Senior Finance Manager with over 15 years’ experience across global consumer brands, utilities, and document management businesses ranging from £200m to multi-billion turnover. A commercially sharp, people-led finance professional who has built a career business partnering executive and board-level stakeholders across complex, matrix organisations — spanning UK, EMEA, and global functional cost bases.
Currently operating within a globally recognised consumer brand, leading financial planning and decision support across all functional cost areas worldwide. Equally comfortable driving strategic change as they are rolling up their sleeves on the detail.
What makes them genuinely different:
- Business partner to Exec and Senior Leadership teams across global organisations — setting the standard for how finance engages with the business, not just reports to it.
- Expertise across functional cost management, supply chain finance, IT shared services, and trading.
- Led financial planning across global functional cost bases, consolidating regional inputs and holding senior cost owners to account on forecast accuracy and cost control.
- Managed and developed finance teams throughout career — from part-qualified analysts through to senior finance managers.
- Track record of driving process improvement and system change: led SAP implementation, accelerated period-end reporting timelines, and built management information frameworks from scratch.
- Broad sector experience: global consumer goods, energy and utilities, IT shared services, logistics and supply chain, and document management.
- CIMA qualified with a strong academic foundation and a practical, solutions-focused approach.
Best suited for: Senior Finance Manager, Finance Business Partner, or Financial Controller roles within complex, multi-site or global organisations. The ideal hire for a business that wants a commercially rounded, people-focused finance leader who can challenge, influence, and add genuine strategic value beyond the numbers.
