Director Shared Services

Key Responsibilities

• Leading day-to-day delivery across a 150+ person global team, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and high-frequency performance management.
• Driving transformation across end-to-end processes using principles of simplification, standardisation, and automation, with the long-term aim of a location-agnostic model.
• Developing and embedding financial policies, controls, and processes that safeguard assets and support operational scalability.
• Ensuring first-time-right processing of transactions, and partnering across the CFO Office on more complex matters.
• Supporting statutory, regulatory, tax, and audit requirements, and maintaining close alignment with financial control and compliance teams.
• Providing regular insight to the board and executive team on performance, risks, and opportunities across core financial administration processes.

Qualification & Requirements

You will bring significant experience in leading large, multinational back-office operations (P2P, O2C, R2R, Master Data Management), ideally within both Private Equity environments and very large-cap settings.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• A recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• A strong track record in process optimisation, automation, and control design.
• Experience managing teams across multiple countries and time zones.
• Confidence operating with multiple GAAP/IFRS requirements and supporting global tax compliance.
• The ability to motivate diverse teams, with strong cultural awareness; multilingual capability is advantageous.
• A pragmatic, solutions-focused approach aligned to growth, efficiency, and value creation.
• Ideally resides in the North West of England

Benefits

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