An Interim Finance Lead - Due Diligence is required to join an exceptional, investment backed business, based near Haslemere for an initial 3 month assignment. If you are an ambitious and technically astute finance professional looking for a challenging, deadline driven environment then please apply to find out more.

The Role

As the Interim Finance Lead - Due Diligence you will be required to join the existing finance team in a project capacity to directly support the vendor due diligence process, reporting directly to the CFO and working closely with the FC and nominated VDD advisory firm.

You will be required to take on the following core duties but be expected to deliver ad hoc tasks as required by the VDD advisory firm:

• Working alongside VDD advisor and in house finance team on VDD information pack build (financials and tax)
• Reconciliation of financial model (P&L, B/S, cashflow) to ERP and Stats for prior 3 years
• Review, amend and build (where required) 2 yr financial forecasts across P&L, B/S and cashflow
• Update prior DD information packs with current year financials.
• Liaise closely with FC and CFO to identify key data to incorporate within information packs/data room.
• Partner other business teams to extract relevant operational/financial data e.g. E-commerce, marketing, supply chain.

Your Profile

The successful Interim Finance Lead - Due Diligence is likely to be a qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) with experience of due diligence processes in the past, ideally within a fast paced environment (retail or e-commerce being highly beneficial).

You will be intellectually inquisitive and technically strong, with good analytical and modelling skills and proactive problem solving capabilities. Experience using PowerBI is also highly desirable.

The Company

This business is an internationally renowned retailer with a great heritage based near Haslemere.

Salary & Benefits

£500-700 per day. A car will be required to access the office location and there will be an expectation to be on site 2-3 days per week.