Finance Director - Commercial

Artis Recruitment are delighted to be partnering, on a retained basis, with a leading South Wales based employer in their search for a finance director to oversee commercial operations. Working as part of the senior leadership team this organisation is going through some really positive structural, organisational and systems change and they now require a dynamic, forward thinking, commercially biased, finance professional to complement the existing team.

As part of a wider finance function and with direct oversight of 5 people this isn't a run of the mill FD role it's heavily focused on commerciality, forward thinking strategy and ensuring the organisation makes sound and robust commercial decisions. You'll use your significant commercial experience to identify opportunities and concerns and you'll need your strong accounting knowledge to ensure all the necessary financial controls and reporting processes are in place.

As a strong leader with excellent communication skills who really connects with your team you will be able to get the best out of colleagues and enhance their performance through guidance and autonomy. This organisation will benefit hugely from a forward thinking, business partnering, senior finance professional who can make strong commercial decisions, can see the "bigger picture" and who can articulate reasoning for "go / no go" outcomes.

You will be someone who can work collaboratively on strategy around business objectives and profitability all the while thinking about implications of decisions in the medium to long term both internally and externally. With Hybrid working on offer, a market leading benefits package and the opportunity to really develop this position into something special this is one of the best senior finance roles to come to the South Wales market in a long time.

We encourage applicants who are currently working within medium to large organisations, who have recent commercial experience, and who are operating at levels ranging from Senior Finance Business Partner, Commercial Director or Financial Controller through to existing divisional and stand alone Finance Directors. This role is based outside of Cardiff but is commutable by car from most parts of South Wales and also Bristol.

There will be huge interest in this opportunity so in the first instance please get in touch via application and shortlisted applicants will be contacted for an initial conversation.

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