash-generative with good P&L and cash flow, coupled with a good pipeline of business / customer base. Yeovil / South Somerset area.
Responsibilities to include:
• Lead the production of accurate and timely management and statutory accounts, ensuring compliance with IFRS and internal policies, and maintaining robust financial controls.
• Forecasting & Budgeting: Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting and budgeting processes, improving accuracy and managing expectations.
• Performance Monitoring: Drive daily and weekly KPI dashboards, conduct variance analysis, and support operational decision-making through insightful trend analysis and business modelling.
• Cost & Margin Analysis: Oversee standard costing, margin analysis, and price pass-through calculations to support commercial decisions and profitability tracking.
• Business Partnering: Act as a strategic advisor to the General Manager, providing financial insights, evaluating investment opportunities, and supporting business change initiatives.
• Project & Risk Management: Lead ad hoc projects, manage capital expenditure reviews, validate costing systems, and oversee risk and advisor relationships.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Develop finance talent, share best practices, challenge existing processes for improvement, and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including auditors and the Group CFO.
What you’ll need to succeed
• Ideally fully qualified in ACA, ACCA or CIMA with demonstrable experience of FRS / IFRS
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills
• Commercial Finance / Business Partnering Mindset and prior experience of site lead / # 1 in a (ideally gained within a manufacturing context)
What you’ll get in return
• Salary in the region of £80-90k + benefits + bonus
• This is predominantly an onsite role, with 1 day WFH on completion of probation.
• Leadership role with autonomy, opportunity to make strategic decisions