Head - Finance Strategy & Transformation - Consulting Firm

Finance Strategy & Transformation- Head

Accountability:

R2R processes within the Finance scope, the Finance Strategy & Transformation Senior Manager will:

- Define process standards for owned R2R processes in line with the Global Process Design Standards framework

- Leadership of the standardisation/digitisation agenda for assigned processes within Finance through development, deployment and compliance to global process design standards (GPDS).

- Support the Finance transformation agenda including supporting the development of process strategy for services within scope

- Responsible for helping to build and sustain functional/business specific relationships under the partner management framework.

- Support driving diversity and inclusion at all levels of the organisation as well as ensure fairness and transparency in ways of working.

- Accountable to support delivery of aspects of organisation capability and management within Finance.

- Developing the transformation roadmaps for the Finance function and delivery execution, project & change management (global strategic platforms implementations and digital change projects/programmes in all the regional centres).

- Leads the relationship and close collaboration with 's digital innovation & engineering organisation (), Operations verticals and business groups across to deliver the next generation enterprise solutions and top quartile performance.

- Drive the adoption of standardisation of end-to-end R2R processes, working closely with delivery centres and embedded teams. In doing do so, govern any variation to process standards and ongoing compliance.

- Recommend process improvement and system changes to enhance process standardisation, drive simplification, improve control and enable transparency of performance.

- Conduct impact assessment on legislative changes identified by operational entities which impact existing Global Process Design changes and develop plan to update all impacted standards ahead of the effective date of the change

- Support the broader network of R2R process experts and practitioners to ensure effective engagement and to aid in the effectiveness of governance forums. Foster learning and sharing of best practices, ensuring alignment with the end-to-end process objectives.

- Required to exercise, with care and due diligence, the unique delegations of authority assigned to finance services operated and owned by on behalf of group.

- Support the integrated governance model for global process management within Finance, engaging multiple partners and ensuring the right inputs are provided in support of our process standardisation and transformation agenda

- Support the design, development and deployment of the process strategy for Finance, bringing content expertise from both within and external to

- Collaborate with on key changes to the systems landscape at an ERP and non-ERP level as it pertains to the Finance Services portfolio as well as the transformation agenda.

- Ensure that global projects are completed in alignment with the global processes.

- Define the key KPIs and PPIs for the R2R processes and develop dashboards for the timely reporting of these. Monitor and intervene with the R2R process hubs where interventions are identified.

- Monitor compliance with the policies within the R2R scope, procedure and process controls embedded in the processes to ensure that the operational team are operating using standardised policy, processes and related controls.

- Provide assertion to the control teams that the standardised processes and associated controls have operated as designed and that any process deviations have not resulted in a control gap.

- Support the regular review of activities performed by delivery centres and embedded teams to ensure compliance to strategy

- As one of the main content experts for R2R global process design, provide process expertise and knowledge to stakeholder and practitioners as required.

- Identify internal and external process benchmarks and best-practices, including potential tactical automation solutions that could drive efficiencies.

- Identify requirements for global process performance dashboards that provide visibility to process performance and total cost to serve for agreed R2R processes and agree approach for development.

- Strong interpersonal, influencing skill and ability to manage significant change management conversation within and Business stakeholders to drive process standardisation.