About this role
Job summary For over 40 years, Agincare has remained proudly family-owned, growing from a local care provider into a diverse national organisation. Today, we operate from around 200 locations across the UK, delivering a wide range of care and support services and helping thousands of people live well every day. Built on strong foundations and a respected reputation, we're now focused on the next chapter of our growth. Continued investment in our people, systems and infrastructure is creating a more connected, efficient and scalable organisation, and we're looking for an exceptional Finance Director to help optimise performance into the future. Reporting to the Group CFO, you'll lead a finance function of around 40 colleagues, overseeing financial operations across more than 40 legal entities within a complex and evolving organisation due to hit £243m turnover this year, and employing close to 6,000 team members. This is far more than a technical finance role. We're looking for an accomplished leader who can develop people, simplify complexity, strengthen controls and help shape a finance function that supports the ambitions of a growing business. Working closely with the CFO
Main duties of the job The Finance Director at Agincare will report to the Group CFO, leading a finance team of approximately 40 colleagues. The role involves overseeing financial operations for over 40 legal entities and managing a turnover expected to reach £243m, with close to 6,000 employees. This position requires more than technical expertise; it calls for leadership in developing people, simplifying complex operations, strengthening controls, and shaping a finance function that aligns with the company's growth ambitions. Responsibilities include driving finance transformation, treasury management, cash flow forecasting, building relationships with auditors and stakeholders, and supporting group budgeting and forecasting.
About us Agincare has been providing care for communities for over 40 years, expanding from a local care provider to one of the UK's largest national organisations. It operates around 200 locations across the country, including care and nursing homes, home care services, and live-in care. As a family-owned business, Agincare continues to grow, focusing on new care home developments and launching not-for-profit Children's Services. The organisation is committed to equal opportunities and supporting care leavers and the Armed Forces community. While expanding, Agincare maintains its core values of providing purposeful work and making a difference in people's lives.
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For over 40 years, Agincare has remained proudly family-owned, growing from a local care provider into a diverse national organisation. Today, we operate from around 200 locations across the UK, delivering a wide range of care and support services and helping thousands of people live well every day.
Built on strong foundations and a respected reputation, we're now focused on the next chapter of our growth. Continued investment in our people, systems and infrastructure is creating a more connected, efficient and scalable organisation, and we're looking for an exceptional Finance Director to help optimise performance into the future.
Reporting to the Group CFO, you'll lead a finance function of around 40 colleagues, overseeing financial operations across more than 40 legal entities within a complex and evolving organisation due to hit £243m turnover this year, and employing close to 6,000 team members. This is far more than a technical finance role. We're looking for an accomplished leader who can develop people, simplify complexity, strengthen controls and help shape a finance function that supports the ambitions of a growing business.
Working closely with the CFO, CEO and senior leadership team, you'll be a trusted partner who combines financial discipline with commercial insight and operational understanding. Most importantly, this role is a key part of Agincare's long-term succession planning and offers a genuine opportunity to develop into a future Group CFO position.
What you'll leadThis is a broad leadership role with significant influence across the Group. Key responsibilities will include:
Leading, mentoring and developing a finance team of around 40 colleagues, creating a culture of accountability, excellence and continuous improvement. Overseeing finance operations across a complex multi-entity structure, ensuring robust controls, accuracy and efficiency. Driving finance transformation, process simplification and systems integration projects that enable future growth. Partnering with operational and senior leaders to provide insight, challenge and support informed decision-making. Leading treasury management, cashflow forecasting and financial risk management activities. Building strong relationships with auditors, banks, advisers and key external stakeholders. Supporting group budgeting, forecasting, performance analysis and long-term financial planning.About youYou'll be a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with a proven track record of leading sizeable finance teams within complex, multi-site organisations, probably as a Financial Controller or Head of Finance.
You'll bring strong technical expertise, but what will really set you apart is your ability to lead people and drive positive change. You'll enjoy building capability within teams, developing future leaders and creating an environment where people can perform at their best.
You'll be commercially minded, operationally aware and comfortable working in partnership with senior stakeholders. Most importantly, you'll be looking for a role where you can make a genuine impact while preparing yourself for the next stage of your career.
Ideally, you'll bring experience of:
Multi-entity group structures. Large-scale, multi-site operations. Organisations with turnover exceeding £100m. Founder-led or family-owned businesses. High-volume workforce environments and payroll operations. NetSuite or similar ERP platforms. Social care or other operationally intensive service sectors.Why Agincare?This is a rare opportunity to join a successful, financially stable business with the entrepreneurial spirit and ambition to keep growing. And in an organisation that provides purposeful work that makes a difference to peoples lives.
You'll work alongside experienced and supportive leaders, influence decisions at the highest levels of the organisation and play a key role in shaping how the business evolves over the coming years.
And for someone with the ambition, capability and drive to progress further, you'll be joining a business that is actively investing in its future leadership and sees this role as a natural pathway to a future Group CFO appointment.
About usAgincare is proudly celebrating 40 years of caring for communities. As a rapidly growing, family-owned care provider with close to 6000 team members, and expanding every day, we continue to strengthen our services through recent care home developments and the launch of our new not-for-profit Childrens Services. Today, Agincare is one of the UKs largest care providers, delivering care and nursing homes, home care, extra care, supported living, and live-in care across more than 170 locations across England.
As a signatory of the Care Leaver Covenant, we are committed to supporting care leavers by guaranteeing either an interview or an informal career conversation. We are proud to support the Armed Forces community through our alliance, offering guaranteed interviews to service leavers and members of the military community.
All of our services are regulated by the CQCand Agincare is proud to be anequal opportunities employerand encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences.At present, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.
As care is always in high demand, we have a wide range of exciting opportunities available. If this particular role isnt the right fit for you, we encourage you to explore our other vacancies, www.agincare.com/careers
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with a proven track record of leading sizeable finance teams within complex, multi-site organisations.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
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Employer details Employer name Agincare
Address Agincare Head Office Services
Dorset
DT5 1BB
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.agincare.com/ (Opens in a new tab)