We have an exciting opportunity at our Waterside Head office for an experienced Head of Finance to join our Group Finance team.

The Head of Finance – SSC is responsible for leading the SSC Finance Team across both Financial Control and Commercial Finance for the shared service centre business costs, covering departments such as Finance, HR, IT, and centralised operations teams across multiple geographies.

• Develop and Lead and SSC Finance Team including Management Accounts and Commercial Finance

• Standardise and rationalise processes and ensure they are documented and satisfy the relevant financial control requirements

• Ensure the team prepare monthly managements accounts using the relevant SAP systems and perform associated balance sheet reconciliations. Ensuring cost centre and GL posting accuracy across departments and entities, improving visibility of spend

• Ensure the team prepare P&L visibility to department budget holders and hold regular meetings to discuss variance analysis and financial planning

• Highlight potential cost saving opportunities and work with relevant departments on modelling and business cases to support controlling business costs

• Feed into group consolidation of actuals, budget and forecast

• Oversee the purchase order process across departments with associated training, policy and approval matrix

• Support the Group Financial Controller with ad-hoc duties as required

• Continued development of finance staff

• Assist in continuous improvements in month end controls and improvement to a SOX level

• Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Technically strong
• Previous industry experience in a Group accounting function (desirable)
• Extensive experience in leadership & management
• Experience in compliance & audit management
• Ability to build strong stakeholder relationships
• Experience in process mapping & improvements
• Previous risk management experience
• Finance Systems Expertise