Head of Finance

Job Title

Head of Finance

Working hours

9 am – 5 pm, Monday – Friday (37\.5 hours per week)

Job Type

Permanent

Location

Hybrid (Stockport\-based office, min 2 days per week)

Reporting to

CEO

Responsible For

Snr/Assistant Accountant, Accounts Receivable/Credit Controller

Strengthen our financial governance. Enable smarter decisions. Support sustainable growth.

Innovate Healthcare is seeking an outstanding Head of Finance to lead our finance function, strengthen governance, and deliver the insight that supports confident decision\-making. This is a pivotal leadership role, partnering with the CEO and Leadership Team to improve performance, manage risk, and build scalable processes that support our continued growth.

We are a forward\-thinking healthcare company working in both the private and public sectors. We employ a variety of health professionals dedicated to achieving the purpose at the centre of our practice; helping people to overcome the barriers they face relating to health and work.

As a key member of our team, you will take ownership of financial planning, reporting and control \- ensuring we have the discipline, clarity and commercial insight to deliver high quality services sustainably. You’ll lead month\-end and statutory processes, strengthen internal controls, and partner with stakeholders across the business to improve performance.

What you’ll lead:

• Lead budgeting, forecasting and long\-term planning to support strategic decision making.


• Own month end close, reconciliations and delivery of high quality management reporting.


• Provide clear analysis (KPIs, variance, dashboards) and recommendations to improve performance.


• Own cash flow forecasting, working capital management, and oversee billing, credit control and collections.


• Lead year\-end processes, external audit coordination, and ensure tax and statutory compliance.


• Strengthen internal controls and drive continuous improvement and automation across end\-to\-end finance.


• Build and develop a high performing finance team and improve financial understanding across the business.


• Manage key relationships with auditors, banks, advisers and suppliers.

What you’ll bring:

• A recognised finance qualification (e.g., ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent).


• Strong technical grounding in management accounting, statutory reporting and compliance.


• Significant finance experience, including leading and developing a team.


• Proven ability to build budgets and forecasts, manage month\-end, and deliver insightful variance analysis.


• Strong attention to detail, with confidence owning audit and year\-end processes.


• Clear, credible communication \- able to translate financial data into actions for non\-finance stakeholders.


• Strong cash flow, working capital and risk management capability.


• A continuous improvement mindset with experience improving systems, controls and automation.


• High integrity and discretion, with the confidence to challenge constructively and influence senior stakeholders.

Who you are

You are a hands\-on, commercially minded finance leader who brings rigour, clarity and calm to fast moving environments. You build trusted relationships, communicate with impact, and enjoy improving how things work \- so the business has the insight and controls it needs to deliver quality services and growth.

What you’ll get in return:

• A competitive salary, commensurate with your skills and experience


• Hybrid Working options


• 33 days of annual leave, including 8 bank holidays, plus Birthday Day Off


• Flexible working opportunities


• Enhanced Family Friendly Leave


• Company Sick Pay


• Cash Health Plan


• Refer a Friend scheme worth £250 per successful referral


• Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, including face\-to\-face/virtual counselling

Innovate Healthcare is committed to promoting equality and eliminating unlawful discrimination, and we are committed to building and maintaining a diverse workforce which is truly representative of the society within which we operate. We want to build inclusive work environments, where all our employees have equal opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations . We are part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning that we commit to offering an interview to a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job. We will ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply. If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

A criminal history check may be conducted on the recommended persons for these positions.

If you require any assistance with the application process, please contact the People Team on people@Innovatehmg.co.uk.

Pay: £50,000\.00\-£60,000\.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events


• Company pension


• Cycle to work scheme


• Employee discount


• Health \& wellbeing programme


• On\-site parking


• Referral programme


• Sick pay


• Work from home

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Stockport SK1 1TA: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• Diploma of Higher Education (required)

Experience:

• Financial management: 5 years (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Stockport SK1 1TA

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