L&D Finance Specialist

Location: Windsor/Hybrid

Duration: 12 months initially

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The role:

This L&D specialist role will be dedicated to supporting Group Finance, as they continue a significant finance transformation project. Support the Head of L&D Business Partnering by proactively working with Group Finance to identify and support Finance L&D needs. Own finance learning requests and L&D projects from start to finish, recommending high quality, commercially minded solutions to drive tangible outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Head of L&D Business Partnering by owning and investigating all learning requests and projects required to support the finance transformation.
• Ensure that finance learning needs/requests are aligned to strategic priorities. If not, manage the relevant stakeholders to close the learning request by taking ownership.
• Maintain and enhance the learning behind the finance capability frameworks, working with the wider Talent and Organisational Capability team to define capabilities and roles of the future, and the learning needed to support these.
• Work with finance stakeholders to make creative, commercially sound recommendations to meet learning needs, maximising usage of our internal offering and leveraging knowledge of colleagues & wider business context.
• Effectively brief and work with L&D Solution Leads to identify suitable external learning providers where an internal solution is not available.
• Proactively research best in class learning solutions, based on industry benchmarks, and bring this knowledge into discussions.
• Proactively assess and build on the current learning available to qualified finance professionals, ensuring that there is a quality offering to meet annual CPD requirements.

Requirements:

• Must have supported a Finance Function within a large corporation from an L&D perspective - confident and articulate in finance processes, roles, CPD requirements etc.
• Must have experience in obtaining CPD accreditation with the big accounting institutes (eg CIMA, ICAEW, ACCA).
• 3 years in a L&D role in a corporate setting.
• Previous role(s) must have involved providing finance focused L&D support and advice to internal stakeholders.
• Finance background/qualifications desirable.
• Stakeholder management: Working with key business stakeholders to make creative, commercially sound recommendations.
• Project management: Be able to juggle multiple priorities and project manage interventions from start to finish.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.

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