Fractional Finance Director - 1 day per week - 6 month FTC with a view to permanent
Growth-Focused Strategic Finance Leader
Location: Windsor
Commitment: 1 Day per Week
Reporting to: Managing Director & Shareholders
The Opportunity
A successful and ambitious construction business seeking a Fractional Finance Director.
Seeking an experienced Fractional Finance Director who can provide strategic financial leadership while partnering closely with the Managing Director and shareholders. This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of the business, improving commercial performance and building the financial infrastructure required to support sustainable growth.
The successful candidate will be a commercially minded finance leader with a proven track record within the construction sector and experience supporting owner-managed businesses through periods of expansion.
Key Responsibilities
You will work closely with the leadership team to:
- Develop and execute a robust three-year growth strategy.
- Improve profitability, margins and EBITDA performance.
- Strengthen forecasting, budgeting and business planning processes.
- Increase visibility of project and contract profitability.
- Improve working capital management and cash generation.
- Enhance management information, KPI reporting and financial governance.
- Support strategic decision-making at board level.
- Drive shareholder value creation.
- Mentor and develop the existing finance team.
- Act as a trusted advisor to the Managing Director and shareholders.
Construction Sector Experience is ideal
You will have practical experience of:
- Contract accounting
- Work-in-progress (WIP) management
- Long-term contract revenue recognition
- Applications for payment
- Retentions management
- Subcontractor management
- Contractual risk assessment
- Project cost control
- Forecast final account reporting
- Cash flow management within project-based environments
Candidate Profile
Essential
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified.
- Previous Finance Director or CFO experience.
- Strong construction sector background.
- Experience supporting businesses with revenues between £10m and £50m.
- Strong commercial finance and business partnering capability.
- Demonstrable success in improving profitability and cash generation.
- Experience working within owner-managed businesses.
- Excellent board-level communication and stakeholder management skills.
Highly Desirable
- Experience scaling a construction business from £10m-£20m turnover to £25m-£35m+.
- Implementation of project profitability reporting and KPI frameworks.
- Banking, funding and lender relationship management experience.
- M&A and post-acquisition integration experience.
- Private equity or investor-backed growth exposure.
- ERP implementation and finance transformation experience.
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