Finance Director / General Manager Full Time

The role

will be 100% office based between 2 sites in South Norfolk (4 days) and Lincolnshire (1 day).

Leadership Context

• Acts as the day – to – day leadership anchor within the business
• Drives accountability and execution across all functions
• Connects Managing Director direction to delivery

Your responsibilities will include:Financial Performance & Commercial Control

• Lead and oversee the Finance function (reporting to the GM), with full accountability for overall P&L performance.
• Maintain a strong focus on margin, cost control, and cash discipline
• In conjunction with the Head of Finance, bring rigour and consistency to financial reporting and operational KPI tracking.
• Ensure financial insight is embedded in operational and commercial decision – making
• Ensure clear ownership of financial performance across functions, not just within Finance
• Challenge performance where required -this role demands commercial rigour alongside strong operational understanding.

Systems, Structure & Process

• Partner with the Managing Director to lead the full adoption and effective use of a new system as the core operating platform across all departments.
• Drive alignment in how systems are used across the business, eliminating duplication, manual work, and disconnected processes
• Ensure the business operates in a joined – up system environment, reducing reliance on manual workarounds
• Develop and deliver a systems and process strategy that supports growth without adding unnecessary complexity
• Strengthen reporting, communication, and management cadence
• Build scalable systems that support efficiency, control, and performance

People & Culture Leadership

• Be a visible, high – energy leadership presence across both sites
• Build trust and credibility at all levels
• Drive a culture of accountability, ownership, and delivery
• Develop leadership capability across site and functional teams
• Maintain the strengths of each site’s culture while strengthening overall cohesion

Operational Leadership

• Partner with the Managing Directors, Heads of Functions, Site and Plant Managers to drive manufacturing performance across both sites.
• Drive pace and discipline in performance management, ensuring issues are surfaced, owned, and resolved quickly.
• Establish clear operational standards and ensure consistent execution across both sites
• Support site leadership teams to improve output, efficiency, and cost control through challenge, support, and shared best practice.
• Leverage group scale in procurement, supplier management, and cost control to improve performance
• Champion continuous improvement, ensuring ideas and efficiencies move across sites -not remain isolated

People & Culture Leadership

• Be a visible, high – energy leadership presence across both sites
• Build trust and credibility at all levels
• Drive a culture of accountability, ownership, and delivery
• Develop leadership capability across site and functional teams
• Maintain the strengths of each site’s culture while strengthening overall cohesion

Growth & Business Delivery

• Drive momentum behind the next phase of growth, particularly at the Lound site
• Ensure successful ramp – up and integration of the new carousel facility
• Identify and remove constraints to growth -operational, structural, or cultural
• Support commercial teams in aligning capacity with demand

What you’ll need to succeed
You will:

• Be a fully qualified accountant with strong commercial acumen.
• Have a proven track record of delivering systems change, streamlining and efficiency
• Be able to connect operational change to financial outcomes
• Be comfortable making tough, commercially driven decisions
• Have strong experience operating in a demanding and fast-paced manufacturing environment
• Be comfortable working with factory operations on the shop floor and in meetings to effectively business partner.
• Possess exemplary stakeholder management skills, being able to communicate and influence others to achieve common goals
• Be able to build trust with colleagues at all levels.

What you’ll get in return
This role offers a highly competitive salary of c£80-100,000 + company car, pension and 31 days annual leave as standard. This is an office-based role – primarily at their South Norfolk location but with travel required to Lincolnshire to work closely with the newly created operation.

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Company

At Hays we invest in lifelong partnerships that empower people and businesses to succeed. With over 50 years’ success under our belts and a workforce of 10,000+ people across 32 countries, we’ve evolved to put our customers at the heart of everything we do.

From CFO to Newly Qualified, we work with talented finance professionals and match them with organisations where they can achieve a lasting impact.

So much more than specialist recruiters in accounting and finance, what really sets us apart is our knowledge through scale, deep understanding and our ability to meaningfully innovate for our customers. All our consultants have strong relationships across the industry and the support of our extensive global network. That’s why organisations of all types and sizes – from international blue chips to SMEs – trust us to find the people who can help transform their business.

So, whether you want something local or international, permanent, or interim, we have the breadth of coverage and the depth of understanding to help you find it.

We have specialist recruitment teams in the following areas:

• Corporate Governance
• Credit Control
• Part-Qualified Accountant
• Payroll
• Public Practice Accounting
• Public Services Accounting
• Senior Finance – Qualified
• Support, Ledgers & Bookkeeping
• Tax & Treasury

You can rely on us to deliver today and help you plan for tomorrow

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