At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the transformation of finance processes into a streamlined shared services model.
- Company: Join a major global organisation with a focus on innovation and efficiency.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working, pension, bonus opportunities, and private healthcare.
- Other info: Hybrid working just outside Glasgow with excellent career development opportunities.
- Why this job: Shape the future of finance operations and drive impactful change in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in finance process analysis and improvement, ideally in shared services or transformation.
The predicted salary is between 54761 - 70239 £ per year.
W&A is working with a major global organisation to recruit a Shared Services Finance Transformation Manager on a two-year fixed-term contract, based just outside Glasgow with hybrid working. This role will help shape the transition of transactional finance activity into a more standardised shared services model, with a focus on process improvement, service design and delivery.
The Opportunity
Working with the Head of Finance Shared Services, you will support the design and delivery of a future-focused shared services model across transactional finance. You will analyse where activity can be centralised, simplify end-to-end processes, define service expectations and help build the governance, measures and enabling tools needed for a consistent, efficient and well-controlled service.
Key Responsibilities
- Support design and delivery of the shared services transformation workstream, coordinating inputs, actions and stakeholder engagement.
- Help define scope, service catalogue content, operating principles and service expectations, clarifying responsibilities and hand-offs.
- Analyse finance activity to identify centralisation and simplification opportunities, applying LEAN or similar methods to remove non-value-added work.
- Support root cause analysis and continuous improvement to strengthen service quality, control effectiveness and cycle times.
- Develop practical service management outputs, including SLA approaches, KPIs, reporting requirements and governance measures.
- Document key end-to-end transactional finance processes and ensure service, process and control implications are reflected in future designs.
- Coordinate delivery through detailed design, execution, go-live and business-as-usual handover.
- Track risks, issues and dependencies across finance process teams, controls and ERP-enabled transformation activity.
- Support requirements and readiness for workflow, case-management and other enabling tools needed by the future shared services model.
- Prepare clear governance materials, updates and communications to support decisions and change activity.
About You
- Experience in business process analysis, process improvement and workstream delivery within Finance, Shared Services or a transformation environment.
- Practical process improvement expertise, with experience of LEAN or similar methods for standardisation, root cause analysis and cycle-time improvement.
- Strong finance transformation and project or programme delivery experience, ideally in a complex change environment.
- Good understanding of shared services principles, service management and governance measures such as SLAs and KPIs.
- Strong analytical, documentation and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn insight into clear and usable outputs.
- Well-developed planning, organisation, stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Confidence using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving programme.
Package & Benefits
- Salary: £54,761 - £70,239.
- Two-year fixed-term contract.
- Broader benefits include pension, bonus opportunity, flexible working and private healthcare.
- Location: just outside Glasgow, with hybrid working.
Why Apply
- Help shape a shared services model from design through to transition and embedding.
- Combine finance process improvement with service management, governance and technology-enabled change.
- Gain broad exposure across transactional finance and a major transformation programme.
- Join an international premium consumer business investing in more consistent and scalable finance operations.
To learn more or apply, please contact Andrea Green or Ross McQuarrie for a private and confidential discussion. Alternatively, submit your CV and we'll be in touch.
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