Head of Finance - Process Improvement

Chilworth Partnership (also trading as Venture Recruitment Partners) are assisting a leading, international organisation who have gone through significant growth in recent years, in their search for a Head of Finance - Process Improvement

Reporting to the Finance Director, responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Lead site wide initiatives to ensure smooth running of the overall unit, giving stakeholders a consistent and co-ordinated delivery approach.
• Pull together and monitor site performance against its key metrics, providing insight into where adaptive decisions might need to be made.
• Implementation of clear SLAs that are adaptable as the business changes, with clear process for the business to go through when there are changes in scope.
• Work alongside Heads of Department in the identification and resolution of outstanding process and system challenges.
• Ensure the training requirements associated with all forms of change are assessed and delivered against to ensure local team members understand the change.
• Manage overall relationship between site and internal stakeholders; ensuring appropriate communications strategy and providing appropriate reporting.
• Lead local reporting & systems optimisation; ensuring robustness of current reporting and systems usage, but also expanding these capabilities.
• Co-ordinate a strong financial controls framework within the department.
• Drive continuous improvement agenda including reviewing robotics approach.
• Lead, motivate and develop a team of five.

You will:

• Be fully qualified (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• Have strong knowledge and understanding of Finance processes.
• Have experience of leading and developing teams.
• Understand change management methodologies.
• Have a background in complex, internationally operating businesses. 
• Have experience with complex financial systems and data structures.
• Be a proactive individual with the ability to both operate strategically and tactically and able to effectively manage multiple challenges whilst maintaining high quality throughout.
• Act as a key member of organisations leadership community, role model company behaviours and contributes to the achievement of the wider business strategy.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an organisation who are renowned for their career progression opportunities and there will be an expectation for this individual to step up to Director level in the next 18-24 months. The business have also implemented a long term hybrid working policy, with an expectation to be in the office three days a week. 

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