Manager Finance Change Delivery

Responsibilities include :

• Delivering of large- scale projects by managing the project team, assessing engagement risks, driving conclusions, and reviewing / challenging the output produced by the team
• Designing, developing and implementing strategic and operational initiatives
• Driving innovation by creating an environment that encourages innovation and being a leader in this area by implementing new and improved ways of working, delivery models and / or technological advancements
• Developing strong internal and external networks for long term relationships
• Establishing and managing effective working relationships with peer-level clients as part of project delivery roles
• Training, coaching, and supervising junior staff as well as monitoring staff availability, chargeability and supporting the development of less utilised staff
• Identifying new business opportunities
• Contributing to business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new / existing clients, and co-leading proposals and bid teams and managing the development and delivery of high-quality proposals with senior management
• Providing quality assurance and monitoring risks, managing assignment teams and third parties, liaising with service line teams, functional specialists and Area Partners

Education:

• A first level university degree, 2:1 (or equivalent) or above is desirable but not compulsory
• An accounting qualification (ACA, ACMA, ACCA) applied in a financial institution would be beneficial

Required skills

• Experience of working in a consulting role in financial services (Capital Markets, Banking, Insurance and/or Wealth and Asset Management), or a transformation role in industry, focusing on the Finance function
• Experience in leading delivery of large-scale Finance change programmes in Financial Services
• hands-on consulting experience at a Big 4, or top tier consulting firm within Financial Services, or
• A background in Finance, Risk / Regulation or Treasury
• Experience of designing and implementing Finance Operating Models and Finance Transformation, including location and service model strategy
• Accounting and regulatory change e.g. IFRS9, IFRS17, IBOR, ViR – supporting clients to understand and address complex change, and leading delivery of programmes / projects
• Financial Control – including internal and external statutory reporting
• Financial modelling, budgeting, business planning, forecasting and analysis
• Finance, Risk and Treasury integration, operating model design and implementation
• Front to back process, control and governance
• Balance sheet management and financial resource optimisation
• Cost reporting and management
• Finance Cost Reduction and Process Improvement
• Finance systems architecture and strategy delivery
• General Ledger, consolidation and EPM projects
• Regulatory, statutory and management reporting projects including COREP, FINREP
• Optimisation of financial resources – capital, liquidity, RWA, LBS etc.
• Use of related technology including SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, BPM tools, EPM systems, Treasury systems ERP systems, Robotic Technology, AI and Digital technologies, Cloud and Google based solutions, Hadoop and Big Data, Tableau, Biazagi and other visualisation tools.