Head of Finance

Summary

Join Environment Bank's finance team as Head of Finance (maternity cover) and lead both financial control and commercial finance functions. This key leadership role combines financial governance with commercial insights, ensuring robust financial reporting, business partnering, and strategic decision support. You will work closely with the CFO, leadership team, and operational departments to optimize financial performance and drive commercial success. The position requires leading and developing the finance team, fostering a collaborative culture, and driving improvements in financial systems and processes. Environment Bank offers a fulfilling and balanced work environment with flexible working arrangements, mental wellbeing support, and various benefits.

Requirements

• ACCA/ACA qualified
• Commercial acumen. Forward thinker who enjoys working in a dynamic, growing business
• Strong communication skills. Clear and effective communicator of financial information with the ability to build relationships across the business

Responsibilities

• Lead all financial reporting activities, ensuring compliance with UK accounting standards and regulations
• Oversee the preparation of monthly management accounts, annual financial statements and audit processes
• Maintain and enhance financial controls, ensuring strong governance across all transactions and expenditures
• Manage cash flow, working capital and treasury functions, including oversight of debt drawdowns and bonding requirements
• Work alongside the Asset Manager as a key finance business partner to sales, land and operational teams, ensuring financial insights support strategic decision making
• Assist in the development of financial models to assess the viability of habitat banks, incorporating supply and demand dynamics and pricing strategies
• Support CFO in long term financial planning
• Lead alongside FP&A manager the forecasting, budgeting cycles and input to scenario analysis as required, ensuring alignment with the business’s commercial activities and priorities
• Provide pricing analysis and input into pricing decisions across the habitat bank estate
• Drive improvements in financial systems and processes, ensuring efficiency, accuracy and integration with operation platforms (currently Hubspot, Sage & Clickup)
• Lead a process review to improve financial workflows, approval mechanisms and automation of reporting functions
• Lead and develop the finance team, ensuring high performance and professional growth
• Foster a collaborative culture between finance, sales and land teams to improve financial awareness and commercial acumen

Benefits

• Performance-based annual bonus up to 10% of salary
• Pension scheme with employer-matched contributions at 6% of salary
• 30 days of annual leave, plus paid bank holidays, birthday, and wellbeing day
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of annual leave after probation
• Remote and hybrid flexible working options
• Regional and departmental team co-working days
• Expenses-paid whole company meet twice a year
• Team fundraising and charity events
• Ongoing career development with training and mentoring
• Medical cash back scheme to cover everyday healthcare costs
• Employee assistance mental wellbeing support
• Enhanced sickness pay allowance