Finance Change- Senior Manager

My client a leading consultancy services firm are seeking to hire a Senior Manager within Finance Optimisation.

Using your expertise and experience of finance functions, you will be working alongside deep industry experts to create, facilitate and execute change our client’s Finance functions.
From designing new customer-centric operating and service delivery models, to empowering finance teams to deliver continuous improvements or acting as the ‘Business Integrator’ in a large and complex change programme, you will work as part of a core team alongside the client’s own people. Here are some examples of projects we typically get involved in:

• Finance Operating Model design – including work in mergers, acquisitions, demergers and shared services / offshoring and outsourcing.
• Programme Management of large, complex Finance Systems change programmes.
• Organisation and cultural change within Finance.
• Programme Quality Assurance of different aspects of Finance Change; from the QA of a Shared Services implementation to ‘right-sizing’ a Finance Systems purchase.
• Empowering Finance teams to be self-sufficient in delivering continuous improvement.
•  Acceleration and optimisation of Finance processes using our unique 3D approach to process change as well as using Robotics Process Automation (RPA).
• Finance systems change.

The chance to operate at the forefront of Finance Optimisation, working within and across a range of sectors including Insurance, Banking, Capital Markets, Wealth Management, Consumer Products, Energy, Retail and Telecom.

• Freedom to be innovative in exploring and delivering new ideas to enhance finance functions and in building a practice in a non-bureaucratic and supportive environment.
• The opportunity to build strong quality relationships with clients based on a genuine focus on helping them achieve their objectives.
• A good work-life balance with our 3-4-5 policy to ensure that if you do need to work away from home or overseas you are never away for more than three nights a week.

We are looking for qualified accountants (CIMA, ICAEW, ACCA, CPA) with over 7 years experience gained from working in a Finance function in industry or in consultancy or both.
Candidates need to have excellent client relationship and communication skills, experience of leading teams and demonstrating effective leadership skills. They need to have a strong understanding of finance transformation projects with project / programme management experience across the full project life-cycle and the ability to take ownership, provide a point of view and deliver results in challenging, client-facing environments.
Types of experience required:

• Target Operating Model Design and / or Implementation.
• Accounting and regulatory driven finance function change; impact assessment and optimisation e.g. IFRS, Solvency II etc.
• Finance systems advisory, design and implementation: ERP, Financial Reporting packages, purchase ledger tools, bank reconciliation tools etc.
• Re-design and optimisation of key finance process cycles; Record to Report (close processes), Order to Cash, Purchase to Pay etc.
• Chart of Accounts design and implementation.
• Robotics Process Automation (RPA), cognitive and predictive analytics.
• Finance, Actuarial, Risk and Treasury Integration.
• Reporting Design and / or implementation (could be in the Finance regulation space).
• Organisation Design and / or Implementation.
• Shared Services Design and / or Implementation.
• Finance outsourcing / off-shoring experience.
• Finance systems architecture design and implementation.