Head of Finance - Operations

Adapro Talent Partners are delighted to be supporting a large PE Backed Hospitality/Retail business with their recruitment of a Head of Finance - Operations.

The Head of Finance - Operations is a permanent position, based out of the company's Bedfordshire Head Office, and it will report into the Finance Director, and lead a team of 5.

As Head of Operations Finance, you'll be the trusted financial partner to the Operations teams, providing commercial insight, challenge and support across a large, complex, multi-site estate.
You'll lead a high-performing finance team while driving the financial performance agenda, ensuring robust controls, accurate forecasting and meaningful reporting that helps operational leaders make informed decisions.

This role offers a unique blend of strategic leadership, commercial business partnering and operational finance, making it ideal for an experienced finance leader who enjoys influencing at executive level while remaining close to the operational heartbeat of the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading the Operations Finance function, providing strategic financial leadership across the nationwide estate.
• Partnering with senior operational stakeholders to influence decision-making through insightful financial analysis and commercial challenge.
• Owning the budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning processes for Operations.
• Delivering meaningful performance reporting that identifies opportunities to improve revenue, margin and labour productivity.
• Driving cost optimisation initiatives across labour, utilities, direct materials and overheads.
• Partnering with Operations to improve energy, utilities and ESG cost performance.
• Managing the Finance relationship with Dayforce workforce planning systems.
• Developing KPIs that support operational excellence and productivity improvements.
• Providing financial modelling and commercial evaluation for capital investment, strategic projects and business initiatives.
• Ensuring strong financial controls, governance and compliance across operational activities.
• Leading continuous improvement initiatives across finance processes, systems and reporting.
• Collaborating with Finance, Operations, Property, Commercial and People teams to support wider business transformation.

Our Client is looking for a commercially minded finance leader who can combine strategic thinking with strong operational understanding.
You'll be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment and have a track record of building influential relationships with senior stakeholders.

You'll also have:

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification.
• Significant senior finance leadership experience within a multi-site business.
• Strong business partnering experience with operational leadership teams.
• Excellent commercial acumen and the ability to turn data into actionable business insight.
• Experience leading budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning processes.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Proven experience leading and developing successful finance teams.
• Strong financial modelling, analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience within hospitality, retail, travel, leisure or other service-led organisations.

Our Client is offering a Salary of 100,000 - 110,000 + Car Allowance + 25% Bonus + Benefits.