Job Description

In this role you will work collaboratively with wider Finance teams and supporting the Group Financial Controller to create and manage the financial and data integrity of our various finance applications and ensuring adherence to the control framework through effective management in-line with the financial calendar. Ensure the creation of new processes and application changes are accurately monitored, presented, and facilitated through the relevant Governance framework.

What I need to do?

• Manage and maintain all Data Model hierarchies and supporting system functionalities to accurately support the production of key internal and external reports.
• Chairing the Data Model Advisory Board meeting and owning the process to facilitate updates to the data model and ensuring all controls and governance are followed.
• Support the completion of period end, yearend, latest view, and budget activities.
• Manage and develop a team.
• Be a positive, pro-active, and challenging business partner to Finance stakeholders and Tech, striving for shared success whilst holding them to account.
• Be clear on specific deadlines and sequencing and manage business partners, stakeholders, and leadership to deliver on-time.
• Ensure all processes and governance documentation is diligently maintained and communicated when required.
• Working with Finance Transformation work stream business leads to support and contribute the successfully delivery of sustainable change but also understand changing needs and manage expectations.
• Working with Financial Reporting to build a robust and efficient statutory reporting process that aligns with the Group’s Data Model.
• Following the governance around changes, to ensure there is a clear audit trail that is documented.
• Have a continuous mindset in improving processes and driving change in the most effective way presenting options to leadership and make a recommendation based on relative merits.
• Effectively priorities to ensure short and long-term success including effective dependency management of BAU activities and the dependencies on the Finance Transformation project pipeline.

Work effectively with 3rd parties

• Seek as much external advice, input, and guidance from 3rd parties as possible.
• Where third parties are engaged, be clear on their deliverables and manage them to successful delivery.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Understanding that success is about process and structural change, rather than just technology implementation.
• Work effectively across the whole Group to successfully embed process and accounting changes within acceptable timeframes
• Communicate relentlessly
• Be positive and resilient
• Use judgment to escalate as early as possible when appropriate.
• Be a positive and challenging member of the finance Systems Team and share in its success and leadership.
• Have a continuous Improvement mindset
• A good understanding of transaction processing and accounting across the group
• What the various data sources are which feed our existing sub-ledgers and accounting tool
• Understanding of chart of accounts hierarchies and how its supports internal and external reporting requirements.
• A good understanding of the control requirements for a high-volume transaction processing environment
• An understanding of what successful application management looks like in other businesses.
• An understanding of the benefits of software as a service technology
• Knowledge of the Tech operating model.