
Senior Manager, Operational Finance, GBS - Finance Transformation
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Make decisions with confidence based on analysis of available information to drive business success
- Business Process & Technology Acumen - Articulate informed opinions to address clients' business challenges, by shaping the transformation strategy at the intersection of process, people, data, and technology
- Delivery Excellence - Lead projects and provide strategic direction across the account to deliver a superior client experience by developing the approach to solve complex client issues based and by providing project management expertise including senior stakeholder management
- Driving Change and Adoption - Communicate messages with clarity and confidence to senior stakeholders
- Executive Presence - Project confidence, establish credibility with and influence clients at all levels
- Intrapreneurship - generate innovative ideas and turn them into profitable business opportunities for our clients and the Firm
- Knows the Business and Sector - Advise the client to make decisions that positively impact return on investment; provides subject matter expertise on sector trends and leading practices
- Diversity & Inclusion - Managing diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
- Prior work experience within finance transformation, finance operating model and service delivery model, financial processes design/standardisation, automation and change management
- Experience in working in multi-functional teams in the design and/or implementation phases more than one of the following elements: Finance Function Strategy, Roadmap, Business case, Operating model development (incl. Enabling Technologies), Organisation Design, Service Performance Management, Governance, and Operational Support Processes.
- Experience in at least one of the core finance processes: Record to Report, project and fixed asset accounting, intercompany accounting, Order to Cash, Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting, main Finance related policies, Procure to Pay and others)
- Experience within Robotic Process Automation, Cloud based technologies and working with the Finance function would be beneficial
- Experience in at least one of the following - stakeholder management, change management, learning and development, capability development and build, succession planning and / or leadership development
- Understanding and gathering client business requirements; supporting effective day to day client relationships
- Experience in Finance Systems Implementation projects such as testing, design - or agile experience for supporting a technology delivery
- Experience working with Finance software vendors both in go-to-market activities, and design and implementation of the technology and surrounding processes and change management (e.g. BlackLine, High Radius, Kyriba, Xelix, etc.)
- Some experience in the use of BI, reporting and data visualisation technologies to appropriately represent information and analysis
- Work effectively in a team environment on client facing environment
- Experience working in Data Architecture, ETL development, and Data Warehousing across Finance and Accounting processes
- Holds skills and/or proficiency in the following: SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle SQL, Tableau, Python, VBA, Outsystems, QlikView and ACL and other similar tools
- Finance professional qualification such as (but not limited to): ACA, ACCA, CIMA