Finance Director

Overview

Joining Croud as Finance Director, you will lead the Group’s finance function, ensuring robust controls, accurate reporting, and scalable processes to support rapid growth in a private equity-backed environment. You will partner with the CFO, executive team, and lenders to provide strategic financial insight and governance, while driving the finance transformation, including ERP implementation. Your leadership will develop a high-performing team and elevate financial operations across the group. This is an opportunity to shape finance at a fast-evolving, purpose-driven organization.

Pay / Benefits

• sabbatical after 7 years
• 25 days holiday
• discretionary annual incentive
• health & wellbeing contribution
• pension
• flexible working options

Responsibilities

• Own P&L, balance sheet and cash flow integrity
• Lead month-, quarter-, and year-end close with insightful reporting
• Deliver management accounts with variance analysis and commercial insight
• Maintain robust controls and governance across the finance function
• Drive continuous improvement in reporting, controls, and governance
• Partner with the CFO for board and PE reporting to executives and lenders
• Oversee treasury, cash flow forecasting, liquidity management, and covenant compliance
• Manage tax, audit, insurance, and statutory compliance with external advisers
• Lead finance transformation, ERP selection, implementation and optimization
• Develop and mentor a high-performing finance team and drive succession planning

Key requirements

• ACA or CIMA qualification
• Significant post-qualification experience in senior finance leadership (Finance Director/Financial Controller)
• Experience owning P&L, balance sheet and cash flow
• Strong board reporting and external stakeholder engagement
• Experience with private equity sponsorship, lenders and debt facilities
• Experience leading ERP implementations or major finance systems transformations
• Track record of building high-performing finance teams
• Experience in media, marketing, or professional services sectors

• collaboration
• commercial partnering
• leadership and people development
• finance transformation
• ERP implementation and optimization
• finance reporting and governance

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