Accounting & Finance Director - UKI

Country Accounting & Finance Director - UKI

We’re looking for an experienced Country Accounting & Finance Director to lead our UK & Ireland accounting function, partnering with senior leaders to deliver strong financial governance, exceptional reporting standards and world‑class transactional performance. This high impact role is at the heart of our UK & Ireland finance team and is perfect for someone who thrives in a dynamic, evolving environment and wants to influence financial outcomes at both local and regional levels.

Reporting into the Regional Finance Director, you will be responsible for the full accounting perimeter across the UK and Ireland. You will lead all aspects of accounting governance, ensuring compliant accounting and reporting, maintaining robust internal controls, overseeing statutory, tax and regulatory compliance, and optimising accounting systems, processes and reporting standards.

You will maximise transactional accounting performance, driving improvement across AR, AP and RTR, reducing net working capital with effective cash management, strengthening relationships with shared services centres and identifying and delivering opportunities for cost optimisation and process efficiencies. You will deliver high quality financial insights, ensuring financial information is prepared to a consistently high standard, provide clear, timely and meaningful financial analysis to senior stakeholders and support business controlling and product teams to drive stronger business decisions.

You will drive continuous improvement and transformation, championing digitalisation, process standardisation and system optimisation, supporting integration projects, new entity set‑up and major regional activities, and collaborating across Finance, Treasury, FP&A and Business Controlling to ensure alignment.

This role will see you developing and leading a highly performing team, coaching and growing a team of 8 direct reports and about 50 indirect heads across the accounting finance team, building capability, driving engagement, development and career progression.

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
• Significant experience in a senior accounting leadership role
• Previous experience in a fast‑paced, multi‑matrixed, logistics environment would be desirable
• Comprehensive expertise across AR, AP, RTR, Tax and Financial Control
• Strong IFRS and GAAP knowledge
• Exceptional communicator, able to shift comfortably from operational detail to executive level insight
• Rigorous, reliable, process‑driven and improvement‑focused
• Experience of using financial systems such as JD Edwards, SAP, One Stream and Medius would be beneficial, however not essential

This amazing role comes with a competitive salary, company car or car allowance, bonus, private medical and so much more.

With a genuine culture of reward and recognition, we want our employees to grow, develop and be part of our journey. We offer a benefits package that includes competitive annual leave entitlement with a fantastic holiday buy scheme, pension and life assurance along with access to an employee benefits platform that offers discounts on gym memberships and money‑off vouchers for a diverse range of retail, travel and hospitality brands.

We value your professional and personal growth. That’s why we share plenty of career opportunities for you to thrive within CEVA. Join CEVA for a challenging career.

CEVA Logistics UK&I is committed to attracting, acquiring and retaining the best possible candidates in an equal and inclusive way that is consistent with employment legislation and best practice. We aim to select the best available person for every vacancy irrespective of age, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, political beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment and marital or civil partnership status.

Please note that candidates will be subject to the necessary right to work checks for the UK and Ireland.