Finance Director

Here at reed.co.uk, we believe the world should Love Mondays.

**What you’ll do**
- Manage the overall financial health of Reed Online and Reed Learning
- Provide strategic, commercial insight to the Senior Leadership Team, working collaboratively to develop and execute strategies that drive value
- Enable timely and accurate decision making by delivering key financial and management information
- Lead pricing strategies to ensure we create maximum value for Reed Online and for its clients, responding to signals from external and internal sources
- Develop and coach high performing team members that add value to the business
- Ensure all Corporate and Statutory requirements are met, maintaining key external relationships at the highest levels (auditors, bankers, advisers)
- Ensure that procurement processes are operated efficiently and consistently
- Develop commercial analytics for Reed Online that enable the business to cut through and understand the commercial impact of its products and teams, their position in our market, and expose opportunities

**Your skills**
- Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA) with at least 10 years experience in senior Finance roles
- Experienced manager,, contributing at both a strategic and operational level
- Commercial and market focussed acumen at a senior level
- Experience of managing change across a business
- Creative facilitator who can encourage new ideas from others with proven team-based results
- Strategic thinking, with an ability to focus on the detail where necessary
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

**What we can offer you**
- Flexible working, including core hours and location flexibility.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Flexible holiday scheme with the option to buy, sell or carry over up to 5 days a year.
- Moving home leave.
- Financial benefits including pension and health cash plan subscription.
- Enhanced family leave policies.
- Insurance benefits including life assurance.
- Love Mondays events.
- Discount scheme including gyms and popular retailers.
- Range of wellbeing and mental health support avenues.
- Newly refurbished office in an amazing location, with countless bars, restaurants and theatres right on the doorstep.
- Proud winners of:_
- _#1 Recruitment Agency - Glassdoor Best Places To Work 2020_
- _The JobCrowd Top Companies for Graduates to Work For 2021_
- _The JobCrowd Top Companies for Apprentices to Work For 2021_
- **Our values, your values; our future, your future**_