Role purpose
Cloud Consulting has an urgent requirement for an experienced Finance Transformation Lead to work on a high-profile project for a leading company.
The role is a hybrid one with 1 or 2 days p/week in Leeds and the rest remote, and is inside of IR35.
The successful candidate will combine strong finance transformation expertise with hands on experience and insights on what other finance functions of financial services organisations are doing across the below service lines:
- Procurement & Supplier Management
- Cash & Payment Operations
- Reporting & Control
- Financial Insight & Planning
- Treasury & balance Sheet Management
- Credit Analytics
You will work with senior Finance Management, CFO as well as Technology and business stakeholders to design and implement more efficient, controlled and insight-led finance functions.
Key responsibilities
- Review Finance Transformation roadmaps
- Share insights from hands-on experience on what other financial services organisations are doing to achieve similar objectives, lessons learned and pre-empt potential issues based on previous experience
- Act as a critical friend to senior stakeholders, opening issues before they arise and tackling difficult conversations with sensitivity and empathy
- Contribute to workshops with industry perspectives
Experience and qualifications
Essential:
Significant experience delivering Finance Transformation programmes within Financial Services.
Experience working with banks, insurers, building societies, asset managers, payments firms or other regulated financial institutions.
Strong understanding of finance processes, operating models, controls, reporting and data.
Proven experience managing complex, multi-workstream transformation programmes.
Experience working across Finance, Risk, Operations, Technology and business functions.
Strong understanding of regulatory and control environments within Financial Services.
Experience with finance systems, reporting tools, data platforms or process automation.
Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
Strong analytical, problem-solving and delivery capabilities.
Desirable:
Professional finance qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
Experience with ERP, EPM or reporting platforms such as Databricks, Jade, Helix, SAP, Oracle, Workday, Anaplan, OneStream, Power BI or Tableau.
Consulting, advisory or experience leading enterprise-wide change programmes.
Key competencies
- Strategic thinking with strong commercial awareness
- Finance and operating model expertise
- Programme and delivery management
- Process improvement and transformation design
- Technology and data understanding
- Risk, controls and regulatory awareness
- Influencing and senior stakeholder management
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Collaborative leadership
- Resilience, ownership and a results-focused mindset