Job Description

Head of Finance – VetSpeed

Vetspeed is a £25m fast-growing business providing B2B and B2C services in the UK within the pet cremation sector as well as hazardous waste management. With a strong growth agenda ahead, and many exciting opportunities in the sector, we’re looking for a commercially minded Head of Finance to join the team.

As Head of Finance, you will play a pivotal role in driving performance, supporting strategic decision-making, and ensuring financial integrity across the business. Reporting directly to the CFO, this role combines hands-on financial management with commercial insight, data analytics, and business performance analysis.

You’ll work closely with operational and commercial teams to translate data into actionable insights, support monthly close processes, and help shape the company’s growth strategy through robust financial planning and analysis.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

• Partner with business leaders across commercial, operations, and marketing to drive financial performance and accountability.
• Lead financial analysis and reporting, providing insight into key drivers of revenue, margin, and profitability.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and analytics to monitor business performance, trends, and KPIs
• Manage the month-end close process with our off shored financial service team (AP, AR, R2R), ensuring timely and accurate reporting driving continuous improvements.
• Prepare and present monthly performance reviews and variance analysis to senior management.
• Own the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning activities.
• Manage the integration accounts of a newly acquired business unit.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance financial visibility and efficiency.
• Drive and Support strategic projects including investments from appraisal, execution to ROI analytics, corporate tenders, pricing analysis, product profitability and support ambitious growth plans
• Responsible for the health of the business units balance sheet in close collaboration with the regional financial controller supporting with explanations, investigations and clear down activities.
• Lead the outsourcing of Payroll
• Line management of a team of 2-3
• As the financial accounting is off shored it is vital to manage and engage with the offshored team closely to ensure all financial processes are adhere to and results and BS are correct and well controlled.

About You

You are a proactive, analytical finance professional who enjoys getting under the skin of a business and helping to drive performance. You’ll be comfortable managing detail while also stepping back to provide strategic insight. You roll up your sleeves and get things started and finished, working well stand alone as well as across different teams. As part of driving performance, you are responsible for identifying opportunities and risks as well as recommending actions plans and serving as a catalyst to challenge the business and drive forward critical initiatives to deliver the strategy.

Experience/Qualifications:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Proven experience in a Finance Business Partner or Commercial Finance role as well as strong management accounting skills.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills, with the ability to tell the story behind the numbers and develop new analytics models and tools that make an impact.
• Experience across analytics, FP&A, management accounting and finance business partnering preferred
• Excellent Excel and data visualisation skills
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and challenge stakeholders.
• Organised, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple priorities.
• Experience working in Oracle would be a plus

Following receipt of your application, you will be contacted by one of our experienced hire recruitment team.

As a BAME and LGBTQ+ inclusive employer, we are keen to hear from candidates from all minority and diverse groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are keen to hear from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions and would be happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.

What We Offer:

At IVC Evidensia we recognise that our people are fundamental to the success of our business. Investing in our people, premises and processes is at the heart of what we do. In addition to a competitive base salary, you will benefit from

• Work-life balance

*26 days annual leave

• Cycle to Work scheme
• Initiatives focused on employee wellbeing
• Pension
• Discretionary Bonus
• Discounted staff pet care
• Dog Friendly office
• Free Parking available at Head Office

At IVC Evidensia we are a committed to Diversity, Equality, Inclusion and Belonging, we are keen to hear from candidates from all minority and diverse groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are keen to hear from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions and would be happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.