Fractional Finance Director

Fractional Finance Director

Location: Bradford BD11 1BY (In person)

Pay: £900 - £1,500 per day

Job Type: Temporary, Part-time

Assignment Duration: Initial 12-week assignment, normally one day per week

Role Overview

Hands-on Fractional Finance Director needed to diagnose the finance position, install cash and control disciplines, create management reporting and lead recruitment/onboarding of a permanent Financial Controller. You must be willing to work on site in Drighlington during the diagnostic and key interviews.

Required Deliverables

• Ten-day diagnostic of accounts, cash, tax, stock, payroll, systems, access and people, with ranked red-flag register.
• Daily cash visibility, weekly 13-week cash forecast and controlled supplier-payment process.
• Chart of accounts/reporting dimensions, month-end checklist, compliance calendar and approval matrix.
• First management pack covering P&L, balance sheet, cash, stock, product/channel margin, advertising, delivery and imports.
• Shopify-to-payment-provider-to-bank reconciliation design and treatment of refunds, fees, chargebacks and customer deposits.
• Manufacturing cost model and import landed-cost methodology, with clear data ownership.
• End-to-end Financial Controller recruitment: job design, sourcing brief, screening, technical case, interviews, recommendation and onboarding.
• Documented handover, six-month backlog and recommendation on whether monthly advisory support remains useful.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Strong SME manufacturing, stock and product-costing experience
• Professionally qualified
• Hands-on enough to inspect transactions, reconciliations and factory data
• Independent and willing to challenge founders with evidence
• Able to explain finance in clear commercial language
• Comfortable creating practical spreadsheets and controls before recommending major systems
• Low ego, documented handover and no attempt to make Sonno dependent on indefinite support