Your newpany
Hays is currently working in partnership with a well-established organisation who offer a diverse range of services to their clients. Thispany has gone through a period of transition and a recent systems implementation across multiple business units, and is now looking to improve the functionality across the business. This is a newly created role that will have autonomy over the improvement and delivery of systems and processes across the finance function.
Your new role
Reporting directly to the CFO, you will be responsible for analysing, improving, and redesigning business processes with a strong focus on financial integrity, control, and efficiency. This role will be key to driving finance transformation, ensuring robusternance, and aligning processes with strategic and financial objectives. Specifically, you will be responsible for:
1. Analysing existing business processes across finance and operations, documenting areas of improvement and financial impact
2. Mapping the existing workflows and identifying areas of inefficiency, control gaps and risk
3. Designing improved processes with strong financial controls embedded
4. Drive automation and standardisation of processes across transactional finances
5. Improve reporting accuracy, month-end reporting cycles and working capital processes
6. Ensure all processesply with necessary accounting standards
7. Strengthen internal controls and audit readiness in conjunction with internal and external auditors
8. Act as a Business Partner to Finance, Operations, IT and other senior leadership
9. Translate finance and business needs into process and system solutions
10. Support with development and training on new processes and tools
11. Work with the MIS team to develop reporting dashboards to help monitor performance
12. Help define KPI's related to efficiency, cost and financial accuracy
This is a full-time role, working 37 hours per week, between Monday and Friday. The exact working pattern can be flexible depending on the individual, but the role will be based on site full-time.
What you'll need to succeed
You will:
13. Be a fully qualified accountant
14. Have strong technical understanding of reporting, controls and reconciliations
15. Have experience of improving financial processes and/or systems
16. Have experience using ERP systems and ideally have advanced Excel and PowerBI skills
17. Possess excellentmunication skills to articulateplex financial solutions to stakeholders
18. Have a keen eye for detail and be able to present clear process documentation
19. Have strong problem-solving skills
What you'll get in return
You will receive apetitive salary and benefits package including 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), enhanced pension, parental and sickness leave.