Finance Process Consultant
Posted 1 day ago by SR2 - Socially Responsible Recruitment
£650 Per day
Outside
Remote
City of London, UK
Summary: The Finance Process Consultant role involves supporting a major finance transformation programme aimed at enhancing processes, reporting, forecasting, controls, and financial data management. The position requires strong relationship-building skills to influence stakeholders and facilitate understanding of finance transformation benefits. The consultant will work closely with programme leadership and finance stakeholders to analyze, design, test, and implement improved finance processes. This is a remote-first position with occasional travel to London, requiring an ASAP start for an initial 6-month contract.
Key Responsibilities:
- Capture, document and validate finance business requirements
- Analyse current finance processes, controls, pain points and data challenges
- Map current and future-state finance processes
- Support the design of improved finance processes and system solutions
- Engage Finance and wider business stakeholders to build understanding and buy-in
- Help manage resistance, competing priorities and difficult stakeholder conversations
- Support testing, implementation planning and business readiness activities
- Contribute across analysis, design, build, test and implementation phases
Key Skills:
- Finance transformation, finance improvement or finance process change experience
- Strong business analysis, requirements gathering and process mapping capability
- Experience across finance reporting, forecasting, journals, controls or financial data
- Confidence working with Finance stakeholders at different levels
- Demonstratable track record influencing non-Finance stakeholders and achieving external buy-in on the value of finance-led change
- Experience supporting testing, implementation and adoption of new processes
- SAP or ERP exposure would be beneficial
- Experience working in complex, challenging or change-resistant environments
Salary (Rate): £650 per day
City: City of London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
£550-£650 per day | Outside IR35
6-month initial contract | ASAP start
Remote-first with occasional London travel
We are recruiting a Finance Process Consultant to support a major finance transformation programme focused on improving processes, reporting, forecasting, controls and financial data management.
This role requires more than process analysis. You will need to build strong relationships across Finance and the wider business, influence stakeholders who may be resistant to change, and help teams understand the practical benefits of finance transformation decisions.
Working closely with programme leadership and Finance stakeholders, you will support the analysis, design, testing and implementation of improved finance processes across multiple workstreams.
Responsibilities
- Capture, document and validate finance business requirements
- Analyse current finance processes, controls, pain points and data challenges
- Map current and future-state finance processes
- Support the design of improved finance processes and system solutions
- Engage Finance and wider business stakeholders to build understanding and buy-in
- Help manage resistance, competing priorities and difficult stakeholder conversations
- Support testing, implementation planning and business readiness activities
- Contribute across analysis, design, build, test and implementation phases
Experience
- Finance transformation, finance improvement or finance process change experience
- Strong business analysis, requirements gathering and process mapping capability
- Experience across finance reporting, forecasting, journals, controls or financial data
- Confidence working with Finance stakeholders at different levels
- Demonstratable track record influencing non-Finance stakeholders and achieving external buy-in on the value of finance-led change
- Experience supporting testing, implementation and adoption of new processes
- SAP or ERP exposure would be beneficial
- Experience working in complex, challenging or change-resistant environments