At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead finance transformation, driving innovative processes and leveraging technology for efficiency.
- Company: Join a leading FTSE-listed services group with a focus on transformation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus, flexible hybrid working, and comprehensive benefits.
- Other info: Flexible contract options available, with excellent career growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a significant impact by reinventing finance processes and utilising cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in finance transformation within complex, regulated environments.
The predicted salary is between 190000 - 190000 £ per year.
Are you a finance transformation leader who looks beyond traditional offshoring and simple headcount reduction? We are exclusively working with our client to secure a visionary, delivery-focused Finance Transformation Director for a leading, highly regulated FTSE-listed services group. Reporting directly to the Group Finance Director, this is a high-profile mandate to shift a 300-strong finance function away from tactical cost-cutting and drive fundamental, technology-enabled process reinvention.
The Strategic Mission:
- End-to-End Process Reinvention: Move past traditional, purely outsourced "lift and shift" models. You will challenge whether specific tasks should be performed at all, and identify the most modern, digitally enabled ways of delivering those that remain.
- Agentification and AI: Redesign horizontal process ownership, leveraging intelligent automation, machine learning, and autonomous agentic workflows to eliminate manual activities and build a high-value onshore Centre of Excellence.
- Sweating the Systems Assets: Maximise value from a newly live, large-scale enterprise ERP platform to resolve a lack of standard management reporting and establish robust, clean data flows.
- Financial Impact: Drive a cost reduction within the group finance function, equivalent to a target of approximately £xx million, directly supporting the broader corporate long-term vision.
The Ideal Profile:
- A pragmatic leader with transformation experience in a complex, FTSE-scale, or highly regulated corporate environment.
- A proven track record of taking an organisation from low systems and data maturity to high capability, as experience in highly mature, digitally clean environments is less relevant here.
- A decisive professional who is comfortable holding challenging conversations and driving pace while maintaining psychological safety.
Flexible Engagement Models: To secure the right catalyst, our client is highly flexible regarding the contract structure:
- Fixed-Term Contract: 12 months. £170,000 - £190,000 per annum base salary + bonus + benefits.
- Day-Rate Interim: Inside IR35. Rate open to discussion.
Location: Home Counties & Central London based (flexible hybrid working). If you are a collaborative, credible leader who brings positive energy and knows how to turn a qualitative vision into a sequenced, horizontal roadmap, we want to hear from you.
Finance Transformation Director employer: Practicus
As a leading organisation in the space sector, we pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic work culture that encourages innovation and collaboration. Our employees benefit from a supportive environment that prioritises professional growth, offering unique opportunities to work on cutting-edge projects in Manchester, Stevenage, or Harwell. With a focus on quality and reliability, we empower our software engineers to make significant contributions to advanced space systems while enjoying a balanced work-life with a four-day on-site schedule.
