About Us 

Wiper and True is a founder-led, fast-growing, award-winning brewing business, based in Bristol. 

We are dedicated to making Beautiful Beer and providing an extraordinary place to work.

Our vision is to become the best independent craft brewery in the UK, starting in the South West. In 2024 we were named Brewery of the Year and Sustainability Champion, in a prestigious poll of our peers and industry commentators.

Wiper and True comprises two interconnected businesses. 

The first business is a state-of-the-art production facility that brews beer to be sold to the On- and Off-Trade, E-Commerce and for contract partners.

We also run our own venues. Our two distinct destination taprooms each have their own unique character, but both offer our customers a space to try our beers and experience our brand through events, music, food and brewery tours. 

Both parts of the business are in high growth and have exciting plans for the years ahead.

The business prides itself on the quality of its award-winning range of premium products, which are available across the UK. The business is well invested with top-of-the-range equipment and a sophisticated operation that delivers consistently high-quality beer at good margin.

We are looking for a Head of Finance to join our exceptional leadership team, and work closely with the CEO to drive our growth plans.

We have a strong balance sheet and shareholder base.

The Role

This role offers strategic and hands-on involvement in a fast-growing FMCG company.

You will lead a small finance team made up of exceptional and hard-working individuals, drive strategic financial planning, and oversee management and financial reporting. You will shape the Company's financial direction, optimise core business processes, and play a key role in its growth.

Working closely with the leadership team you will identify, assess, and implement opportunities to improve performance. 

This role requires an enterprising mindset, capable of building new processes, models and reports from scratch; developing systems for demand forecasting; building pricing models; detailed sales data analysis; improving stock and Gross Profit analysis; developing new reports across departments.

You will be the Company's first full time Head of Finance, taking over from a fractional Finance Director. This role will allow the possibility for growth as the business develops, and we welcome candidates that want to grow with us.

About You

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:

Personal Characteristics

• Curious and forensic with financial acumen and diagnostic thinking.

• Solutions-focused with a willingness to make - and be accountable for - recommendations.

• Able to challenge positively; a clear thinker with the ability to communicate complex situations in engaging ways to all stakeholders.

• Collaborative - can work with and coach non-Finance team members.

• Proactive - you will thrive on building new systems, creative problem solving and advanced modelling.

• Sense of urgency and willingness to hold your team and managers in the business to account - a focus on getting things done.

• Lead by example - respecting our collaborative culture, this role pulls together different parts of the business, and results in recommendations and action.

• You see this as an exciting next step in your career, joining an organisation in which you can drive growth, and in turn create opportunities for personal development for you and your finance team.

Skills and Experience

• A formal accounting qualification - CIMA, ACA, ACCA.

• Evidence of Head Of Finance experience.

• Worked in a SME or entrepreneurial environment.

• Modelling and analysis - this is a reasonably complex small business: two divisions; duty; CapEx / capital allocation decisions; working capital. It is essential that candidates are highly skilled in Excel and advanced modelling.

• Able to manage and delegate.

• Has taken finance outside of the finance box (not just a reporting accountant).

Desirable skills but not essential

• Manufacturing and or FMCG

• Retail / hospitality

• Beer

• Debt / equity / fundraising

About Us

Wiper and True is a brewery dedicated to making Beautiful Beer and providing an extraordinary place to work and visit. Our employees enjoy a work culture that promotes trust, inclusivity, teamwork and a continuous drive to improve and support each other.

Wiper and True benefits include family and friends discounts on products and taproom, enhanced holiday, parental leave and sick pay, plus opportunities for continuous professional development.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

Location: Old Market, Bristol

Hours: Full time 40 hours per week Monday to Friday. This role is office based, we are happy to discuss some flexibility with hours and remote working.

Salary: £70-75,000 per annum.

How to apply

Please click on the apply here link and follow the instructions on our vacancies page and you will be able to upload your CV. Please also include a cover letter to tell us, in approximately 300 words, why you think you would be the perfect person for Wiper and True and this role.

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