A commercially astute Finance Director with manufacturing expertise
ACA qualified with over 15 years’ experience across manufacturing, engineering, recycling, and professional services. This candidate combines strong technical grounding with commercial leadership, delivering financial turnarounds, supporting M&A, and driving operational performance across complex, multi-entity businesses.
- Proven track record as Finance Director within manufacturing and industrial sectors, overseeing businesses with turnovers of £70m–£100m+.
- Extensive M&A experience — led a full business sale process, navigating financial due diligence, managing advisors, and preparing information memoranda and data rooms.
- Delivered significant business improvements, including turning around a £2m annual loss into £3.6m profit within two years through tighter controls and improved reporting.
- Skilled in cashflow management, working capital optimisation, and financing — including bank covenant management, asset finance, and securing £12m in government grant funding.
- Oversight of multi-site operations and shared service functions, improving efficiency through process redesign, ERP implementations, and shared service centre consolidation.
- Strong background in contracts, project accounting, and cost-to-complete reporting, ensuring accurate forecasting and improved project margins.
- Experienced in managing large finance teams (up to 18 staff) and embedding a culture of continuous improvement, compliance, and accountability.
- Early career in audit and assurance, providing a strong technical foundation in statutory reporting, consolidations, controls, and compliance.
Best suited for: Senior finance leadership roles (Finance Director / CFO) within manufacturing, engineering, recycling, or industrial sectors, particularly where M&A, transformation, and performance improvement are key priorities.
