Director of Finance Transformation required by our client an international organisation, currently implementing a global business transformation programme. You will be a talented transformation leader partnering with the senior finance leadership team and delivering multiple finance transformation objectives.

The role is responsible for the delivery of the company’s global Finance Innovation Programme (FIP) and other high value solutions, solving complex business problems and implementing change at all levels with a focus on benefits delivery. You will ensure effective programme governance, stakeholder engagement, management of resource and oversight of all designs, plans and implementations.

Based at our clients prestigious offices in London the role offers a fantastic opportunity to join a multicultural environment. They are offering a salary up to £90K + bonus & exceptional benefits including attractive pension scheme (employer contributions up to 22%) and 32 days holiday plus bank holidays.

Director of Finance Transformation – Key skills and experience:-

• Strong understanding of finance transformation with demonstrable ability to identify changes required in processes, people, systems and / or data and impact on finance function
• Finance and risk management and reporting: comfortable with interpreting and presenting financial and risk reports across a portfolio of different projects
• Relationship Building and Stakeholder Management: experience of developing relationships, coaching and management of senior stakeholders at the highest levels inside an organization
• Shared Service transition and operating management for complex, multi-national finance functions
• Operating in international and multicultural organizations
• Programme management experience
• Experience of achieving outcomes and exceptional results through others, virtual teams and those not in direct reporting lines
• Comfortable with leading those with complementary skills/expertise in different areas of business change
• Proven ability to drive organisational change in a complex, high pressure environment 

Director of Finance Transformation – Accountabilities

Leadership

• Accountable for the successful delivery, planning, implementation and embedding of the Finance Innovation (FIP) deliverables in the organisation.
• Lead specific initiatives and projects (as required) and act as SRO as required to ensure the effective delivery of financial transformation objectives.
• Deputise for the Chief Finance Officer as required

Relationships and stakeholder management

• Provide leadership, engage senior stakeholders and encourage corporate decision making, delivering change that increases effectiveness and efficiency, customer focus and staff engagement.  Identify and provide solutions to remove blocks to implementation of strategic decisions across the organization.

• Support the CFO to ensure appropriate stakeholder, client & partner relationship management arrangements are in place to enable effective delivery of agreed deliverables and benefits.
• Act as a finance transformation “ambassador” at key senior-level meetings and forums across the wider organisation and with key external stakeholders (UK government, funders, etc.) to successfully engage and communicate the objectives and progress of the transformation. 

Management and delivery

• Ensure delivery of a fit for purpose operating model for the finance function, supporting our strategic priorities; foster a cultural change towards a more customer focused organization with greater cost consciousness and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Provide commercial insight and finance operational expertise, drive the simplification and standardisation of systems and processes globally whilst enhancing the control environment.
• Ensure development and delivery of solutions to improve business insight and our ability to meet reporting obligations.
• Champion and empower our people to upskill and make better business decisions.
• Manage the finance systems portfolio, in conjunction with GIS, and commencing planning for ERP replacement.

For further information, please forward your CV to our Consultant Elaine Hallworth and she will provide further information regards this exciting opportunity that is offering a salary up to £90K + bonus & exceptional benefits including attractive pension scheme (employer contributions up to 22%) and 32 days holiday plus bank holidays

Systems Infrastructure Engineer required to join an expanding software solutions company, we are seeking a candidate with a broad selection of technical and communication skills.

Systems Infrastructure Engineer – Skills and Experience in some of the following:-

• Advanced knowledge of Windows Server and/or Linux (or at least one at advanced level).
• Competent in installing, configuring and maintaining servers (Windows/Linux).
• Competent in installing and managing web server technology (Apache/IIS).
• Knowledge of the deployment of application server technologies (e.g. Tomcat, JBoss).
• Advanced knowledge of communications device management and policies (firewalls, switches etc).
• Strong knowledge of network design and implementation principles.
• Ability to design and implement resilience mechanisms.
• Ability to design and manage backup solutions.
• Knowledge of installation of DBMS solutions such as Oracle or SQLServer.
• Knowledge of implementation of EDI, XML and Web Services.
• Experience with virtualisation tools (e.g. VMWare/Hyper-V etc).
• Strong knowledge with the configuration of Cloud platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS / Azure).
• Knowledge of EDI principles and the configuration of SFTP, HTTPS and digital certificates.
• Implementation of UPS based recovery solutions.
• Knowledge of infrastructure monitoring.

With regards to technical skills, our client does not necessarily expect candidates to have experience of every item listed. Our client will judge candidates primarily on their depth of knowledge and experience of the items they do claim to have experience of.

Systems Infrastructure Engineer – Main Requirements & Responsibilities

• Candidates need to be a proactive, self-motivated and have the ability to work well both in a group and on individual tasks, with a hands-on approach and mind set for improvement and optimisation.
• Interfacing with multiple internal stakeholders including Development, Projects, Test and Support teams.
• Interfacing with end users and all other external stakeholders in order to determine their evolving needs including ideal deployment and scalability requirements for new product capabilities.
• Building and maintaining scalable, reliable and repeatable infrastructure.
• Ensuring business continuity and systems availability.
• Ensuring security and adherence to ISO 27001 security standards.
• Flexibility to on occasion deal with out of hours issues.
• Work alongside the Infrastructure Manager to deliver the Technical Plan.

For further information about this interesting role, please forward your CV to our team and we will provide further information to you

Global Process Owner (Finance) required for our international client, to be a part of the Corporate FP&A team and work closely with the key Finance stakeholders on the design and delivery of changes to the Allocations and FP&A processes as part of our clients Finance Programme.

Global Process Owner will be based out of our client’s offices in London and offers a fantastic opportunity to join an exciting Financial Innovation programme in a multicultural environment. They are offering a salary up to £45K + bonus & exceptional benefits including attractive pension scheme (employer contributions up to 22%) and 32 days holiday plus bank holidays based on an 18 month FTC.

Global Process Owner Finance – Essential Skills

• Experience of financial planning and management reporting processes within an international organisation.
• Experience in process improvement, process mapping, developing RACI charts and KPIs, controls & risks.
• Analytical skills/experience.
• Experience in Project Management
• Operating in international and multi-cultural organisations.
• Flexibility, independence and initiative to perform successfully in a rapidly changing environment.
• Experience of managing a diverse group of stakeholders in multiple locations.
• Experience of Microsoft tools including MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, MS Project and Sharepoint.

Projects & Contracts Process Assurance Owner – Desirable Skills

• Experience of SAP
• Use of six sigma
• Experience in data management and integrity.

This is a new role providing the full range of process design and delivery activities as part of the Finance Innovation Programme.

The main opportunity and challenge for the project is to simplify, streamline and standardise global finance processes and controls that help to achieve the benefits of the Finance Innovation Programme.  This is both an opportunity and challenge to standardise and reduce the excessive number of processes currently being operated.

The role will develop fit for purpose, lean processes and gain buy in from numerous stakeholders and process users, ensuring end to end improvements are achieved.

Process Assurance Owner for Projects & Contracts opportunity with our international client, to work closely with the Global Process Owner on the design and delivery of changes to the global projects and contracts processes as part of their Finance Innovation Programme.

Projects & Contracts Process Assurance Owner – Essential Skills

• Ideally experience/appreciation of financial process improvement, process mapping, developing RACI charts and KPIs, controls & risks.
• Analytical skills/experience.
• Experience in Project Management
• Operating in international and multi-cultural organisations.
• Experience of managing a diverse group of stakeholders in multiple locations.
• Experience of Microsoft tools including MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, MS Project and Sharepoint.
• Excellent communication skills – experience of conveying complex information in an easy to understand way.

Projects & Contracts Process Assurance Owner – Desirable Skills

• Experience of SAP
• Use of six sigma
• Experience in data management and integrity.

The role will contribute to the delivery of the process workstream outputs that form a significant part of the overall outputs of the Finance Innovation Programme.  Their work will enable the achievement of important benefits and improvements to the effectiveness and efficiency of the global finance team.

This includes the effective management of the deliverables from design through delivery, implementation and transition to BAU.  The role holder must have well developed communication and influencing skills as they will be required to work with the wider finance and operational communities across the globe to ensure that outputs are fit for purpose, meet the requirements of

This is both an opportunity and challenge to standardise and reduce the excessive number of processes currently being operated.

The roles will need to develop fit for purpose, lean processes and gain buy in from numerous stakeholders and process users, ensuring end to end improvements are achieved.

For further information, please forward your CV to our Consultant Elaine Hallworth and she will provide further information regards this exciting opportunity that is offering a salary up to £42K + bonus & exceptional benefits including attractive pension scheme (employer contributions up to 22%) and 32 days holiday plus bank holidays based on an 18 month FTC.