Job Description
Our client is a highly acquisitive PE backed business who seek to hire a Senior Finance Integration lead. This role spans the full deal lifecycle-from financial due diligence through to post-acquisition integration and optimisation-ensuring newly acquired businesses are successfully transitioned into the Group's financial, operational, and reporting framework. This role is accountable for the successful delivery of finance integration for individual acquisitions, ensuring timelines, quality, and outcomes are achieved. The role is focused not only on integration, but on delivering the investment case, including synergy realisation, improved financial visibility, strengthened controls, and enhanced cash performance, within a fast-paced, private equity-backed environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Acquisition & Integration
- Lead the development and delivery of structured finance integration and 100-day plans for all acquisitions
- Ensure timely and efficient migration of acquired entities onto Group systems, processes, and reporting frameworks
- Act as the finance lead in integration governance forums, driving decision-making and ensuring risks and dependencies are clearly understood
- Conduct post-acquisition site visits to assess finance operations, controls, and team capability
Value Creation & Synergy Delivery
- Support delivery of the acquisition investment case
- Partner with operational and commercial teams to identify opportunities to enhance profitability and efficiency
- Monitor performance of acquired businesses against deal model assumptions, proactively challenging underperformance
- Provide clear insight to leadership on realised vs unrealised synergies
Financial Control, Governance & Risk
- Establish robust financial controls and governance across newly acquired businesses, ensuring alignment with Group standards
- Review, document, and enhance existing finance processes and internal controls
- Identify financial, operational, and integration risks and implement mitigation plans
- Ensure full oversight and control of banking arrangements, including mandate transitions and cash visibility
Reporting, KPI Standardisation & Performance Insight
- Oversee the preparation and review of monthly management accounts for acquired entities
- Integrate acquired businesses into Group reporting, ensuring alignment with the Group chart of accounts and accounting policies
- Standardise KPIs and reporting metrics across acquisitions to enable consistent performance tracking
- Support delivery of board and investor-level reporting, including YTD performance vs acquisition case
Systems & Data Integration
- Lead the migration of financial data into Group systems, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and integrity
- Drive standardisation of finance systems and reporting tools across the Group
- Identify and mitigate risks associated with system transitions and data migration
Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders including Finance Leadership, the Acquisitions Team, and central functions
- Establish credibility with acquired business leadership and finance teams to ensure a smooth and collaborative transition
- Act as a key liaison between acquired entities and Group Finance throughout the integration lifecycle
Team Leadership & Capability Building
- Mentor and develop junior finance team members, building capability in acquisition accounting and integration processes
- Provide financial guidance and support to the wider acquisitions team
A salary of £60,000-£65,000 is on offer plus benefits.
