Location: On site near Chichester, West Sussex
Pattern: Approximately six days per month, flexible
Day rate: £600–£700 per day depending on experience
Term: Rolling four-week engagement with scope to increase
Start: September 2026
Reports to: The two owner-directors

The opportunity

FD Capital is retained by an established, founder-led construction business in West Sussex to appoint its first part-time Finance Director. The company builds and refurbishes across the south east — extensions, conversions, refurbishment and new build, with a mix of residential and light commercial work — and typically has between nine and fourteen projects running at any one time.

The business is growing and the two directors are carrying the finance function themselves, supported by an external accountant whose involvement sits at arm's length from day-to-day operations. They want someone genuinely embedded in the business: close enough to the sites and the numbers to see what is actually happening, and senior enough to tell them what to do about it.

This is a hands-on appointment in an owner-managed business, not a board advisory role.