Jayne Cottam will be joining Assura Plc's board as its new CFO before the end of October, filling a role taken on by CEO Jonathan Murphy.

Murphy will continue to perform CFO functions until Cottam steps in, according to a release.

Cottam is joining Assura from her stint in one of the U.K.'s largest private housing developers and was previously also a director of finance for the continental Europe division of European Metal Recycling Ltd.