Chief Financial Officer

at  Blenheim Palace

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As CFO you will be responsible for strategic financial planning and execution across the entire Blenheim Palace Estate and Pye Homes. The successful candidate will be a commercial and pragmatic leader with a proven track record of strategic planning, building effective and motivated finance teams, investment appraisal and improving the financial investment environment. This position “sits above the business” rather than within the businesses. It is focussed on ensuring that the Estate executes on its agreed strategies/plan, challenges strategies to see if they are producing their intended results and drives relentless long-term growth from all capital invested.
They will lead the Finance and IT functions, drive the profitable growth of the Estate and evaluate all new investment and business opportunities. It is a hands-on role, but positioned at the pinnacle of the business, interpreting data from around the organisation, helping to transform finance from a measurer and controller to a pro-active business partner. If you have any further questions or need additional assistance, please email the people team at Peopleteam@blenheimpalace.com.
What are we looking for:
Our ideal candidate will have previous experience of, or be able to demonstrate an engaged passion for, purpose-led businesses and will be excited by the opportunity to creatively engage in demonstrating that landed estates are not historic anachronisms but are uniquely powerful forces for good which can generate outsize returns by being the lifeblood of the local economy, enhancing the lives of local people and sharing and protecting this extraordinary place. The successful candidate will demonstrate a flair for creating/challenging business models which derive from or deliver this.

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