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A private equity backed media business is seeking a Head of Finance to join their team.The successful candidate will partner the CEO to set the financial direction of the business: build a robust reporting and forecasting engine, help improve margins through pricing and delivery insight, and strengthen financial control and cash management. You will lead a small finance team and make Paprika-driven data genuinely decision-useful (revenue/margin by client, sector, product and channel).Key responsibilities:Commercial finance & decision support - Build dashboards and monthly reporting showing revenue and profitability by client / sector / product / service line / lead source - Analyse historic jobs and current pipeline to identify margin drivers, scope creep patterns, and delivery inefficiencies - Establish pricing discipline: analyse existing rate cards, discount guardrails, approval process, and post-job margin reviews - Create additional incentive mechanisms (e.g. margin gain sharing) aligned to gross margin and delivery - Analyse marketing spends what works/doesn’t and help advise on direction as interim Board memberPlanning, forecasting and cash - Run annual budget + 12-month rolling forecast; produce scenario models for growth plans - Implement cash and working capital management (billing cadence, cashflow etc) - Improve revenue recognition (advise on ops for retainers vs projects etc)Operations / utilisation - Implement timesheet compliance and utilisation reporting (definitions, targets, weekly visibility) across the business - Capacity planning: match resourcing to pipeline, identify hire vs freelancer mix to protect delivery margin