<p></p><h1>Head of Finance</h1><p><strong>Location:</strong> West Midlands | Hybrid Working</p><p>Robert Half are recruiting a <strong>Head of Finance</strong> on behalf of a successful UK organisation operating within a complex, project-led environment. This is a high-impact leadership position, offering full ownership of the finance function and a seat at the table with the senior leadership team.</p><p>This is far more than a traditional financial control role. You'll be expected to challenge decisions, drive profitability, improve performance, and provide the commercial insight needed to support continued growth.</p><h3>The Role</h3><p>As Head of Finance, you will take responsibility for the overall financial leadership of the business, ensuring robust financial management whilst acting as a trusted adviser to operational and commercial teams.</p><p>You'll be at the heart of strategic decision-making, providing insight that drives business performance, improves margins, strengthens controls, and supports long-term growth ambitions.</p><p>Responsibilities include:</p><ul><li>Leading and developing a high-performing finance team.</li><li>Owning all financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting and planning activities.</li><li>Delivering meaningful commercial insight to support business performance.</li><li>Driving financial discipline and accountability across the organisation.</li><li>Managing cash flow, working capital and liquidity performance.</li><li>Partnering with operational leaders to improve project and contract profitability.</li><li>Ensuring appropriate governance, risk management and regulatory compliance.</li><li>Leading audit processes and maintaining key external relationships.</li><li>Identifying opportunities to streamline processes, improve systems and enhance reporting capability.</li><li>Supporting strategic initiatives, investment decisions and future growth plans.</li></ul><h3>About You</h3><p>We're seeking an ambitious and influential finance professional who enjoys operating in a fast-paced environment and isn't afraid to challenge the status quo.</p><p>You will ideally possess:</p><ul><li>ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification.</li><li>A proven track record in a senior finance leadership role.</li><li>Strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.</li><li>Experience within engineering, contracting, manufacturing, construction, infrastructure, utilities or other project-based sectors.</li><li>Excellent financial planning, analysis and cash management capabilities.</li><li>A hands-on leadership style with the ability to balance strategic thinking and operational delivery.</li><li>Experience leading teams through change, growth or transformation.</li><li>The confidence to operate as a key member of the senior leadership team.</li></ul><p> </p><h2> </h2><br><p> </p><p>Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.</p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/amFjay5jb253YXkuMjQ2ODUuMTA5MjNAcmhpLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ.gif">
<p data-pm-slice="1 3 []">We are seeking an experienced IT Manager to lead a small technical team and oversee IT infrastructure, systems and support services across a multi-site organisation. This is a permanent role paying up to £63,500 plus company car, with hybrid working after successful completion of probation.</p><p>This is a hands-on leadership role, combining day-to-day operational responsibility with project delivery, team development and continuous improvement. You will work closely with business systems colleagues to ensure technology supports business performance, security and efficiency.</p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul data-spread="false"><li><p>Lead, mentor and develop the internal IT team, promoting accountability and continuous improvement.</p></li><li><p>Oversee IT support, service desk operations and service level agreements.</p></li><li><p>Manage IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, applications, devices and communications.</p></li><li><p>Plan and deliver IT projects, managing resources, budgets, suppliers and timescales.</p></li><li><p>Support IT strategy, technology improvements and business transformation initiatives.</p></li><li><p>Maintain cyber security, data protection, system updates and IT governance.</p></li><li><p>Develop and test business continuity and disaster recovery arrangements.</p></li><li><p>Provide hands-on technical support and troubleshooting when required</p></li></ul><p><strong>About You</strong></p><ul data-spread="false"><li><p>Strong knowledge of Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server, Microsoft 365, Azure/Entra ID, Active Directory, SharePoint Online and SQL Server.</p></li><li><p>Good understanding of networking, storage, virtualisation and remote desktop technologies.</p></li><li><p>Knowledge of cyber security, GDPR and IT governance.</p></li><li><p>Proven IT project management and service delivery experience.</p></li><li><p>Strong leadership, communication, organisational and problem-solving skills.</p></li><li><p>A proactive, hands-on approach with a focus on ownership and continuous improvement.</p></li></ul><p><strong>On Offer</strong></p><ul><li>Salary up to £63,500</li><li>Company car</li><li>Hybrid working - 3 days a week in Melksham</li><li>Competitive benefits</li></ul><p>Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.</p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/Um94eS5MYXcuMzU2MTEuMTA5MjNAcmhpLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ.gif">
<p>Exciting opportunity to join a well established and growing business based in Wantage as Infrastructure Team Leader, offering excellent career progression and development and competitive salary/package.</p><p><strong>The Role</strong></p><p>As Infrastructure Team Leader, you'll be responsible for:</p><ul><li>leading a small team of infrastructure specialists, responsible for monitoring, supporting and maintaining a reliable and high-performing server, storage and data-centre infrastructure </li><li>coordinating activities with internal and 3rd party resources across multiple international sites </li><li>lead continuous improvement of backups, disaster recovery and monitoring processes</li><li>identify opportunities to implement new technologies in line with IT strategy, driving automation and continuous improvement</li><li>maintaining standards and adhering to compliance processes and procedures, in line with various IT and security frameworks </li><li>lead on exciting infrastructure change projects and initiatives</li></ul><p><strong>About you</strong></p><p>Applicants for the Infrastructure Team Leader role will:</p><ul><li>have sound experience gained as an infrastructure engineer, systems administrator, or similar, with strong knowledge across storage, server and data-centres, in particular Microsoft based infrastructure</li><li>be experienced with hyper-visor technologies (e.g. VMWare, Hyper-V, Nutanix, Proxmox)</li><li>have knowledge or experience of automation / orchestration (e.g. Ansible, Terraform) and container platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) would be beneficial </li><li>be comfortable working in a regulated environment and experience driving compliance with frameworks / standards</li><li>be comfortable working in an office based environment and with occasional international travel</li></ul><p><strong>On offer</strong></p><p>Competitive salary and benefits package, including generous pension, bonus, private medical and flexible working hours</p><p>Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.</p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/cGV0ZXIuZWx3YXJkLjczODg5LjEwOTIzQHJoaS5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20.gif">
<p>Robert Half is partnering with a growing engineering company who are looking to appoint an experienced <strong>Finance Manager</strong> to lead its finance function and support the senior leadership team with commercial and operational decision-making.</p><p>The successful candidate will play a key role in driving financial performance while managing day-to-day finance operations and a small accounts team.</p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Production of monthly management accounts, budgets, forecasts and cashflow reporting</li><li>Business partnering with senior leadership, providing financial and commercial insight</li><li>Managing payroll, VAT and statutory reporting requirements</li><li>Overseeing sales ledger, purchase ledger, credit control and supplier payments</li><li>Ensuring robust financial controls and identifying opportunities for process improvement</li><li>Managing and developing a small finance team</li><li>Supporting year-end processes and liaising with external advisors</li></ul><p><strong>About You</strong></p><ul><li>ACCA, ACA, CIMA qualified or qualified by experience</li><li>Previous experience in a Finance Manager or senior finance position</li><li>Experience in construction, engineering, manufacturing or contracting environments</li><li>Commercially minded with the ability to influence and challenge stakeholders</li><li>Comfortable operating in a hands-on SME environment</li><li>Able to manage multiple priorities and drive improvements across the finance function</li></ul><p> </p><p>Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.</p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/Q2FybGllLldpbGxpYW1zLjUzNDI3LjEwOTIzQHJoaS5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20.gif">
<p>Robert Half has partnered with an established engineering firm to recruit for a newly created role of Principal Data Scientist and Machine Learning Researcher. This is a permanent role, based in Gloucester or Manchester, with competitive salary and benefits.</p><p>As you will be working within a highly secure technology environment, the successful candidate will need to be able to obtain eDV and SC clearance. </p><p><strong>The Role</strong></p><ul dir="ltr"><li>Supporting the Head of Data Science & Machine Learning to shape group strategy and engage stakeholders</li><li>Generating ideas for novel research that create competitive advantage across the customer community</li><li>Working autonomously to develop complex, novel data science solutions</li><li>Helping triage and respond to new opportunities, aligned to group and wider business strategy</li><li>Designing and delivering data-centric solutions in collaboration with colleagues across disciplines</li><li>Leading the technical delivery of research and applied AI/ML work on both customer and internal projects</li><li>Providing technical leadership across multiple projects</li><li>Managing and developing more junior members of the SRG team</li><li>Delivering AI, ML and data science solutions to a broad range of defence problems</li></ul><p><strong>About You</strong></p><ul><li>Several years' experience delivering novel ML solutions to customers and internal stakeholders</li><li>Proven experience as a Senior/Principal Data Scientist with ability to guide and coach the team</li><li>Excellent Python coding practice, including ML libraries such as HuggingFace, TensorFlow and PyTorch</li><li>Experience building robust ML pipelines with MLOps tools for model training, monitoring and deployment</li><li>Experience with version control and environment management (e.g. venvs, Docker)</li><li>Expert knowledge of AI/ML algorithms across different data types and tasks, including Generative AI, NLP and computer vision, sufficient to propose research beyond the existing literature</li><li>Hands-on experience training and developing AI models, including Large Language Models</li></ul><p>This is a permanent opportunity with a competitive salary package, additional clearance-related allowance and the chance to work on technically challenging, security-focused programmes. Due to the nature of the work, suitability and eligibility requirements will apply.</p><p>If you have the relevant background and would be open to a confidential conversation, please get in touch.</p><p> </p><p>Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: roberthalf.com/gb/en/privacy-notice.</p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/Um94eS5MYXcuNzM5MTMuMTA5MjNAcmhpLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ.gif">