Careers with learndirect Head of Finance
Head of Finance
Through education, people can transform their lives and reach career goals. learndirect has been empowering individuals to reach the height of their potential for many years, with a forward-thinking digital approach.
As the UK’s leading online learning provider, we have helped millions of learners gain qualifications that have led to exciting careers. Our work is to empower, inspire, and transform lives through flexible education made accessible to all.
From Access to Higher Education Diplomas and GCSEs to animal courses and accredited dental nursing qualifications, we offer education to individuals from all backgrounds and at any stage of their life and career.
Through partnerships with industry-leading providers in multiple sectors, learndirect has helped more than 4.5 million learners get the qualifications they need. With rapid expansion well underway, you could become a part of the online solution to educational needs.
Job Purpose:
To ensure the smooth running of the company's finances by managing gains and expenditures. Group Head of Finance responsibilities include keeping detailed records and identifying solutions to problems in financial processes, coaching, directing, and structuring financial team members and projects for best efficiency, ensuring all accounting activities comply with regulations.
To be successful in this role, you should have experience crafting financial strategies and managing accounting teams to maintain our company’s health and increase profitability.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Manage all day to day financial aspects of the company
- Collaborate with other department heads on all financial matters
- Manage cash control and treasury
- Manage short term cash forecasting
- Manage Group accounting. Including monthly close process, board reporting and annual statutory accounts, and annual audits
- Manage VAT and other statutory taxes
- Liaison with external stakeholders as required, e.g. bank, audit & private equity stakeholders
- Manage the financial team including coaching and developing employees
- Partner and lead closely with Head of FP&A
- Ensure impeccable and detailed financial records; oversee that taxes and record filing are done correctly and to government standard
- Responsible for payroll, pensions, company insurances etc.
- Be prepared to make presentations of financial information to colleagues, operational and senior management, and possibly board members.
- Liaise with the CFO on all matters
The above is not an exhaustive list of duties. It is expected the role will grow in scope as the business moves into increased use of regulated products.
What we are looking for in you:
- Qualified senior professional with minimum of 5 years’ experience in a senior finance position - essential
- Business Partner experience with commercial/operational reporting to senior management - essential
- Chartered Accounting Qualification (such as ACCA, ACA, CIPFA, CIMA) - essential
- Experience with leading a team, with Group consolidation
- Experience with using Sage.
- Experience working alongside private equity.
- Experience with Workday.
- Expert in complexed Excel modelling - essential
- Highly intelligent, driven and articulate individual with ability to communicate clearly to senior leadership team as well as at all levels to other stakeholders
- Exceptional communication skills
- Good relationship building skills
Why work with Us?
- Complete a funded course of your choice after your probation period
- Excellent holiday allowance plus bank holidays – to include one extra day’s holiday for your birthday / appreciation day
- £50 Amazon thank you Voucher for your birthday
- Company pension scheme
- Refer a friend scheme
- Inclusive culture and positive working environment
- Staff social events
We are an equal opportunity employer, always looking for the right talent based on merit for every position. learndirect believes passionately in including all employees equally in the learndirect culture and mission. We actively encourage diversity of thought and champion our talented individuals.
Proposition: Empowering people to reach their potential
Our Mission: Removing barriers (time, tech, cost) to enable a ‘learning lifestyle’.
Our Vision: To create the modern approach to learning
Our Values: Working with PACE we strive to be:
Passionate “We show pride, enthusiasm, and dedication in everything that we do, for our learners, our customers, ourselves, and each other”.
Agile “We positively embrace and respond quickly to change through a flexible, proactive workforce that seizes opportunities”.
Courageous “We challenge the norm, creating continuous business improvement and opportunities through entrepreneurial thinking balanced with a sound commercial approach”.
Empowering “We trust and inspire people to do their best and believe in themselves. We are open to a diversity of ideas, approaches, and points of view”.
