Finance Director

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 11 August 2025
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Finance
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SKILLS

Financial Planning Budgeting Cash Flow Management Financial Reporting Cost Optimization Accounting Financial Analysis Working Capital Management

FULL DESCRIPTION

Summary

Retail Insights seeks a Finance Director to join their team in London. This role offers an opportunity to play a key part in building a portfolio company, with responsibilities including financial planning, cash flow management, and reporting. The ideal candidate will have experience in accounting, a strong work ethic, and a desire to drive business growth.

Key Responsibilities/Duties

  • Prepare annual budgets for effective financial planning.
  • Provide weekly updates on cash flow.
  • Conduct monthly P&L and cash updates for comprehensive financial insights.
  • Evaluate and implement cost optimisation programs.
  • Review intercompany and external loans to ensure optimal financial health.
  • Offer support to sales and operations teams.
  • Lead the Working Capital responsibilities.
  • Manage the Human Resources Financial Planning responsibilities.

Core Requirements/Qualifications/Skills

  • Accounting background. Ideally, more than two years of experience from a Big Four firm.
  • Experience as CFO, Head of Finance or Finance Director from a small or medium-sized business.
  • UK working permit.
  • Media and Conferences industry background preferred but not mandatory.

About us

Retail Insights is part of United Media (https://www.united-media.com/) which focuses on building large-scale industry media and conference products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc.

What we offer you

As our Finance Director you get the unique opportunity to be a key player in building one of our portfolio companies. By providing you with the ownership of our finances, we want to constantly push you out of your comfort zone. You’ll be working out of our HQ in London and to ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:

  • An opportunity for getting operational experience in a start-up or scale-up where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matters to the business.
  • A chance to work closely together with one of our CEO’s on our finances and budgets as well as report to investors on a monthly basis and participate in board meetings.
  • Unlimited growth potential in our company - we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally.

Your responsibilities

Your responsibilities will vary; however, some of them will be to:

  • Prepare annual budgets for effective financial planning.
  • Provide weekly updates on cash flow.
  • Conduct monthly P&L and cash updates for comprehensive financial insights.
  • Evaluate and implement cost optimisation programs.
  • Review intercompany and external loans to ensure optimal financial health.
  • Offer support to sales and operations teams.
  • Lead the Working Capital responsibilities.
  • Manage the Human Resources Financial Planning responsibilities.
  • Offer support to sales and operations teams.

What we expect from you

You possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what you do. You take ownership of everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments. Moreover, you’re humble and you share our passion for building and executing new businesses. Furthermore, we expect that you have:

  • Accounting background. Ideally, more than two years of experience from a Big Four firm.
  • Experience as CFO, Head of Finance or Finance Director from a small or medium-sized business.
  • UK working permit.
  • Media and Conferences industry background preferred but not mandatory.

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