Title: Senior Head of Finance
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
The Opportunity
Robert Half are a retained search partner for a market leading, UK-based professional services organisation seeking an experienced Senior Head of Finance to lead a significant finance function supporting a diverse portfolio of clients and business operations.
This is a highly visible leadership position, responsible for driving financial performance, governance, reporting excellence, service delivery, and continuous improvement across a complex and growing operation. Working closely with senior leadership, you will play a key role in shaping strategy, commercial outcomes, and ensuring best-in-class financial processes and controls.
The role offers an opportunity to lead an established team while driving transformation, process optimisation, and service excellence in a client-focused environment.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Lead the overall finance strategy, operating model, and service delivery framework.
- Partner with executive leadership to support business growth and operational performance.
- Build strong relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders.
- Support commercial initiatives, business development activity, and client presentations.
- Act as the senior point of escalation for complex financial matters.
Control & Governance
- Ensure robust financial governance, controls, and risk management processes are maintained.
- Oversee compliance with regulatory requirements, professional standards, and internal policies.
- Manage internal and external audit relationships.
- Monitor and mitigate financial and operational risks.
- Deliver high-quality governance reporting to senior leadership.
Reporting & Commercial
- Drive the production of accurate, timely, and commercially focused management information.
- Develop meaningful financial reporting, KPIs, and performance dashboards.
- Support strategic decision-making through insightful financial analysis.
- Translate complex financial information for both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop a sizeable finance team.
- Foster a high-performance culture built on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Support succession planning, talent development, and professional qualifications.
- Ensure appropriate resource planning and organisational capability to support future growth.
Transformation
- Champion finance transformation initiatives and operational improvements.
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve controls, and enhance efficiency.
- Drive the adoption of technology, automation, and data-driven decision making.
- Lead change programmes that improve service delivery and commercial performance.
About You
We are seeking a commercially minded finance leader who combines strong technical expertise with exceptional stakeholder management and leadership capability.
You will ideally possess:
- ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent professional qualification.
- Significant senior finance leadership experience within a complex environment.
- Proven experience leading large finance teams through growth and change.
- Strong understanding of financial controls, governance, risk management, and compliance.
- Ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders both internally and externally.
- A track record of delivering operational improvement, transformation, and process optimisation initiatives.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance strategic thinking and operational delivery.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
What's on Offer
- A critical leadership role within a growing and ambitious organisation.
- Significant exposure to executive leadership and strategic decision-making.
- Opportunity to shape the future direction of a large finance function.
- Strong career progression potential.
- Competitive salary, bonus, and comprehensive benefits package
Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.
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