Job Description
Position: Finance Director
Contract: Full time
Company: Matcher Technologies Ltd www.imtmatcher.com
Location: Hybrid – typically 2 days in the office, 3 days from home. Global travel as required
Salary: Competitive package based on experience
Overview:
Matcher Technologies develops, implements, and supports IT-based quality management systems for fertility centres, donor banks and animal breeding centres.
Our main product, Matcher, is a quality management system specifically created for the fertility sector. Matcher helps prevent errors through the misidentification of patients, donors, their gametes and embryos. Equally important, Matcher helps customers provide traceability, it ensures regulatory compliance, and analyses operations to increase control and to optimise outcomes.
The Matcher system comprises software and networked IT hardware. It is used primarily within the embryology and andrology laboratories but is also used throughout other parts of the fertility centre including cryo stores, operating rooms, and product storage areas. Matcher delivers major benefits to all users including biologists, laboratory directors, quality managers, doctors, nurses and administration staff.
We are seeking a confident, professional candidate, with a commercial background, ideally in healthcare or the IVF Industry. This individual will join our team of 20+ staff based in the UK and abroad. The successful candidate will work closely day to day, with our core teams of finance, service & support, sales & marketing, and development. They will engage regularly with The Board.
The main aims of this role are to:
1) continually look ahead and question what the company wants to achieve and how, to make and refine the business case and tie it in with our strategy and vision,
2) regularly analyse our priority projects and their expected return,
3) review and continually improve our processes.
Underpinning the three areas above is ensuring that everything we do results in growth for the company, both financial and non-financial, whilst ensuring our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and managing our risks.
Main areas of responsibility and accountability:
- Building strong relationships cross-functionally with all respective counterparts, including service & support, sales & marketing, and development to provide clear communications across the entire company.
- Owning the financial strategy, budget planning and financing strategy across all channels, with full P&L, balance sheet & working capital oversight.
- Ownership of the annual budget production, ongoing forecasts, and long-term strategic planning.
- Owning the vision and strategy for the finance team.
- Ensuring achievement of financial business targets (on an annual and quarterly basis) set by the board.
- Board pack production and regulatory reporting.
- Providing insightful and constant analysis of revenue and cost drivers of the business, and KPIs to measure performance.
- Developing management reporting to provide extensive commercial information with analysis to support effective performance review and decision making.
- Providing financial support for new client sales, ensuring contracts are robust and commercially optimised.
- Carrying out all necessary actions to ensure that the company meets its financial and legal obligations.
- Leading a tax strategy that plans all aspects of VAT and corporation tax efficiently.
- Ownership and analysis of various cross-functional projects.
- Ownership of the risk register including the governance processes to control and mitigate the risks identified.
- Acting as primary contact with the bank, accountants, lawyers and insurers. Including optimising value for money.
- Reviewing existing processes and systems and identifying areas for continual improvement.
- Consistently challenging the status quo, being brave and creative with opportunities to improve costs and make appropriate investments.
- Establishing processes and measuring results to react quickly to opportunities and allow for continuous improvement.
Essential experience:
- Prior experience in commercial finance roles
- Significant financial knowledge and experience – qualified accountant with significant post qualification experience, ACA, ACCA or CIMA
- Strong business leadership, influencing and communication skills are essential for this role, as is strong emotional intelligence combined with significant change management experience.
- Good knowledge of financial modelling and cash flow planning.
- Excellent people management skills with the ability to successfully motivate and challenge a team of talented people at all levels of the company.
- Highly analytical but creatively minded; able to make data-driven decisions.
- Possess a strong work ethic with a drive to succeed.
- Ability to process large volumes of information whilst understanding and prioritising competing business needs.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovation is critical.
- Knowledge of managing data analytics and key performance metrics.
- Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Desirable experience:
- Proficiency in additional languages
- Prior experience in the healthcare or IVF industry
Candidates will be required to demonstrate examples of their application of these skills in previous roles. Development within the business will be available and is strongly encouraged. Therefore, an eagerness to progress and a positive, proactive attitude are also prerequisites.
Benefits include a competitive salary, pension contributions, and discretionary annual bonus scheme.
To apply:
Please send a CV and covering letter explaining why you believe you would be suitable for the role to careers@imtmatcher.com
