Key Objectives & Responsibilities

Phase 1: Stabilisation & Control (First 6–8 Weeks)

• Take ownership of trade debtor performance, introducing robust aged debt review routines and enforcing clear accountability for collections
• Drive a material reduction in overdue receivables, with a specific focus on reducing 60+ day debt
• Act as senior finance lead through the year-end audit process, ensuring balance sheet integrity and providing credibility and confidence to external auditors
• Bring order and predictability to the month-end close and management accounts process
• Review the structure, capability, and ways of working within the finance team and reset roles where required
• Build trust quickly with senior stakeholders through clarity, pace, and delivery

Phase 2: Transformation & Build (Remainder of Contract)

• Support the CFO-led budgeting and planning cycle for the upcoming financial year
• Redesign management information so it is accruals-based, timely, and genuinely useful for decision-making
• Re-engineer historic reporting to correct distorted trends caused by prior cash accounting and audit-only adjustments
• Fully leverage the organisation’s practice management system to deliver enterprise-quality reporting
• Define and document core financial controls, policies, and processes
• Introduce a clear KPI suite covering areas such as lock-up, utilisation, pricing recovery, and partner performance
• Develop board-level reporting that goes beyond compliance and provides commercial insight
• Ensure all changes are clearly documented and handed over for a smooth transition to a permanent Financial Controller