Finance Director

Job title: Finance Director

Package: £100k+ base salary, performance-related annual bonus and long-term incentive / EMI structure

Location: Bristol with travel to London

Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer / Board

Job type: Part time

Our Client

Our client is an ambitious, growing financial services group based in Bristol. The business is focused on becoming scalable, saleable and operationally excellent, with finance playing a central role in supporting that growth.

Finance Director – The Role

This is a pivotal opportunity for an experienced Finance Director to provide strategic financial leadership to a high-growth financial services business. Working closely with the Chief Executive Officer and Board, you will help design and deliver the Group’s financial roadmap while leading the finance function, strengthening financial control and providing clear, actionable management information.

The role offers the opportunity to evolve into a Group CFO position as the business scales.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Partnering with the CEO and Board to design and deliver the financial roadmap for growth;

• Developing and maintaining a robust 3–5 year integrated financial model aligned to organic and acquisition growth;

• Providing rigorous financial analysis, scenario planning and commercial insight to support strategic decision-making;

• Preparing and presenting monthly Board packs, KPI analysis, variance reporting and commercial insight to Executive and Non-Executive Directors;

• Setting the framework and standards for management information, including KPI dashboards covering funds under management growth, revenue yield, adviser productivity, margins and cash performance;

• Leading budgeting, forecasting and strategic variance analysis, together with peer-group benchmarking of key financial ratios;

• Taking Board-level accountability for financial governance, including FCA capital adequacy calculations, forecasts, stress testing and escalation of any headroom pressure;

• Maintaining forward-looking capital and liquidity forecasts and ensuring compliance with HMRC, Companies House and audit obligations;

• Setting liquidity ...