Finance Director

UK Finance Director Job Purpose

This is an unique opportunity to business partner with one of the top countries contributing to IWG Profitability.

You will provide strategic and operational financial direction, ensuring robust financial control and compliance through strong collaboration with the Group CFO and Global Shared Service Centre (SSC).

You will work closely with the UK CEO and his leadership team driving Revenue growth and profitability as well as contributing to our Cash targets.

Ensuring compliance with Group, legal and regulatory requirements, identifying and managing of risk will be an important part of the role as well and will allow the person to work with multiple stakeholders across the organisation.

This role will serve as a key member of the regional and group leadership teams, with full accountability for the financial leadership and performance of the UK business within a publicly listed, global organisation.

It will requires a commercially astute and technically strong leader who can operate effectively within a complex, matrixed, and internationally integrated environment.

• Work with the CEO and ensure that business and financial plans are in place and that these meet IWG targets for profitability, growth and liquidity.
• Lead financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes for the UK, ensuring alignment with the FP&A team.
• Drive meaningful performance analysis of the business against the plans and history and provide financial insight into the effects of the business plans to the management team.
• Identify divergence from plans and ensure remedial actions are in place in a timely manner by working with the UK SLT.
• Partner with the Finance leadership team, CEO to provide financial insight that supports business performance, growth, and capital efficiency.

• Build strong relationships across global finance, SSC leadership, and operational stakeholders.

• Review and own all significant investments in the business including acquisition investments and integration, new centre openings, centre closures, expansions, contractions and all significant refurbishments, ensuring that Group ROI targets are met.
• Provide short- andmedium-term performance forecasts as required.
• Drive profitability and cost reductions through financial analysis, cost optimisation and value driven decision support.
• Ensure the cash resources are managed efficiently and in compliance with IWG policies.
• Generally, the oversight of local legal projects / advice will also be part of this role.

Governance and compliance activities are to be carried out in conjunction with IWG Group functions such as Group Finance, Group Treasury, Shared Service centres.

• Act as the key business partner to the Global Shared Service Centre, ensuring high-quality, timely, and accurate transactional finance outputs (AP, AR, GL, payroll, etc.).
• Ensure compliance with all IWG Group policies including (inter alia) accounting policies, treasury policies, HR, Legal and business ethics policies.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant local legal and regulatory requirements including accounting, tax (direct and indirect), and statutory filings by working with the statutory and tax teams.
• Be the face of IWG UK with local regulatory entities including accountants, auditors, tax and other government agencies.
• Ensure processes are in place to make local management and employees are aware of and comply with Group policies as relevant to their role.
• Monitor and assess the impact of all changes (actual and prospective) to local legal and regulatory requirements. Ensure relevant Group functions are aware of changes in a timely manner.
• Monitor and assess all changes to Group policies in relation to local legal and regulatory requirements.
• Identify all conflicts between Group policies and local legal and regulatory requirements. Ensure that Group functions are aware of any conflicts and that mitigation actions are in place.

Working with the local management and Group functions, proactively monitor all actual or potential areas of business risk including:

• Litigation threats
• Customer…