Job Description

Interim Finance Director | £90,000-£110,000 | Bristol (Hybrid) | 12-month FTC

We’re looking for an experienced Interim Finance Director to lead a finance function through a period of maternity cover, providing strong financial control, commercial insight and confident leadership.

Why join our client

Our client is an established, commercially focused organisation with a collaborative culture and high standards across its finance function. This is a broad senior finance role where you’ll work closely with leadership, influence decision-making and keep key priorities moving.

As Interim Finance Director in Bristol, you’ll have the autonomy to get close to the numbers, support the wider business and provide stability through an important period.

How you’ll make an impact

• Lead the finance function, creating clarity, accountability and a supportive team environment.
• Deliver accurate management accounts and meaningful insight to senior stakeholders.
• Strengthen financial control, ensuring records, assets and liabilities are well managed.
• Improve forecasting and forward-looking analysis to support commercial decisions.
• Lead the budgeting process and maintain clear oversight of financial performance.
• Manage cash flow and support effective working capital and credit control.
• Oversee the preparation of statutory accounts and relationships with external advisers.
• Partner with senior stakeholders, providing constructive challenge and clear financial guidance.
• Keep agreed finance projects and process improvements moving while maintaining business-as-usual delivery.

Why you’re a great fit

You’ll be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with experience operating in a senior finance leadership role.

You’ll be comfortable leading and developing a finance team, communicating with senior stakeholders and quickly getting to grips with a new organisation. Strong technical accounting knowledge, commercial judgement and the confidence to challenge constructively will all be important.

Experience within a complex organisation, international environment or finance transformation project would be useful, but isn’t essential.

What you’ll get in return

As Interim Finance Director, you’ll join a supportive environment where you can make a meaningful contribution from day one.

• £90,000-£100,000 salary
• Hybrid working in Bristol
• 12-month fixed-term contract
• Broad exposure to senior leadership and business-wide decision-making
• A varied remit covering leadership, commercial finance and financial control

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We welcome applications from all qualified candidates who believe they meet the role requirements. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and we’ll provide any reasonable adjustments you may need throughout the recruitment process.

If this advert sounds like you, please apply now or contact jackie@core3.co.uk / 0117 213 0300.
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