<h3 data-path-to-node="3"><strong data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="3">The Company</strong></h3><p data-path-to-node="4">My client is a private equity-owned Global Consulting Group currently navigating a high-growth phase. As they prepare for a strategic private equity exit in 2026, they are seeking a sharp, commercially-minded Financial Controller to join their leadership team. The organisation prides itself on a collaborative, fast-paced environment where innovation is encouraged, and every team member has a direct impact on the Group's collective success.</p><h3 data-path-to-node="5">The Role</h3><p data-path-to-node="6">Reporting directly into the Group Finance Director, the Financial Controller will be a pivotal figure in driving financial excellence and operational improvement across the Group. This is a high-visibility role where you will work hand-in-hand with Managing Directors and senior leaders to influence profitability and accelerate the Group's strategic vision.</p><p data-path-to-node="6"> </p><p data-path-to-node="7"><strong data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="7">Key Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul data-path-to-node="8"><li><p data-path-to-node="8,0,0">Financial Reporting & Control: Own the end-to-end monthly and quarterly reporting cycles (P&L, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet) and lead seamless external audits.</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="8,1,0">Strategic Business Partnering: Uncover the "story behind the numbers" through deep-dive profitability analysis to guide executive decision-making.</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="8,2,0">Exit Readiness: Support the Group FD on board-level reporting, financial modeling, and ensuring the Group is prepared for a milestone 2026 exit.</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="8,3,0">Process Transformation: Lead the charge in strengthening controls and pioneering automation to future-proof the finance function.</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="8,3,0">Team Leadership: Directly manage and empower a junior finance team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and agility.</p></li></ul><h3 data-path-to-node="9"><strong data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="9">Your Profile</strong></h3><p data-path-to-node="10">The client is looking for a "savvy" and proactive candidate who thrives in a growth-driven, private equity setting. You should be comfortable with change and possess the gravitas to challenge and support senior stakeholders.</p><ul data-path-to-node="11"><li><p data-path-to-node="11,0,0">Qualifications: Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA).</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="11,1,0">Experience: Minimum of 2 years of people management experience is essential.</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="11,2,0">Background: A proven track record in audit or professional services; experience within a PE-backed environment or exit-readiness projects is highly desirable.</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="11,3,0">Technical Skills: Deep knowledge of UK GAAP/IFRS and advanced Excel/financial modeling skills.</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="11,4,0">Attributes: Proactive, collaborative, and hands-on, with a flair for translating complex data into actionable strategy.</p></li></ul><h3 data-path-to-node="12"><strong data-index-in-node="0" data-path-to-node="12">Salary and Benefits</strong></h3><p data-path-to-node="13">The Group offers a highly competitive package designed to reward high performance and support a healthy work-life balance:</p><ul data-path-to-node="14"><li><p data-path-to-node="14,0,0">Base Salary: Up to £85,000 per annum.</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="14,1,0">Bonus: 15% discretionary performance-related bonus (based on individual and company performance).</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="14,2,0">Holiday: 26 days annual leave (rising to 27 after two years) + bank holidays + an additional paid day off for your birthday.</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="14,3,0">Working Model: Hybrid and flexible working environment (2 days per week in the Hammersmith office).</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="14,4,0">Financial Security: Life assurance (4x salary), income protection, and a matched company pension (up to 4-5%).</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="14,5,0">Health & Wellbeing: Healthcare cash plan, Employee Assistance Programme, and a flexible benefits allowance (usable for private medical, dental, gym memberships, or extra holiday).</p></li><li><p data-path-to-node="14,6,0">Additional Perks: Electric vehicle scheme (post-probation), payment of professional membership fees, and various lifestyle discounts.</p></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/SmVybWFpbmUuTHluY2guNTg3MTAuMTA5MjNAcmhpLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ.gif">
<p><strong>Site Reliability Engineer Lead (SRE) - AWS | Observability | Incident Management</strong></p><p>Robert Half International (an S&P 500 global staffing provider) is supporting a global consulting firm in sourcing an interim <strong>SRE Lead</strong> for a major financial services engagement. This role will focus on improving platform reliability, stabilising production environments, and embedding best-in-class SRE practices across a complex, high-availability estate.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Assignment Details</strong></p><ul><li><strong>£500-£550 p/day</strong> via PAYE <strong>PLUS additional 12.07% daily holiday pay on top.</strong> (employer's NI & tax deducted at source - unlike umbrella companies and no umbrella company admin fees)</li><li><strong>Initial 6 month contract</strong></li><li><strong>Hybrid </strong>working - <strong>2-3 days per week in the City of London</strong></li><li><strong>Start date</strong>: c.2-4 week turnaround with anticipated start date with onboarding paperwork of w/c 01/05</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Lead and improve <strong>incident management processes</strong> (detection, triage, escalation, resolution)</li><li>Drive <strong>major incident response (P1/P0)</strong> and post-incident reviews (blameless postmortems)</li><li>Define and implement <strong>SRE principles</strong> including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and error budgets</li><li>Build and enhance <strong>observability frameworks</strong> across metrics, logs and tracing</li><li>Drive <strong>automation and reduction of manual toil</strong> across operational processes</li><li>Implement <strong>runbooks, playbooks and operational readiness standards</strong></li><li>Work closely with engineering, platform and security teams to embed reliability into delivery</li><li>Support the design of <strong>resilient, highly available systems</strong> (failover, DR, multi-region)</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Key Skills & Experience</strong></p><ul><li>Proven experience in <strong>SRE, DevOps or Platform Engineering roles</strong> within complex environments</li><li>Strong hands-on experience with <strong>incident management and production support at scale</strong></li><li>Deep experience with <strong>observability tooling</strong> (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry)</li><li>Solid experience with <strong>AWS cloud environments</strong> (EKS/ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.)</li><li>Experience with <strong>CI/CD pipelines, automation and Infrastructure as Code</strong> (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)</li><li>Strong understanding of <strong>system reliability, performance and resilience engineering principles</strong></li><li>Experience working in <strong>regulated or high-availability environments</strong> (financial services preferred)</li></ul><p><strong>Nice to Have</strong></p><ul><li>Experience with <strong>chaos engineering or resilience testing</strong></li><li>Exposure to <strong>AIOps or intelligent automation frameworks</strong></li><li>Experience transitioning or improving <strong>outsourced / offshore support models</strong></li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>All candidates will be required to complete standard screening checks including Right to Work, financial background checks and last 5 years referencing.</strong></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/Tmljb2xhcy5HZW9yZ2lvdS40MjIzMi4xMDkyM0ByaGkuYXBsaXRyYWsuY29t.gif">
<p>Robert Half International (an S&P 500 global staffing provider) is supporting a global consulting firm in sourcing an interim <strong>Snowflake Data Engineer</strong>. This role will help design and build a new cloud data warehouse solution using <strong>Snowflake</strong>, <strong>dbt</strong>, and <strong>Azure DevOps</strong>, delivering scalable ELT pipelines and optimised data models to support business-wide analytics and reporting.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Assignment Details</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Initial 6-month contract </strong>(extensions expected)</li><li><strong>Hybrid </strong>- 2 days per week on-site in the City of London</li><li><strong>£400-450 p/day</strong> plus 12.07% holiday pay via PAYE with employer's NI & Tax deducted at source, unlike umbrella companies and no umbrella company admin fees)</li><li><strong>Start Date:</strong> c. 1-2 weeks turnaround with anticipated start on w/c 6th April</li></ul><p><strong>Key Skills & Experience</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Financial Services will be essential for this opportunity. Ideally Insurance.</strong></li><li>Proven experience building and managing <strong>Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouses</strong> (warehouses, roles, RBAC, performance tuning, cost optimisation).</li><li>Strong hands-on experience with <strong>dbt</strong> (modelling, incremental loads, macros, testing, documentation).</li><li>Solid understanding of <strong>Azure DevOps</strong> for CI/CD pipelines (YAML, environments, approvals, Git branching).</li><li>Excellent SQL engineering and data modelling (star/snowflake schemas, best practices).</li><li>Experience in <strong>data pipeline development</strong>, <strong>data quality</strong>, and <strong>automation</strong>.</li><li>Clear communicator with strong stakeholder engagement across technical and business teams.</li></ul><p><strong>Nice to have:</strong></p><ul><li>Exposure to <strong>Azure Data Factory</strong>, <strong>Databricks</strong>, or other orchestration tools.</li><li>Python scripting for ELT automation and testing.</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>All candidates must complete standard screening (Right to Work, DBS, credit/sanctions, employment verification).</strong></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/Tmljb2xhcy5HZW9yZ2lvdS4wNTM2Mi4xMDkyM0ByaGkuYXBsaXRyYWsuY29t.gif">
<p>Robert Half Finance & Accounting are partnering with a Technology Consultancy in London to recruit an immediate, temporary Finance/Business Analyst for 3 months.</p><p><strong>Role:</strong></p><p>Our client is looking for an immediate temporary, Finance/Business Analyst to assist them for 3 months. You will be responsible for following duties:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Analyse financial and operational data to support business decision-making.</li><li>Develop dashboards, reports, and analytical models to provide insights into performance.</li><li>Identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for operational or financial improvement.</li><li>Support the finance team with ad-hoc analysis and data requests.</li><li>Assist with the preparation and automation of regular financial and management reports.</li><li>Maintain and improve reporting templates and data sources.</li><li>Ensure data accuracy and consistency across financial reporting outputs. </li><li>Support month-end and year-end reporting processes.</li><li>Assist in maintaining robust financial controls and compliance procedures.</li><li>Support internal and external audit processes through data preparation and documentation.</li><li>Ensure financial records, processes, and systems meet regulatory and internal policy requirements.</li><li>Assist with documentation and improvement of finance procedures.</li><li>Support the management and optimisation of finance systems and reporting tools.</li><li>Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve data workflows.</li><li>Assist with implementation, upgrades, and maintenance of finance-related systems.</li><li>Act as a liaison between finance and IT where systems improvements are required.</li><li>Provide analytical support across all finance functions including accounting, reporting, and operations.</li><li>Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to gather data and improve reporting capabilities.</li><li>Support continuous improvement initiatives within the finance team.</li></ul><p><strong>Profile:</strong></p><p>The successful temporary Finance/Business Analyst will have 3+ Years experience.</p><p>You must be immediate or 1 weeks notice to be considered for this role.</p><p><strong>Client:</strong></p><p>Our client are a Technology Consultancy based in London. You will have the opportunity to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment. </p><p><strong>Salary & Benefits:</strong></p><p>This role is paying between £225-£250 Umbrella per day dependant on experience.</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/SGFycnkuU3RvcmV5LjM3ODY1LjEwOTIzQHJoaS5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20.gif">
<p><strong>DevOps + Snowflake Data Engineer (Associate / Contract)</strong></p><p>Robert Half are looking for an <strong>interim DevOps + Snowflake Data Engineer</strong> to join as an <strong>Associate</strong> and support a <strong>global consulting firm</strong> delivering a major <strong>enterprise data transformation programme for an insurance client</strong>. The engagement sits within a <strong>Divisional Data Team</strong> responsible for building and managing an <strong>enterprise-wide data platform</strong>, improving reporting capabilities and embedding modern <strong>data governance and engineering best practices</strong>. This role blends <strong>Snowflake platform administration, DevOps engineering and data platform optimisation</strong> to ensure the reliability, security and performance of a modern cloud data estate.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Assignment Details</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Rate:</strong> <strong>c. £450+12.07% per day via PAYE </strong>(with employer's NI & Tax deducted at source - unlike umbrella companies and no umbrella company admin fees)</li><li><strong>Location:</strong> London - Hybrid (2 days per week onsite)</li><li><strong>Contract Length:</strong> c. 6 months rolling</li><li><strong>Start Date:</strong> c. 2-3 weeks subject to interview and onboarding</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Administer and manage the <strong>Snowflake data platform</strong> across development, test and production environments</li><li>Implement <strong>security controls</strong> including RBAC, SSO/MFA authentication, data encryption and masking</li><li>Build and maintain <strong>CI/CD pipelines</strong> for Snowflake deployments using <strong>Azure DevOps or GitHub</strong></li><li>Automate operational and deployment processes across the data platform</li><li>Monitor platform health and performance and troubleshoot <strong>pipeline failures or operational incidents</strong></li><li>Manage <strong>Snowflake warehouses, databases, schemas and access roles</strong></li><li>Optimise <strong>query performance, warehouse sizing and Snowflake credit consumption</strong></li><li>Support <strong>database change management, secrets management and role hierarchy structures</strong></li><li>Work closely with <strong>data engineering and networking teams</strong> to resolve pipeline or infrastructure issues</li><li>Maintain artefactory certificates and resolve <strong>Snyk / SonarQube security scanner issues</strong></li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Key Experience</strong></p><ul><li>Strong hands-on experience administering <strong>Snowflake data warehouse platforms</strong></li><li>Experience implementing <strong>DevOps practices within data engineering or cloud environments</strong></li><li>Experience building <strong>CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or similar tooling</strong></li><li>Strong <strong>SQL and data warehouse engineering experience</strong></li><li>Experience using <strong>DBT or modern data transformation frameworks</strong></li><li>Experience implementing <strong>RBAC, data security controls and governance policies</strong></li><li>Experience monitoring <strong>data platform performance and managing operational incidents</strong></li><li>Understanding of <strong>Azure cloud environments and modern data platforms</strong></li><li>Exposure to <strong>Terraform, infrastructure as code or platform automation</strong> is beneficial</li><li>Experience within <strong>insurance or financial services environments</strong> is highly desirable</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/Tmljb2xhcy5HZW9yZ2lvdS4yOTA0My4xMDkyM0ByaGkuYXBsaXRyYWsuY29t.gif">
<p>Robert Half are proud to be working in an exclusive retained agreement with <strong>Signify Research</strong> to recruit a <strong>Senior Finance Business Partner / Finance Manager,</strong> based in <strong>Cranfield</strong> on a <strong>hybrid</strong> basis.</p><p>You will be proactive, detailed orientated and ambitious looking to support driving the professionalism and value creation of our ambitious and scaling business, happy to pull up your sleeves and get stuck in with the aptitude to develop and grow as we do. This role is seen as the future Head of Finance with the opportunity to build a team around you as the business expands. <strong> </strong>The foundations of the finance function are now in place, and the next step is to professionalise, streamline and gradually build capability as the company grows.</p><p><strong>Senior Finance Business Partner/Finance Manager</strong></p><p>Signify Research is dedicated to offering the highest quality, most in-depth and robust market analysis, insight, and consultancy services for the healthcare technology industry.</p><p><strong>Role Purpose</strong></p><p>You will support the CFO by ensuring accurate reporting, compliance, and assisting with financial processes, as well as acting as a key link between finance and the research, sales and marketing teams supporting the provision of insights and analysis to support decision making. This role is designed for a proactive individual who will aid ensuring that financial performance is aligned with business objectives and demonstrates curiosity, trustworthiness, and commitment to quality while fostering impartiality, partnership and expertise.</p><p>Right hand to the CFO/COO running the day-to-day finance activities whilst also lending support to strategic projects and working across the business to deliver efficiencies. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Duties & Responsibilities</strong></p><p><strong>Financial Operations</strong></p><ul><li>Own the relationship with outsourced finance provider who manage the day-to-day bookkeeping, payroll, and VAT returns.</li><li>Oversight of Accounts Payable</li><li>Ownership of Accounts Receivable including invoicing and credit control.</li><li>Maintain accurate financial controls and reconciliations.</li><li>Manage the month end close process and discipline (e.g., timelines, checklists, issues/actions log)</li><li>Ensure accurate Revenue recognition.</li></ul><p><strong>Reporting and Forecasting</strong></p><ul><li>Prepare the MI and KPI pack for CFO review.</li><li>Assist in preparing Board packs.</li><li>Support budgeting and forecasting processes, maintaining a rolling 12-month forecast (with CFO oversight).</li><li>Monitor cash flow and working capital, highlight variances promptly.</li><li>Ensure compliance with statutory requirements and internal controls.</li></ul><p><strong>Business Partnering (developing capability)</strong></p><ul><li>Collaborate with internal teams and external providers to resolve queries efficiently.</li><li>Maintain confidentiality and integrity in all financial matters.</li><li>Finance Business partner to all team leads helping to understand the financial impacts of business decisions and function as the early warning flag to emerging financial risks.</li><li>Provide analysis on profitability, cost control, and performance metrics.</li><li>Help non-finance stakeholders understand financial performance.</li></ul><p><strong>Process improvement and systems</strong></p><ul><li>Identify opportunities for process improvement/automation and contribute ideas proactively. Especially within sphere of influence.</li><li>Improve reporting efficiency and data quality.</li><li>Support future implementation of improved reporting tools (e.g., Power BI or similar)</li><li>Contribute to building a scalable finance function as the company grows.</li><li>Ensure compliance with internal controls.</li></ul><p><strong>Skills & Experience</strong></p><ul><li>Ideally a Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA).</li><li>3-5 years' experience, ideally in an SME or scaling environment.</li><li>Strong grounding in management accounts and financial controls.</li><li>Experience with subscription revenue models beneficial.</li><li>Comfortable in Xero and strong Excel capability (basic modelling and analysis), proficient with other Microsoft applications</li><li>MI and data visualization tools and a working use of Power BI a plus.</li></ul><p><strong>Package</strong></p><ul><li>£50,000 - £55,000 basic </li><li>Work in a PE backed, owner managed business on its growth journey to second transaction over the next 3-5 years</li><li>Family-friendly work-life balance with ability to work from home and flexible hours - Hybrid: 3 days in office, 2 from home</li><li>Health cash plan that includes 24/7 virtual GP consultation service, health advice and counselling services, gym discounts and second opinion medical services</li><li>Company pension 4%, (increases to 7.5% after 3 years), 15% Bonus, dependent on company and personal performance</li><li>Paid employer-supported volunteer time off</li><li>27 days per annum holiday allowance (exclusive of bank holidays), flexible bank holiday usage, plus ability to "buy" addition holiday allowance.</li><li>Company life insurance worth 3X salary</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/YmhhdmluLmtvdGVjaGEuMjkyODkuMTA5MjNAcmhpLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ.gif">
