Associate Director - Finance - Financial Management Group

About the role :

We have an excellent opportunity for a finance-technology professional to join Financial Management Group at a Director level. The successful candidate would have experience in successfully leading teams responsible for driving automation and technology change projects for global finance along with delivering on Run the Bank responsibilities for Finance Systems organisation

About Finance Operations Division :

The finance operations are Core to the Financial Management Group and is responsible to deliver an end to end accounting and finance services globally to the Group. In particular the functions within Fin. Ops have,

- Ownership of Finance Processes (are Global Process Owners)

- Finance Service delivery

- Own Continuous improvement / Operational Excellence

- Accountable to deliver Innovation / Automation

- Lead Transformation - finance data and technology

- Accounting Services - including Record to report; Product accounting production / analysis

- Compliance Services - including Reporting & Monitoring (e.g. Tax, Regulators)

- Reporting Services - including statutory, management, analyse and forecasting

- Risk management and Assurance over Fin Ops

- Ownership of process controls and reporting operational effectiveness to advisory / BU CFO

Key responsibilities:

This role is ultimately accountable to the Global Head of GFS and is expected to provide direct review / oversight / sign off for Finance Systems function within Finance Operations Division. Broadly this role will have the following responsibilities:

- Manage the RTB and CTB delivery for FMG Systems team at GFS

- Identify, engage and deliver on opportunities which help FMG with better data quality and System usage.

- Engage with FMG and GFS wide stakeholders to understand their requirements and provide solutions in partnership with technology.

- Deliver on system change projects through the lifecycle

- Manage the system blueprint / architecture working closely with the Technology function

- Work with internal change and technology organisation to drive implementation of enabling technologies e.g. RPA by identifying best fit automation solutions

- Work with function stakeholders to create and implement automation plans

About you -

- You are an experienced Fin-Tech professional with extensive exposure to Finance technology change management and its implementation.

- You have the ability to act as a role model to influence the behaviour of the wider high performing teams. Provide direction to people, projects and/or processes and create opportunities for others to develop and extend their skills and experience.

- With a flair of excellent interpersonal skills and a strong client orientation when planning and organising work.

To be successful in the role:

- University Degree or Master Degree in any discipline with technology qualifications

- Experience with finance technology upkeep and change delivery including process automation

- Experience of working in an International environment will be an added advantage.

Working Days : 5 Days a Week (to)

Job Nature : Full Time