Head of Finance Location: Aylesford Contract: Full time, permanent Salary: £70k - £85k Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer The opportunity An entrepreneurial SME group with a number of trading subsidiaries is looking for a Head of Finance to act as its most senior full-time finance professional and as a genuine commercial partner to the CEO and senior leadership team. This is not a reporting role with some partnering attached. The group already has the disciplines in place; what it wants is someone who can tell it what the numbers mean, why they matter and what should happen next. You will sit with market and brand leaders, challenge their plans, and shape decisions on pricing, investment and where the group puts its money. Reporting to the CEO and attending Board meetings, you will make the group legible through three aligned lenses: the consolidated group, performance by market, and performance by brand or product. Making those views coherent, reconcilable and commercially meaningful is how leadership comes to understand where value is actually created. A part-time CFO provides governance oversight, challenge and mentoring, giving you the autonomy of the top finance seat with experienced support behind it. What you''ll be doing Commercial partnership and decision support Act as trusted commercial partner to the CEO and senior leadership team Partner with PandL owners, market leads and brand leads on planning, forecasting and performance optimisation Provide the "so ..... full job details .....