Head of Commercial Finance

Growth doesn't wait for perfect processes and neither does an IPO. This multi-entity group is going through exactly that process right now, and it needs someone at the top of finance who can bring pace, discipline and real control to a business moving fast on several fronts at once.You'd take full ownership of finance across the group's trading entities, reporting directly to the Group Finance Director with plenty of exposure to the CFO. That means leading the team, running a genuinely disciplined monthly close, and producing management accounts, budgets and forecasts that the leadership team and the wider group can actually rely on. Statutory accounts, audit, VAT, AP/AR controls: all of it sits with you too.It's a hands-on seat. You'll be reviewing your team's work before it goes anywhere, giving straight commercial insight to department heads, and making sure things get closed out rather than left open, especially when a decision is sitting on the number.What you'll bring:ACA/ACCA qualified, with real experience running a finance function across multiple entitiesA track record of disciplined month-end close, delivered to deadline, every timeSolid statutory accounts and audit experience (UK GAAP / IFRS)VAT and wider tax compliance exposureExcel and modelling skills strong enough to build it yourself and defend every number in itThe ability to turn data into something a non-finance person can act onComfort working at pace, under pressure, with priorities that shiftBased mainly from home, with a couple of days a week in the Manchester office.