The Company

An internationally acquisitive global Private Equity backed Business Services business is seeking a Finance Director – Global Finance Shared Service Centre to play a central role within the CFO’s leadership team. The business is focused on driving operational excellence, financial transparency, and the ongoing transformation of its global finance operations.

The Role

Working closely with peers across Treasury, Tax, Procurement, and Business & Financial Control, you will lead a large multinational finance administration function and help shape its evolution.

The remit includes:

• Leading day-to-day delivery across a 150+ person global team, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and high-frequency performance management.
• Driving transformation across end-to-end processes using principles of simplification, standardisation, and automation, with the long-term aim of a location-agnostic model.
• Developing and embedding financial policies, controls, and processes that safeguard assets and support operational scalability.
• Ensuring first-time-right processing of transactions, and partnering across the CFO Office on more complex matters.
• Supporting statutory, regulatory, tax, and audit requirements, and maintaining close alignment with financial control and compliance teams.
• Providing regular insight to the board and executive team on performance, risks, and opportunities across core financial administration processes.

The Candidate

You will bring significant experience in leading large, multinational back-office operations (P2P, O2C, R2R, Master Data Management), ideally within both Private Equity environments and very large-cap settings.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• A recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• A strong track record in process optimisation, automation, and control design.
• Experience managing teams across multiple countries and time zones.
• Confidence operating with multiple GAAP/IFRS requirements and supporting global tax compliance.
• The ability to motivate diverse teams, with strong cultural awareness; multilingual capability is advantageous.
• A pragmatic, solutions-focused approach aligned to growth, efficiency, and value creation.
• Ideally resides in the North West of England