Rutherford Cross is delighted to be working with an exceptional employer with an excellent record for providing career development opportunities, to appoint a Finance Transformation Specialist. The business has been growing significantly in recent years, and this is a newly created role.

The purpose of the role is to simplify, standardise and make better use of technology when sharing financial data between the central finance function, regional finance teams and outsourced business processers. The aim is to improve financial reporting and quality of MI to support key decision-making.

The key stakeholders you will partner with are:

• Global Process Owners
• Continuous Improvement Team
• Central Finance
• BPO Provider
• Regional Finance Teams

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Global Process Owner with implementation of the process vision including process design, policy development, technology enablement, functional requirements, and global implementation support
• Working alongside the outsourced team and Regional Finance teams to identify pragmatic solutions to identified challenges, leading on design, documentation and implementation of changes
• Undertaking change management activity required to successfully embed process, people and system changes which arise from delivery of the Finance Roadmap
• Taking ownership for the record to report standard operating procedures, managing governance around changes, working closely with the outsourced team and ensuring appropriate communication of all changes

Education / Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of work experience
• Six Sigma/Lean Qualification (preferable, not required)

Professional Skills / Experience:

• Experience in finance process transformation, record to report and /or FP&A roles
• Project Management expertise (preferred)
• Strong track record, of revamping, re-designing and embedding Record to Report processes with a view of best-in-class design
• Good understanding of finance master-data and applicable business systems
• Experience of change projects, including understanding of resource management, budgeting, communications, and governance
• Good Stakeholder management, communication and relationship building skills
• Comfortable working in a global business environment that is undergoing structural, process and technology changes
• Highly organised, both task and action based with a logical process base to work
• Embraces a strong cultural sensitivity and awareness that different business processes and requirements exist and will require harmonisation
• Must be flexible and willing to work as a team to cultivate change and process improvements

Package and Remuneration:

• A competitive salary
• Exceptional bonus
• Pension plan and Life Assurance
• Hybrid working
• Generous holiday entitlement, with option to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’
• A focus on continued personal development

Our client is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.