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Executive Director, Finance Sutton, Surrey

Location: Sutton, Surrey
Type of contract: Permanent
Closing date: 28 January 2012

Our business
The Finance Division's role is to effectively manage all the financial activities of the company, partnering the business to provide a complete financial and management accounting service to enable the Board and Management to both meet statutory requirements and exercise financial control, and to provide advice and management of all related issues, including tax, Treasury, budgeting and forecasting, and all financial transactions and commitments.

Role and responsibilities
The duty of the Finance Director is to oversee all aspects of the company's financial strategy, the flow of financial information to the Chief Executive, the Management Committee and the Board of Directors and where necessary external parties such as investors, donors and other stakeholder financial institutions and to enable the prudent management of the company's financial resources. He/she is responsible for modernising systems to provide effective management and information, and for providing advice as a business partner on all finance related issues to the CE and senior colleagues across the business.

Qualifications, skills and experience

  • Degree level or equivalent with an Accounting Professional Qualification
  • A broad range of accounting and other financial experience in significant commercial organisations; likely to have held a senior role - as finance director, chief accountant, or similar in a reasonably complex international organisation.
  • Previous Board level experience an added advantage, as is knowledge of professional services/consultancy organisations.

Application process
Please send your CV and covering letter highlighting your suitability for the role and your salary expectations to applications@crownagents.co.uk

Please include in the subject line Executive Director, Finance- R0760