Interim Finance Transformation Analyst
Posted 7 days ago by 1771498917
£600 Per day
Outside
Undetermined
London
Summary: The role of Interim Finance Transformation Analyst involves providing senior-level financial modelling and commercial insight for a significant Corporate Services Transformation Programme in Higher Education. The position is focused on supporting strategic decision-making, particularly in outsourcing and operating model evaluation. The successful candidate will be instrumental in developing evidence-based financial cases for governance decisions. This is a 6-month contract with a competitive daily rate.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop cost-benefit analyses comparing in-house, hybrid and outsourced delivery models
- Build detailed financial scenarios, including ROI, NPV, payback and Total Cost of Ownership models
- Establish and validate current cost baselines across in-scope services
- Design financial inputs for PQQ and RFP documentation, including pricing templates
- Evaluate supplier financial proposals, identifying assumptions, risks and long-term implications
- Model transition, mobilisation and exit costs across full contract lifecycles
- Conduct sensitivity and stress testing across pricing and volume assumptions
- Support pricing mechanism design (FTE-based, transaction-based, outcome-based models)
- Benchmark supplier pricing and assess financial risk exposure
- Produce clear, executive-level financial summaries for governance forums
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience supporting large transformation, outsourcing or procurement programmes
- Advanced financial modelling capability
- Experience designing and evaluating financial components of PQQ/RFP processes
- Strong ability to interrogate and challenge supplier pricing structures
- Confident stakeholder engagement at senior leadership level
- Experience within complex public-sector or regulated environments
- Exposure to shared services, managed services or large-scale outsourcing
- Familiarity with transition and mobilisation cost modelling
- Excellent written and presentation skills
Salary (Rate): £600 per day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Finance
Interim Finance Transformation Analyst
Corporate Services Transformation Programme – Higher Education
6-Month Contract
£550-600 per day Outside IR35
A major transformation programme is seeking an experienced Finance Transformation Analyst to provide senior-level financial modelling and commercial insight across a large-scale Corporate Services Transformation initiative.
This is a high-impact role supporting strategic decision-making, with particular focus on outsourcing and operating model evaluation. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping robust, evidence-based financial cases to support governance and steering committee decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop cost-benefit analyses comparing in-house, hybrid and outsourced delivery models
- Build detailed financial scenarios, including ROI, NPV, payback and Total Cost of Ownership models
- Establish and validate current cost baselines across in-scope services
- Design financial inputs for PQQ and RFP documentation, including pricing templates
- Evaluate supplier financial proposals, identifying assumptions, risks and long-term implications
- Model transition, mobilisation and exit costs across full contract lifecycles
- Conduct sensitivity and stress testing across pricing and volume assumptions
- Support pricing mechanism design (FTE-based, transaction-based, outcome-based models)
- Benchmark supplier pricing and assess financial risk exposure
- Produce clear, executive-level financial summaries for governance forums
Essential Experience
- Extensive experience supporting large transformation, outsourcing or procurement programmes
- Advanced financial modelling capability
- Experience designing and evaluating financial components of PQQ/RFP processes
- Strong ability to interrogate and challenge supplier pricing structures
- Confident stakeholder engagement at senior leadership level
- Experience within complex public-sector or regulated environments
- Exposure to shared services, managed services or large-scale outsourcing
- Familiarity with transition and mobilisation cost modelling
- Excellent written and presentation skills
This is an opportunity to contribute to a strategically significant transformation programme, providing critical financial insight that will shape long-term operating model decisions.
