Description
Financial Control Transformation Lead
About People’s Partnership:
At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future-saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone's a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We're a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.
What you'll be doing:
In recent years, People’s Partnership has embarked on an ambitious and exciting growth strategy which has led to a significant transformation of the business. This role will be critical in ensuring Finance is transforming alongside the business. The role holder will lead the transformation of core financial reporting and accounting processes within the Financial Control team and design and deliver a multi-year roadmap for Financial Control transformation aligned with strategic business goals.
This role will modernise and enhance the management accounts MI, reporting structures and accounting policies. Improving accuracy, insight and efficiency within the Financial Control team and ensuring readiness for further growth and change will also be key requirements of the role.
In addition, the role holder will be expected to represent the plans and priorities of the Financial Controller and may deputise in appropriate meetings. They will also be critical to the running of important cross division Finance projects, having a wider view than just the Financial Control department to ensure plans and activities consider upstream and downstream impacts.
●Lead Financial Control change and transformation activity
●Redesign the monthly management accounts and internal reporting packs to improve clarity, consistency, and commercial insight.
●Owns the organisations’ accounting policies, ensuring they are current and aligned to evolving business need as well as applied correctly within the management accounts.
●Enhance financial close processes to reduce timelines and manual effort, while improving data quality and reporting accuracy.
●Collaborate with FP&A to align actuals, forecasts and reporting outputs, ensuring one version of the truth across Finance.
●Lead for the end-to-end implementation of a new P2P process and system, working closely with Procurement, Finance Operations and Change.
What we’re looking for:
●Qualified Accountant with strong experience in financial reporting, management accounting and process improvement.
●Experience in a regulated financial services environment.
●Demonstrated track record of leading finance change initiatives within Financial Control or core finance operations.
●Strong understanding of accounting standards and practical application of accounting policies.
●Ability to lead groups of people across different teams.
What you can expect from us:
●Generous pension contributions with an employer contribution of up to 14%
●Real living wage
●Income protection, critical illness cover & death in service insurance
●Employee healthcare
●Parental and adoption leave
●Learning & development opportunities and study support
●Travel season ticket loans
●Subsidised restaurant in our Crawley office
●Volunteering days and charity payroll giving
●Onsite gym
●Ride-to-Work scheme
●Social clubs and events
You can learn more about how we support our employees on our website
Disability Statement
People's Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People's Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best “you”. Perks Salary Range