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Chief Financial Officer
Blenheim and Pye Homes
Blenheim and Pye Homes are looking for a CFO to join their senior management team. This is a newly created unique opportunity and the role will be responsible for strategic financial planning and execution across the entire Blenheim Palace Estate and Pye Homes. The successful candidate will be a commercial and pragmatic leader with a proven track record of strategic planning, building effective and motivated finance teams, investment appraisal and improving the financial investment environment. This position "sits above the business" rather than within the businesses. It is focussed on ensuring that the Estate executes on its agreed strategies/plan, challenges strategies to see if they are producing their intended results and drives relentless long-term growth from all capital invested.
They will lead the Finance and IT functions, drive the profitable growth of the Estate and evaluate all new investment and business opportunities. It is a hands-on role, but positioned at the pinnacle of the business, interpreting data from around the organisation, helping to transform finance from a measurer and controller to a pro-active business partner.
The role:
Strategic and operational leadership
* Ensuring that the Estate executes on its agreed strategies/plan, challenging strategies to see if they are producing their intended results and driving relentless long-term growth from all capital invested.
* Lead inquisitor of whether or not business strategies, financial strategies, initiatives and plans are working and delivering sustainable value.
* Analysing and reporting on the financial trends and information produced especially by the Heads of Finance and their teams.
* Continually measuring and reporting on the true return on assets and investments, reviewing asset allocation and capital allocation and in particular benchmark against both agreed targets and appropriate external comparators.
* Supporting the CEO in ensuring that resources are allocated to the most important opportunities.
* Supporting the multiyear strategic Business Plans and managing the short and long run cycle of business planning/budgets.
Risk Management
* A steward to regulate and manage risk while pursuing sensible risk-adjusted returns.
* Overall responsibility for the financial wellbeing of the Estate businesses including treasury and financial strategy.
* Delivering the appropriate compliance / governance / protocols and procedures.
Management and Development
* Development, mentoring and leadership of teams in Finance and IT, raising the levels of competence across the organisation and transforming Finance from a measurer and controller into a pro-active business partner.
* Lead Project Manager on significant organisational projects
* Maintaining a detailed knowledge of the structure and make sure all the senior team have a clear understanding of strategy.
Stakeholder Management
* Supporting the CEO in delivering papers to Trustees, capturing strategic level and summary metrics and crystallising key decisions and reviews.
* Providing the Trustees and Senior Management with rolling forecasts, KPI and trend analysis - both financial and non-financial.
* All performance reporting to the business and Trustees and Family.
* Production of an annual review of the business, including resource levels needed to optimally run the business.
* Maintaining excellent working relationships with the family, their trustees and advisors and all senior management.
Taxation and professional
* Tax planning and strategic tax position in all jurisdictions.
* Ensuring that all finance services and reporting, statutory and to Trustees, are delivered efficiently, and at pace, to a high standard.
* Liaison with Advisor Group auditors, tax advisors, legal advisors. Implementation of appropriate capital structures.
Who we are looking for:
* A confident and trusted advisor to senior managers with highly developed influencing skills, able to drive growth business growth and challenge effectively at all levels of management.
* A relationship builder, capable of forming strong partnerships with the divisional heads, acting as a mentor and guide.
* A true business partner, an innovator not simply a controller.
* Previous experience of, or able to demonstrate an engaged passion for, purpose-led businesses. Excited by the opportunity to creatively engage in demonstrating that landed estates are not historic anachronisms but are uniquely powerful forces for good - being the lifeblood of the local economy, enhancing the lives of local people and sharing and protecting this extraordinary place. Demonstrating a flair for creating/challenging business models which derive from or deliver this.
* It will be an advantage for candidates to have experience of either a large visitor attraction or a significant property business; previous experience of a landed estate is not required.
* Hands-on, a starter/finisher and someone who will provide a constructively critical eye on the businesses. They will have a hunger to push further and be deeply inquisitive. They will understand that the Finance Team are not short of people telling them what to do….
Please apply in confidence with a CV and cover letter stating your salary expectations.
The successful applicant will be based at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock and Pye Homes Kidlington, with some working from home.
By applying for this role, your details will be sent to Ortolan People, who are engaged to provide recruitment support in processing applications. We will endeavour to respond to all applicants within three working days. Occasionally for roles with a very high volume of applicants, this may not be possible.