Finance Transformation Lead
2 weeks ago
We’re First Central Insurance & Technology Group (First Central for short), an award-winning innovative insurance and technology organisation, delivering market-leading motor insurance, underwriting, distribution, finance, technology and legal services.
Our finance team need a result driven, agile and logical thinking Finance Change Lead , who knows a thing or two about finance systems and change. Ideally, you’ll have been involved in system implementation and post go-live support, if it's with Workday–Finance, all the better
Supporting the Finance Change Manager, you’ll be the go to and lead on administration, maintenance and the day to day running of the core Workday financials application. You’ll also lead on change management initiatives including project management and business analysis support. We love hybrid working, so you'll spend most of your time working from home, with a day a week in the office (so living close to Haywards Heath, West Sussex would be a perfect match). But of course, it’s your choice - if you prefer to be in the office more - that's good with us too. We're also open to applicants that live a commutable drive to Salford Quays, Manchester or live in Guernsey or Gibraltar.
You’re qualified by experience or part/fully qualified Accountant, holding AAT, CIMA, ACCA
Communicating, challenging and influencing senior management is your strength
Agile development, report writing and Lean or Six Sigma frameworks are in your toolkit
Together with the Finance Change Manager and Group Finance Systems Manager responsible for the execution of finance systems change ensuring it continually adapts to complement the Groups operating model:
Assure the quality of development & testing, sing, off Live testing requirements and confirm go/no go to deploy the release into production.
Post release – ensure all warranty defects are resolved, and ongoing production monitoring & continuous improvement are in place.
Lead, design, test and implement technical system changes to deliver ongoing continuous improvements to Finance
Lead the gathering and documentation of change requests, and requirements from the wider Finance function liaising with SMEs to assist with prioritisation and design of configuration changes.
Assist with the management and delivery of Finance transformation projects with the help of 3rd party support and key stakeholders
Responsible for key administration changes within Workday, ensuring key system control and integrity is maintained and protected.
Assist in the design and production of Workday reports, Business Processes, and Integrations
Manage and lead finance system updates and maintenance development work across all finance systems
Challenging current practices, actively seeking to improve processes, whilst managing risk
Comply with the requirements, and act in accordance with, the Group Code of Conduct and Fitness and Propriety policies at all times
Ensure compliance with Company Policies, Values and guidelines and other relevant standards/ regulations at all times
Delivering coaching and feedback to direct report to achieve KPI’s and SLAs, and conducting regular performance reviews, including probationary reviews and annual appraisals as necessary.
Deal with colleague issues including monitoring absence.
Experience in an accounting/finance function
Experience as a finance system administrator and / or finance change role
Experience with ERP, General Ledger or P2P systems
Experience of financial systems (Workday Financials – desirable)
Experience of system implementations and post go-live support models.
Proficient in Microsoft applications, especially Excel
Strong analytical skills and ability to drive process improvement, based upon analysis of data
Knowledge of Agile development approaches
Qualified by experience or part qualified accountant (AAT, CIMA, ACCA)
Report writing across a number of systems
An agile approach to project management and able to rapidly react to changes in business priorities to take advantage of emerging business and customer opportunities
Fantastic training and development opportunities
Employee benefit packages to suit your lifestyle
YOUday – we give you an extra day off to celebrate a special day
A health cash plan
Help with travel expenses
The opportunity to buy additional holiday
Company pension scheme
Group life assurance
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
We provide discounted membership at a local health club and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, which promotes physical and emotional wellbeing at work and at home. We’re happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process.
As part of our Women in Finance Charter pledge, we've committed to having 30% of women in leadership roles by the end of 2023.
Simply Health Cash plan. Reclaim the cost of your eye tests, dental, physiotherapy and more
Flexible Bank Holidays
Eight flexible bank holidays; Electric Car Scheme
Plug into our Electric Car Scheme for a deal with insurance, road tax and servicing
Flexible Working
We’re flexible; most roles let you mix office and home working.
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