Who are IDHL?

At IDHL, we’re more than a digital agency, we’re a strategic partner to ambitious brands, helping them accelerate growth in the digital economy.

Our expertise is delivered through three core divisions: Performance, Web & eCommerce, and Intelligence – all working closely together to create impact across channels.

We’re also home to Fostr, a Shopify Plus agency for luxury and lifestyle brands, and The MTM Agency, specialists in integrated marketing and audience engagement.

What connects it all is our focus on outcomes, not just outputs. We back each other, take pride in what we do, and make sure the way we work works for everyone.

Role Overview

The Head of Group Finance and FP&A will lead the Group’s financial planning, forecasting, and performance management activities across a multi-entity, multi-currency environment. This role is responsible for delivering high-quality insight to support strategic decision-making, ensuring robust group consolidation, and providing clear, actionable analysis to the Executive team.

The successful candidate will bring strong experience of group consolidations involving foreign currency translation, advanced financial modelling, and the operation and optimisation of Sage Intacct (or similar cloud-based finance systems). They will act as a key business partner to senior stakeholders across the Group, embedding a strong performance culture and driving continuous improvement in planning and reporting processes.

Key Responsibilities

Group Planning, Forecasting & Budgeting

• Lead the Group budgeting, reforecasting, and long-range planning processes across all legal entities

• Develop and maintain integrated financial models covering P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet at both entity and Group level

• Ensure forecasts reflect operational drivers and are aligned to strategic objectives

Group Consolidation & Foreign Currency

• Lead the Group consolidation process, ensuring timely and accurate consolidated reporting

• Manage foreign currency translation, including appropriate treatment of FX movements, revaluation, and translation reserves

• Partner with Group Financial Controller to ensure alignment between management reporting and statutory consolidation principles

• Ensure intercompany balances reconcile at group level

• Manage the quarterly VAT return

Management Reporting & Insight

• Deliver clear and insightful monthly management reporting packs for the Executive team and Board

• Provide variance analysis against budget and forecast, leading the risks and opportunities process

• Develop and track key performance indicators at Group and business-unit level

• Take ownership of the Group Overheads cost base for budgeting, monthly reporting and variance analysis

Systems & Data (Sage Intacct)

• Drive automation and continuous improvement in FP&A reporting and planning processes

• Work closely with Finance systems and IT to enhance consolidation and reporting capability

Business Partnering & Strategic Support

• Partner with the CFO, CEO, and senior leadership team on strategic decision-making

• Support acquisitions, integrations, investment cases, and commercial initiatives

• Prepare financial analysis and materials for Board, investor, and lender presentations

Key Skills & Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in a senior FP&A role within a multi-entity group

• Hands-on experience of group consolidation, including foreign currency translation

• Strong financial modelling, budgeting, and forecasting capability

• Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to senior stakeholders

Preferred

• Experience using Sage Intacct, particularly in a group consolidation environment

• Background in a PE-backed, high-growth, or acquisitive business

• Exposure to post-acquisition integration and system harmonisation

Qualifications

• ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified (or equivalent)

Personal Attributes

• Commercially minded with strong strategic thinking skills

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment

• Confident communicator with the ability to influence at senior levels

• Detail-oriented while maintaining a strong big-picture perspective