Our client is a leading global professional services firm with over 17,000 staff in the UK alone and a track-record of delivering market-leading solutions. In Financial Transformation, they provide a range of services to support clients throughout their transformation journey. Their capabilities range from brief strategy assessments to E2E implementations of transformation, including Cloud based ERP technologies and Finance Operating models. Their Financial Transformation practice has been growing significantly over the last few years and remains a strategic priority area for significant growth. Over the last few years, clients have been transforming their Finance function across all parts of their Operating model with Cloud based technologies providing a key enabler for transformational change.
Your responsibilities as a Director:
· Engagement delivery: responsibility for leading programmes and projects of a large size and complexity, with respect to planning, managing and executing the delivery of engagements, including overseeing the writing of client reports and the review and quality assurance of work products
· Risk management: identifyingand managing risks, engagement assurance and commercial risk management andensuring the Firm's frameworks are implemented appropriately and effectively
· People development: leading largeteams, identifying team member development needs and accelerating development with particular emphasis on managing and mentoring engagement team members, coaching and skills transfer
· Practice development: taking aleading role in processes and initiatives that are key to scaling the business and achieving our Mission Statement
· Business development: leading the establishment and development of relationships both internally and with clients, as well as leading business development activity (including developing, contributing to and presenting proposals/bids for future work)
Necessary skills & experience
- CIMA, ACCA or equivalent
· Proven track record of working on finance improvement consulting projects, working across multiple aspects of a finance function and ERP implementation particularly SAP, S/4 HANA, Central Finance
· Good understanding of issues and challenges facing Finance functions, Finance business partnering and trends in Finance.
· Experience managing teams to deliver to deadlines and required quality standards; experience developing, coaching and mentoring team members
· Excellent communicator with the personal skills to build strong and lasting internal and client relationships; and the ability to deliver clear, concise, focused messages to senior finance team members or clients
· Strong commercial and financial analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, generate insights and construct solutions.
· Impactful written communications, producing high quality,client ready outputs (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio)
· Deep knowledge and understanding of the Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Projects, Record to Report process (underlying drivers to general ledger transactions, consolidation, disclosures etc.) and interdependencies with other processes.
· Strong knowledge of month end close processes and key constraints organisations
· Experience of multiple enterprise software deployments (preferably cloud deployments)
· Knowledge of how Finance processes are enabled within finance systems landscape (preferably SAP, S/4HANA or SAP CFIN)
Relevant large corporates experience and knowledge in one or more of the following sectors:
Aerospace & Defence
Consumer Markets
Energy
Industrial Manufacturing
Leisure
Life Sciences
Retail
Technology, Media & Telecommunications
If you are interested in this role please email your details to
cv@mwn.co.uk