Position title
Group Finance and IT Director
Description

Employment type: Full-time, permanent

Start: 1 August 2026

Industry: Transport & Logistics / Services

Location: Essex & Hertfordshire (dual-site)

Salary: £120,000–£150,000 per year

Accountancy Capital has been engaged to find a Group Finance & IT Director for a long-established services group — a genuine household name in its industry — trading through multiple brands and entities in the UK and overseas. The group is profitable, expanding, and acquisitive, and this appointment combines complete ownership of group finance with leadership of the IT function, reporting straight to the Group CEO. The client's identity is disclosed at shortlist stage.

Why this role is unusual
Genuine dual-remit director roles are rare: most groups split finance and technology long before this size. Here the two remain deliberately combined, because the group's acquisition model depends on integrating the finances and the systems of each acquired business quickly — and the board wants one director accountable for both halves of that integration. For a technically strong group accountant who enjoys systems as much as statements, it is a seat with unusual breadth and direct board visibility.

Responsibilities

 

What you will own
The group finance function:

Consolidated statutory accounts for the full group — multiple UK and international entities
The group close calendar: monthly, quarterly and annual reporting to CEO and board
Statutory compliance, tax filings and regulatory reporting across every entity
Management information: budgets, rolling forecasts, variance commentary the board steers by
Auditor, tax adviser and banking relationships at group level
Treasury, cash flow and working capital across the trading companies
Acquisition support end to end — diligence, completion accounts, post-deal integration
Leadership and development of a multi-entity finance team

The IT function:

Group technology strategy and the core platforms — ERP, CRM and operational systems
IT budgets, supplier contracts and third-party service management
Information security, business continuity and disaster recovery
System consolidation after each acquisition — one group, one platform direction

Qualifications

The person this suits
ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified with at least eight years' post-qualification experience
Trained at a Big Four or top-tier firm — this is a firm client requirement
Hands-on multi-entity consolidation experience: you have prepared group accounts, not reviewed them from a distance
Fluent in UK statutory reporting and corporate tax compliance
A proven team builder who has grown or restructured a finance function
Comfortable owning technology alongside finance — prior IT oversight, ERP implementation or systems-integration exposure counts strongly
A direct, confident communicator at CEO and board level
Also valued: logistics, distribution or other operationally intensive sector backgrounds; acquisition integration war stories; international entity exposure.

The career logic
This is the destination seat for the group-accounting career path: a Group Financial Controller or Group FA ready for the director title, or an existing Finance Director in a smaller group seeking scale, acquisition activity and a broader remit. Our guide to the Financial Accountant career path from FA to Group FC maps the road that leads here.

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Employment Type
Full-time
Beginning of employment
1st August 2026
Duration of employment
Perm
Industry
Transport and Logistics
Job Location
Dual-site across Essex and Hertfordshire, Essex, United Kingdom
Working Hours
9-5
Base Salary
£120,000-£150,000 Per year
Date posted
July 17, 2026
Valid through
July 31, 2026
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