Head of Group Finance

Location: Belfast

Highly Competitive package available

Are you an accomplished finance leader looking for an opportunity to play a pivotal role within a dynamic, growth-focused organisation? We are seeking an exceptional Head of Group Finance to provide strategic and operational leadership across the finance function while contributing to the organisation's long-term growth and success.

Reporting directly to the Director of Group Finance,this highly visible leadership position offers the opportunity to influence key business decisions, lead critical financial initiatives, and partner with senior stakeholders across this complex organisation.

The Opportunity

As Head of Group Finance, you will lead a multidisciplinary finance team encompassing Financial & Management Accounting, Accounts Payable, and Taxation. You will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality financial reporting, robust governance, and strong financial controls, while supporting significant business growth, investment activity, and strategic projects.

This role combines hands-on leadership of the finance function with a strategic mandate to support new business initiatives, acquisitions, investments, and organisational transformation. You will work closely with executive leadership to ensure financial, accounting, and taxation considerations are fully integrated into decision-making processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide financial leadership across the Group, identifying and evaluating the accounting, tax, and commercial implications of significant activities, investments and transactions.
• Oversee all aspects of financial and management accounting, taxation, accounts payable, statutory reporting and investor compliance obligations, ensuring high-quality information is provided to management, the Board, shareholders, investors and other key stakeholders.
• Oversight of the Group tax function ensuring all filing responsibilities are met across multiple jurisdictions in a timely manner whilst also working with advisors to provide technical and structural tax advice on all key group projects and initiatives.
• Lead and develop a high-performing finance team, fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Provide financial leadership to strategic projects and manage relationships with external financial and taxation advisers to ensure timely and effective support for key Group initiatives.
• Maintain a robust control environment, ensuring compliance with financial, regulatory, and governance requirements.
• Partner with senior leadership to evaluate and support growth initiatives, business investments, and strategic projects.
• Provide commercial insight and challenge to support business performance and long-term value creation.
• Lead complex accounting and finance projects, often coordinating cross-functional teams and external advisers.
• Drive process optimisation and continuous improvement initiatives across the finance function.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders, professional advisers, and external auditors.

About You

We are seeking a commercially minded finance leader who combines strong technical expertise with strategic thinking and exceptional stakeholder management skills.

You will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with a minimum of 8 years' post qualification experience, most recently in a senior finance role in a complex organisation and possess a:

• Proven experience of delivering complex technical financial advice and support to senior management
• Strong experience in financial reporting and group audit
• Possess strong proven commercial, financial and business acumen skills and be capable of leading change.
• Experience of managing and developing a high performing finance team.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Strategic mindset with a practical, solution orientated approach.
• Ability to demonstrate collaborative approach across multidisciplinary teams.

Why Apply?

This is an outstanding opportunity to take on a senior finance leadership role with significant visibility and influence. You will play a key role in shaping the future direction of a growing organisation, working alongside an ambitious leadership team while contributing to major strategic initiatives and long-term value creation.

If you are an ambitious finance leader seeking your next challenge, we would welcome the opportunity to hear from you. To register your interest please share your CV or contact Claire McKee for a confidential discussion. Further details can be found on Clarendon Executive Website. A full candidate brief is available for suitably experienced candidates.