Manager, Operational Finance, Finance and Performance, Consulting

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Within the Enterprise Technology & Performance practice, the Operational Finance team provides a market-differentiating capability. We help clients realise the value from Finance transformation by addressing challenges around their data. We deliver solutions to improve data quality, accuracy and consistency, efficiently enrich the data to turn it into financial information that can be used for improved reporting, automation and AI driven improvements.

Responsibilities

As a Manager within the Operational Finance team, you will have responsibility for the following:

• Design and implement changes to core finance process, technologies, teams and data to achieve real business outcomes.
• - Address client business challenges, by defining transformation at the intersection of process, people, data and technology.
• - Communicate messages with clarity and confidence to drive business change and instill confidence in our clients' finance teams.
• - Collect and analyse information to develop informed recommendations that shape or support our clients' strategy.
• Work with multiple cross functional teams to collaborate and deliver a high quality work product, from business cases to new process designs.
• within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.
• - collaborate with relevant stakeholders to deliver favorable commercial outcomes.

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Knowledge of Finance and Financial Data:

• Shaped the intersection between data, systems, and process across Finance to deliver transformation outcomes.
• Understand the industry and technology trends and the impact they have on the Finance organization and able to credibly form opinions on how these would impact and shape client decisions.

Project Delivery:

• Including experience in shaping and leading large multi-functional teams in a client facing environment, with evidence of planning and managing projects on time and to budget.
• You are able to operate in complex corporate environment and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels to facilitate dialog between the technical teams and senior finance and business stakeholders to drive solutions and implement lasting changes in the processes as well as behaviors.
• You have experience of working with CFOs, C-Level and Finance Leadership to assist, support and influence them, whilst building and maintaining strong relationships.

Prior experience across the majority of the following:

• Experience working on finance transformation projects in either technology implementation, target operating model, service delivery model or financial process redesign and automation.
• Experience leading the definition of key reporting and information model dimensions and work with business and finance stakeholders to shape how to build and improve finance processes that will assure its accuracy.
• Experience driving teams that deliver changes to financial data model and business adoption activities, including capability build, benefit tracking and business readiness.
• Experience in managing teams to reconcile complex data sets, and influencing stakeholders in the resolution of reconciliation differences and their root causes.
• Experience within Robotic Process Automation, Cloud based technologies and working with the Finance function would be beneficial.
• Experience working with core ERP and EPM technologies such as SAP, Oracle, Workday Financials, OneStream, Anaplan, Blackline.
• Experience working with broader digital technologies that enhance the operations of a finance team.
• Understanding Finance as a function and as a consumer of data on both Management reporting and statutory level.
• In depth understanding of financial data, including data transformation, enrichment, and reconciliations.
• Finance professional qualification such as (but not limited to): ACA, ACCA, CIMA
• Leading a transformation team, that has worked to develop, improve or transform finance operations.

• Experience in the Financial Services and/or Insurance industries.

Desirable skills:

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We help CFOs drive value for their organisations across three dimensions:

Finance Business Architecture: a team that looks to join together the enitre finance organisation across process, data, people and technology. Leading transformation programmes, often with a technology platform (SAP S/4 HANA, Oracle, Workday etc.). at the core, we use our extensive knowledge of the end-to-end finance organisation to re-imagine and realise our client's future finance operations.

End-to-end Process Expertise: We have in-depth knowledge of core finance processes (R2R, O2C, P2P) and partner with our clients to transform the heart of the finance organisation. We assist clients to design a finance function that is powered by machines and new models of talent in order to maintain the relevance and competitiveness of Finance.

Project Management, Implementation & Business Adoption: encompasses activities required to lead and enable Finance Transformation projects, implementing and supporting the business adoption and readiness. We help CFOs assess what they need and should be doing today and how to prepare for tomorrow to drive change through their organisation.

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