Key skills
RLeadershipStakeholder ManagementBudgeting
About this role
Role Overview
- Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and capital expenditure planning
- Own and manage group-wide capex budgets, including investment appraisal and tracking
- Partner with senior stakeholders and functional leaders across multiple geographies
- Deliver robust financial analysis to support strategic initiatives and capital investment decisions
- Prepare and present monthly management reporting to senior leadership
- Develop financial models to support investment decisions, M&A activity, and long-term planning
- Support buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence and related advisory work
- Assess acquisition opportunities and support transaction execution and integration
- Drive continuous improvement in financial processes, controls, and systems
- Support integration and standardisation across acquired businesses
- Manage external audit relationships and coordinate audit deliverables
- Oversee R&D tax credit processes and submissions
Requirements
- ACA / ACCA (or equivalent), ideally trained in a Big 4 firm
- Strong FP&A / commercial finance experience in a high-growth environment
- Proven experience owning budgeting, forecasting, and capex processes
- Experience supporting or delivering buy-side and/or sell-side financial due diligence
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including exposure to executive teams and investors
- Advanced financial modelling and analytical capability
- Experience in private equity-backed or acquisition-led businesses
- Demonstrated ability to drive process improvements
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Performance-related bonus
- Pension scheme with matching contributions
- Remote-first hybrid model – use your home as a base and any of our office locations as you see fit
- Work from abroad
- Flexible working hours
- Access to over 60 health disciplines through our Kara Connect Platform
- Continuous Professional development (CPD) programme & funding
- Paid maternity, paternity and fertility leave
- Company and birthday annual leave days
- Death in Service benefit
- Tax saver
- travel and bike to work
- Culture, social, wellness and CPD committees
- Talent Development Programmes
- Access to leading career coach Gerry Duffy