Head of Finance Shared Services

Key Responsibilities

• Identification and implementation of transactional workflows being centralized.
• Regional cost savings.
• Improvement to efficiency, controls and supporting our regional finance teams.
• Supporting the Director of Financial Accounting & Reporting and the CFO on making their vision for the ‘future of finance’ a reality.
• To support and grow a high performing team, motivated to deliver high standards of service to the business.
• Review of transactional processes across the business to identify and assess suitability to centralize into the shared service center.
• Create, communicate and implement new policies and procedures as required.
• Identify system dependencies for maximum efficiency and engage with operational finance team for implementation.
• Identify areas of improvement – Align to global risk matrix. Improvements include (not exclusive to) governance, controls, automation, efficiencies and supporting future growth.
• Lead on global compliance lead initiatives.
• Continually assess and refine SLAs with key stakeholders and report meaningful KPI’s to track progress, implementing improvements plans as necessary to drive delivery excellence.
• Monitor KPIs with regular reporting and benchmarking.
• Effectively manage and monitor the flow of work across the share service center, re-planning and prioritizing resources as necessary.
• Cultivate an environment that encourages maximum productivity and service effectiveness, professional development, open communication, and teamwork.
• Standardize and rationalize processes and ensure they are documented and satisfy the relevant financial control requirements, and ensure all owned processes have fully operating controls.
• Ensure appropriate training and knowledge transfer occurs across all relevant business processes.
• Manage relationships with internal stakeholders responsible for strategies, process consolidations, process improvements, system developments/implementations, and value-added initiatives.
• Work closely with operational heads to align on cross-functional global projects.
• Other ad hoc projects as required by the Finance Leadership team.

Qualification & Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

• Qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA.
• Previous experience in a similar role and level.
• Broad experience and knowledge of finance functions and experience with guiding and supporting strategic and tactical decision making.
• Ability to actively engage stakeholders and staff to ensure processes are executed consistently.
• Applied strategic thinking and complex problem solving.
• Strong team player, yet comfortable to work autonomously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deal with finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience in communicating and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Highly organized with the proven ability to prioritize and work to tight deadlines.
• Confident, proactive character, with the ability to take the lead in challenging situations; able to work unsupervised and use own initiative.
• Positive and collaborative approach to support and grow the global Buro Happold business.
• Resilient with excellent communication skills and demonstrable attention to detail.

Desirable skills:

• Experience of professional services or the construction industry would be an advantage.
• Experience of Unit4 accounting system would be useful but not essential.
• Experience of Deltek Vantagepoint would be an advantage but not essential.

Styles & Behaviors

• Creative thinker and problem solver – able to think strategically and also get into the detail.
• A good communicator and influencer – able to foster an environment for learning and creativity by leading a newly established team and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing.
• Is seen as a role model; strives to behave in a positive and inspiring manner at all times.
• Develops and maintains internal and external networks and relationships. Is able to call upon a wide range of contacts; puts colleagues in touch with internal and external contacts.
• Is able to secure other Buro Happold expertise/resources at the right time and can lead cross group meetings and events.
• Develops an open relationship with the team to ensure they have support and direction needed to deliver goals.
• Does not sit on problems, proactively seeks solutions. Through knowledge of their specialism minimizes challenging circumstances for the team or motivates them to a solution in unforeseen circumstances.
• Finds way of solving problems amicably by demonstrating a flexible and lateral approach to business and project situations avoiding confrontation and litigation.
• Takes time to consider how their specialism can impact positively on the business.

Benefits

No information available.