Finance Director - Parcelforce Worldwide

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Finance Director - Parcelforce Worldwide
Competitive salary, plus car allowance, family healthcare, 35% annual bonus potential, 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time
Royal Mail Farringdon

Finance Director - Parcelforce Worldwide

Location: Farringdon, London - Hybrid with regular presence of approx. 2-3 days required in the office.

Reports to: Commercial Finance Director

We are seeking an exceptional Finance Director - Parcelforce Worldwide (PFW) to lead the financial strategy, performance, and long-term commercial direction of one of the UK's most recognised parcel delivery brands. This is a high-impact strategic leadership position, with full end-to-end P&L accountability, offering the opportunity to influence major strategic, operational and commercial decisions.

As PFW continues to transform in a highly competitive, fast-moving market, you will play a pivotal role in steering the business through turnaround activity, embedding new performance standards, and supporting strategic integration and transformation programmes. You will operate with significant visibility across the organisation and lead a team of four finance professionals to deliver strong performance today while shaping long-term success.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and influence business strategy and KPIs, ensuring alignment with the long-term growth agenda
• Lead the Annual Business Plan and forecasting cycles, driving robust assumptions, scenario planning and clear articulation of risks and opportunities
• Partner the Managing Director and leadership teams to embed a strong performance culture and enable effective commercial and financial decision-making
• Accelerate transformational change, using insight, commercial acumen and analytical rigour to support rapid decision-making and maximise return on investment
• Enhance forward-looking reporting and analysis, enabling informed, data-driven leadership decisions
• Develop clear action plans for monthly and quarterly performance, providing insightful commentary on revenue, profit, margin and KPI trends for the Executive Board
• Champion continuous improvement and standardisation, elevating finance processes and challenging legacy ways of working
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of Finance Business Partners, acting as a role model for best-practice business partnering
• Regularly deputise for the Commercial Finance Director, contributing to broader strategic leadership

About You

You combine strategic vision, commercial strength and hands-on leadership. You will bring:

• MBA-qualified and/or a recognised professional accountant
• Experienced in commercial finance, with a strong track record of leading turnarounds, transformation and strategic integration
• Skilled in operating within private-equity-style environments, managing multiple stakeholders and delivering results
• A credible and influential communicator, able to challenge and engage senior leaders
• A proven leader of finance business partnering teams within a matrix structure
• Commercially astute, with experience delivering growth strategies and adding measurable value
• A proactive, solutions-focused team player with a strong "can-do" approach
• Agile, adaptable and comfortable driving change at pace
• Confident in challenging the status quo and improving processes
• Technically strong across accounting, controls, governance, audit, ethics and risk management
• Highly IT-literate, with experience across Microsoft tools, finance systems and ERP platforms
• Experienced as a Finance Director within retail, fast fashion, FMCG or parcels (advantageous)

Qualifications

• MBA and/or recognised accounting qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Why This Role?

If you are a forward-thinking finance leader who thrives in dynamic, competitive markets and wants to play a central role in shaping the future of Parcelforce Worldwide, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Extra Benefits
• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It's free, and it's for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face/virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Closing Date: Thursday 5th March 2026 Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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