Finance Integration Manager

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Company Description

Informa is a leading international events, intelligence, and scholarly research group.

We're the specialist's specialist. Through hundreds of powerful brands, we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make breakthroughs, and take better informed decisions.

Informa is listed on London Stock Exchange and a member of FTSE 100, with over 10,000 colleagues working in more than 30 countries.

Informa's divisions include:

Informa Connect, a specialist in content-driven events and digital communities that allow professionals to meet, connect, learn, and share knowledge.

Informa Intelligence, providing digital intelligence and data-based products, consultancy and research services that help businesses in specialist markets make better informed decisions, spot opportunities and gain competitive edge.

Informa Markets, creating platforms for international markets to trade, innovate and grow. Through over 500 leading brands, our exhibitions, specialist digital content and data solutions allow customers operating in specialist markets to meet and trade, and for their businesses and markets to thrive.

Informa Tech, a division bringing specialism in technology. We aim to inspire the global technology community to design, build and run a better digital world through research, media, training and events that inform, educate and connect businesses and professionals working in technology.

Taylor & Francis, specialist in scholarly research and in helping academic and research communities make new breakthroughs. We commission, curate, produce and publish scholarly research and reference-led content in specialist subject areas, helping to advance research and enabling knowledge to be discovered and shared.

Global Support is Informa's sixth division, with major hubs in the United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong and Singapore as well as several smaller locations. As the team behind the teams, Global Support colleagues provide shared, efficient business services and function-specific expertise to each of Informa's operating divisions, enabling our commercial teams to focus on their markets and customers.

Job Description

This role, reporting to the Head of Financial Integration for Group Finance, supports the integration of acquisitions and the separation of divestments.

This is a hybrid role and will require 2/3 days based in our London office.

This role co-ordinates the finance integration into Informa's reporting, policies and processes, by working closely with Group Corporate Development, the Divisional Finance Teams, SSC Integration and Group Finance colleagues.

Specific tasks will include:

• Conduct high-level planning
• Capture and report risks
• Set up project reporting
• Organise weekly cross finance workstream meetings, capturing actions and updating plans accordingly
• Set out detailed planning, identifying milestones by workstream
• Identify owners for each task
• Manage cross workstream dependencies

The successful candidate will need to be able to manage across a number of projects, each with separate workstreams and their own resources and requirements. A strong ability to engage and communicate across a number of stakeholders and create strong, valued relationships is essential.

Qualifications

A professional accountancy qualification (ACCA/CIMA) and certification in project management.

Additional Information

What we're looking for

Capability, Knowledge and Experience:

• Proven history of owning and delivering projects
• Experience of engaging/managing multiple key stakeholders
• Strong oral and written communication skills; positive attitude and interpersonal skills
• Commercial awareness and experienced with working with Business partners at varying levels
• IT confident, with experience of a number of systems
• Worked within Group Finance of a Listed/Large Group Company environment
• Strong developed networking skills

Personal Characteristics:

• Detailed and analytical approach
• Relishes a challenge and the satisfaction of solving problems and succeeding projects
• Resilient to change and more importantly able to act as a change agent
• Absorb and summarise complex or diverse information
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, being able to manage and work on multiple tasks and prioritise effectively
• Builds strong relationships, and is a team player