Finance Director
- Permanent
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
The details
Finance Director & Company Secretary
Principally Gloucester with occasional working from home
Attractive package which includes a six-figure basic salary
About Lanes Health
Lanes Health has a proud history stretching back over 90 years. Founded by husband and wife Gilbert and Grace Lane in 1930, the business was a pioneer in healthy living, diet and supplementation, using carefully selected plants and nutrients. The company has since passed down the generations and has grown both organically and through acquisition.
Its brands, mainly produced in two advanced manufacturing plants in Gloucester and Lincolnshire, are instantly recognisable and the business is run to this day with a steadfast commitment to those principles on which it was founded almost a century ago. Whilst its roots are firmly in Gloucestershire, the company has both a national and international presence, with a vision to becoming the UK's leading family-owned supplier of branded household health products.
The opportunity - Finance Director & Company Secretary
This is a highly attractive opportunity for an experienced finance professional to join a well-known local success story. The successful candidate will succeed a long-serving incumbent who has overseen a period of significant growth. Reporting to the Lanes Health Executive Chairman, the Finance Director will provide financial stewardship to a Holding company and two main operating companies.
Your responsibilities will include:
Financial
- Overall responsibility for the financial management and planning of all group companies including year-end and monthly management accounting.
- Working in partnership with the Executive Chairman and Senior Leadership Team to help inform and shape commercial decision-making and strategic initiatives, including market expansion, new product launches and acquisitions.
- Provision of timely and insightful reports regarding financial performance on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
- Setting of budgets in collaboration with heads of department. Analyse variance to budget, including quarterly revisions and forecasts.
- Ongoing development and implementation of risk management strategies to safeguard the group's assets and financial health.
- Coaching and development of members of the Finance team.
- Ensuring the continuous improvement of systems, processes and financial controls.
- Maintaining product costing models, including monthly exception reporting.
- Managing the banking relationship, ensuring compliance with all covenants and banking legislation.
- Promoting change by identifying improvement opportunities internally (eg: process) or externally (eg: acquisition or market)
- Management of cash flow, foreign currency exchange, financing and overdraft facilities.
Company Secretarial
- Administration of the group's legal contracts, agreements, and liaison with group legal representatives.
- Management of the group's Intellectual property, including understanding, registering and renewing UK and International trademarks and challenging infringements worldwide.
- Understanding, arranging and maintaining adequate levels of insurance coverage
- Management of the group's responsibilities for its Defined Contribution pension scheme.
Candidate profile
- A qualified accountant with broad experience operating and advising at a senior level, with the desire to be an active participant in shaping future business strategy.
- Experience of working in manufacturing environments. Likely to be an SME with involvement in all facets of the business.
- A trusted business partner with exceptional communication skills able to build relationships cross-functionally at all levels.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to guide and motivate a team.
- A strategic thinker with a hands-on approach when required who can blend the desire to grow the business with the commitment to upholding the values that make Lanes Health the business it is.
- A working knowledge and experience of Health & Safety and HR principles and law is desirable but not essential.
Please note that any direct and third party applications will be forwarded to Lanes Health's retained consultants, Marks Sattin.
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