Senior Manager - Finance/Functional Architecture, Operational Finance - Finance & Performance, Consulting

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Job description

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We advise, implement, and operate transformational solutions that create world-class business performance management capabilities across the organisation. We are the market leader in business performance management in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe.

Finance Business Architecture looks to join the entire 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.

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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology, and corporate finance, we help our client's become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

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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.

Take your career to the next level by joining one of the world's best and most recognised professional services firms. The quality of our technical skills is enhanced through our practical knowledge of implementation and our ability to learn from each other.

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

• Lead large scale transformation opportunities within an architecture/design role to achieve tangible business outcomes, working collaboratively across senior multi-functional teams.
• Articulate informed opinions to address clients' business challenges, by shaping the transformation strategy at the intersection of process, people, data, and technology.
• Communicate messages with clarity and confidence at a senior Finance and technology stakeholder level, providing subject matter expertise on sector and industry trends and leading practices.
• Sell potential and current clients on Deloitte's services and negotiate profitable transactions for the Firm.
• Build relationships with our technology alliance partners to showcase latest innovations to our clients'.
• Generate innovative ideas and turn them into profitable business opportunities for our clients and the Firm.

As a Senior Manager, your roles and responsibilities will include:

• Lead delivery programmes in the creation of modern Finance Architectures and Technical Designs, collaborating with multi capability teams, senior business and IT stakeholders, and taking accountability for the quality and timely delivery of your team's deliverables.
• Lead and support clients in creating or providing perspective on their technology strategies, roadmaps, or delivery programmes; ensuring investment in the right technology and delivering in the right order; building effective client relationships with senior and peer-level stakeholders across all business and technical domains including IT and Operations.
• Perform a lead role in guiding the client throughout the project/programme lifecycle.
• Provide technical design governance, solution quality assurance and design reviews to keep complex technology programmes on track against industry good practice and standards.
• Lead the generation of thought leadership and continuous capability development of the architecture practice to ensure we stay at the cutting edge of the technology developments
• Strengthen our architecture capability by coaching junior team members and leading the definition and implementation of Deloitte accelerators and standards.
• Lead and contribute to business development work, bringing an entrepreneurial mindset, leading the development of our key propositions to market through pre-sales, bid preparation and client presentations.
• Help drive the continued growth of the Insurance practice including supporting the firm's commitment to creating a more diverse and inclusive culture.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Knowledge of Finance and Finance/Functional Architecture:

• Fluent in the interplay of end-to-end finance processes and policy - Record to Report, Projects, Fixed Assets, Intercompany, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Cash Management, Planning & Budgeting, Management and Statutory Reporting, process optimisation levers and how these are used to run and operate businesses.
• 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.

Prior experience across the majority of the following:

• 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 within Robotic Process Automation, Cloud based technologies and working with the Finance function would be beneficial.

Desirable Skills

• 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.
• 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.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect to your business - Consulting

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, and collaborative working. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest challenges around, join us. Together, we'll make an impact that matters.

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"What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte's clients include many of the world's largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of." - Dan, Consulting

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in one of our UK offices, with hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you'll attend your local office, virtual collaboration spaces and client sites, depending on the requirements of the role.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So, we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective, and personality. So, we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world- class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers.

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