Head of Financial Shared Services

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the people agenda, coaching and developing direct reports to build an internal talent pool for succession always championing the company’s behaviours and values.
• Create and deliver clear objectives and strategy for the FSSC ensuring adequate resources and skills to achieve targets and meet SLA’s.
• Deliver and manage an Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Record to Report and Payroll service to the business, which is efficient, cost effective, meets stakeholder requirements, and satisfies regulatory requirements.
• Ensure all owned business processes have fully operating controls which are evidenced and meet the Group standards.
• Continually assess and refine SLAs with key stakeholders and report against these, implementing improvements plans as necessary.
• Monitor KPIs with regular reporting and benchmarking.
• Maintain strong relationships with the wider finance, IT and commercial communities.
• Lead the FSSC finance transformation.
• Effectively manage and monitor the flow of work across the FSSC areas, re-planning and prioritising resources as necessary.
• Adapt model and processes to future shape as the Group grows both organically and inorganically.
• Ensure that appropriate risk management plans are in place across all department of FSSC.

Qualification & Requirements

• Significant previous experience of leading a large financial shared service centre (FSSC).
• An established leader with a demonstrable track record of building and developing large high performing teams with an emphasis of building a progressive and supportive working environment.
• Broad financial and systems knowledge across AP, AR, Financial Control, Reporting, Customer investment, Fixed Assets and Capex.
• Significant experience of a large ERP system ideally SAP or Oracle.
• Previous experience of change management / finance transformation is highly desirable.
• Experience within a financial controls environment and end to end process improvement within a financial shared services environment.
• Ideally you will be a Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
• The ability and want to take both a high-level view whilst also maintaining and understanding the detail.

Benefits

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