Finance Director – Global Business Units

Commercial Strategy & Business Partnering

• Partner with senior leaders/partners in Global Business units to develop, refine, and track the organisation’s commercial strategy
• Provide strategic insight into pricing, pipeline performance, and profitability to influence decision-making
• Act as a trusted and balanced challenger, bringing commercial rigour and financial clarity to discussions
• Identify levers for revenue and margin optimisation, including pricing discipline and resource utilisation
• Drive business unit ownership of financial metrics, particularly DSO

Risk management, Financial and Business Controls

• Take full ownership of financial controls across the Global Business units, ensuring the Group Financial framework is applied consistently
• Ensure business controls are in place that align to agreed upon Global Policies
• Ensure Financial and Business controls are regularly tested for effectiveness and remediation action taken
• Ensure Global Business unit commercial and financial risks are identified and mitigated in line with acceptable risk levels in line with ERM risk management framework.

Transformation & Continuous Improvement

• Lead Global Business unit finance and commercial teams through transformation initiatives – supporting the change
• Identify opportunities for transformation initiatives within Global Business units and engage with Broader Finance Transformation programme to deliver change

Leadership

• Lead a large team of finance professions, ensuring team right sizing and finance costs are in line with benchmarks for similar sized organisations
• Motivate and develop team members, ensure robust succession planning is in place for key roles
• Manage performance across the team, ensuring objectives are set and regularly reviewed and any under performance is managed in line with ERM performance management policies
• Be a senior leader across finance as part of the Finance Leadership Team (FLT), offering mentoring and coaching to the wider finance function.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Qualified accountant or Financial Analyst (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA etc) with strong commercial finance experience
• Proven experience in professional services or consultancy, ideally within sustainability, ESG, or purpose-driven sectors
• Demonstrated success partnering with senior leadership to shape and execute commercial strategy
• Ability to interpret results and connect commercial data to business performance
• Exceptional communication skills — able to challenge constructively and influence credibly across functions
• Experience supporting or navigating business transformation, with the ability to create clarity amidst change

Personal Attributes:

• Strategic yet hands-on, combining commercial curiosity with analytical depth
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment and delivering clarity under pressure
• Collaborative and grounded, with a natural ability to build trust across global teams
• Values-led and purpose-driven, with a genuine interest in sustainability and positive impact
• Confident storyteller who can turn complex data into meaningful business narratives

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