Manager, Finance Consulting (Value & Performance Management) in City of Westminster

Finance transformation and technology-enabled finance solutions professional sought to articulate and implement a vision for Finance, driving a compelling case for change using innovative global technology trends, leading practice and service innovation.

Responsibilities

• Articulate, design, and implement a vision for Finance and a compelling "case for change" that draws on innovative global technology trends, leading practice and service innovation.
• Discuss finance simplification and innovation enabled by digital technologies.
• Conduct accelerated finance diagnostics, maturity assessments, and benchmarking.
• Define client-relevant use of modern technology platforms showing their key functionalities, data models and technical requirements.
• Provide roadmaps of implementation and timelines (cost vs. benefits).
• Structure and run Finance transformation programmes using Agile design and delivery methods.
• Collect and socialise business and technical requirements for a technology-enabled Finance transformation.
• Architect and design technology-enabled Finance solutions.
• Drive end-to-end implementation services for emerging technologies.
• Deliver and manage the technical implementation of solutions.
• Adopt "digital" ways of working to increase flexibility and accelerate delivery.
• Plan, design, and execute design-led thinking and process re-engineering workshops.
• Process design grounded in customer outcomes and user experience, adopting LEAN methodologies and automation technologies.
• Structure and implement Agile delivery methods.
• Understand and support in the implementation of relevant technologies such as SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle, Hyperion, SAP BPC/SAC, S/4HANA, Anaplan, Tagetik, Board, and Microsoft Power BI.
• Support better performance management and insight from transactional ERP systems through to group-level oversight.
• Establish a consistent finance data model to enable clear, connected reporting.
• Design ERP solutions with insight and value in mind, ensuring data drives better business decisions.
• Integrated Business Planning: simplify and optimise financial planning across functions for more accurate forecasting and better-informed trade-offs.
• Connect planning across operations, finance, commercial, and HR to enable fully integrated decision-making.
• Improve visibility of key drivers to understand how operational inputs translate into financial outcomes.
• Transform FP&A to shift from manual reporting to value-driving insights and business performance partnering.
• Streamline planning and reporting processes through technology and process redesign.
• Design an FP&A operating model that enables greater agility and impact.
• Enable efficient, compliant, and automated group-level statutory reporting and consolidation.
• Systematise statutory group consolidation and support group reporting and input into disclosure management.
• Enable Finance analytics and performance management through established processes, technologies, data, and skills.
• Embed analytics into performance management routines to drive accountability and decision-making.
• Leverage AI and emerging technologies to drive automation, predictive insights, and transformation across the finance function.
• Share knowledge of AI capabilities and evaluate value case and benefits of deploying AI technologies.
• Collaborate with clients to understand critical business problems and priorities, evaluating and delivering solution options that leverage cutting-edge technologies.
• Motivate and manage high-performing diverse teams, aligning with values and delivering exceptional client service.

Qualifications

• Experience designing solutions for complex multi-national organisations.
• Multiple lifecycle implementations of EPM or finance analytics.
• Proficiency in a chosen market or sector.
• Strong client relationship skills and proven stakeholder engagement.
• A keen interest in applying modern technologies to solve finance and cross-functional challenges.
• A valid and certified professional accounting qualification.
• Background in management consulting or experience leading large-scale VPM or EPM programmes.
• Ability to develop creative, technical solutions with high attention to detail.
• Strong facilitation, presentation, and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Experience line managing and coaching high-performing teams.
• Core consulting skills: client management, commercial thinking, problem solving, and facilitation.
• Technical hands-on delivery experience and subject-matter knowledge in finance transformation and performance improvement.
• Versatility to adapt quickly in a fast-changing, tech-enabled environment.
• Market/sector knowledge relevant to the field.

Note: This description reflects current responsibilities and may evolve with client and firm needs.