Head of Finance Systems & Data in Chesham

Halma plc is a FTSE 50 listed company on the London Stock Exchange with an approximate market capitalisation of £15bn plus (May 2026). Building on its heritage as a manufacturer of intelligent sensors and products, it is a market leader in providing solutions and technology that deliver on its purpose of growing a safer, cleaner, healthier future for everyone, every day. Halma operates around 50 businesses across three sectors - Healthcare, Environmental & Analysis and Safety - and supplies customers in 160 countries from more than 20 global locations. The company has more than 8,500 employees worldwide and has recorded twenty two successive years of record revenues and profits, with a revenue of approximately £2.2bn and a profit of £0.5bn. Halma's strategy is to acquire and grow businesses in global niche markets, focusing on safety, health and environment. Growth is driven organically through core operations and M&A, as well as through innovation and digital business models. The company measures success against challenging targets, rewards performance, and supports its businesses with Growth Enablers to accelerate strategy delivery.

The Role: In its decentralised operating model, Halma's operating companies (OpCos) each manage their own local ERP systems but submit monthly actuals and forecasts into the global consolidation and reporting system, CCH Tagetik. The Group Finance function also uses Anaplan for Overheads Reporting, Kyriba for Treasury Operations, RiskHub for Risk Management and Concur for Expense Management. The Head of Finance Systems and Data will maximise the value derived from finance systems by acting as a bridge between business users and technology teams. The role will drive continuous improvement in the short term and build alignment to the mid term vision and roadmap for finance systems, ensuring architecture supports current business requirements, growth, regulatory compliance and decision making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Owner for the critical finance consolidation system (Tagetik) and other finance systems (Sage, Anaplan, Concur, Kyriba and RiskHub) in service of the Halma companies and functional SMEs in the Group/Sector.
• Accountable for configuration, ongoing management and updates to Halma's finance systems.
• Optimise finance systems and processes to enable predictable, compliant, controlled and efficient outputs on time with minimum errors, delays and manual effort.
• Lead cross functional teams that include finance, technology and third party vendors to determine root causes, troubleshoot and resolve defects in finance systems in accordance with internal service level agreements.
• Identify knowledge gaps through observation, monitoring system usage, case management ticket analysis, and regular conversations with key stakeholders; propose specific training based on findings.
• Define and prioritise finance process improvements, blueprint and roadmap in partnership with the technology and business teams, ensuring clear alignment between business priorities, technology delivery and cost to implement versus added value at stake; act as a single point of contact for all business demand.
• Influence stakeholders and drive clarity in the execution of the finance systems roadmap, ensuring successful and consistent rollout of business deliverables across the group.
• In partnership with the Technology team, monitor and input into the performance management and course correction of finance system vendors and AMS partners.
• Build and lead a Finance Systems team with capability across systems, data and finance process excellence and a culture of discipline and continuous improvement.

Personal Characteristics:

• Strong business partnering skills, putting the needs of the organisation above all else.
• Strong presentation and communication skills, and a knack for making the complex simple when explaining technical concepts.
• Highly dependable, organised, reliable and proactive.
• Operates with a sense of urgency and commitment to deadlines.
• Able to set up team routines and disciplines to ensure consistent timely delivery in line with user expectations.
• Realistic, straightforward problem solver and practical thinker.
• Analyses opportunities and prioritises them.
• Ability to influence across organisational levels.
• Understands finance processes and stakeholder priorities.
• Experience in developing, implementing and using operating systems/technology for financial reporting and insights.
• Able to understand and connect the dots between different financial statements (P&L, B/S, CF) and periods; identifies potential knock on impacts and communicates implications of changes to non financial stakeholders.
• Proven leader in identifying, coaching, training and developing diverse talent.
• Passion for continuous improvement in service of growing system users' satisfaction.
• Entrepreneurial in nature with a strong drive to succeed.

The Team:

• Reports to: Director of Finance, Performance and Insights.
• Direct Reports: Finance Systems Manager, Reporting and Data Specialist and Finance Systems Analyst.