Head of Finance

2 weeks ago

Stevenage, United Kingdom M Group Services Full time

We are looking to offer a **Head of Fina**nce - IT** the opportunity to join our expanding Group IT Team based in Stevenage but offering hybrid working.**
As a **Head of Finance - IT **you will be a part of our commitment to deliver what we promise for our clients, within the leading essential infrastructure services provider operating within the UK & Ireland.

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**About M Group Services and your team**

M Group Services is a trusted employer to more than 10,500 people in the UK and Ireland. Operating across 21 businesses in 240 locations, we provide specialist infrastructure services in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors.

We work in a fast-paced environment and our business is constantly growing and evolving. Our central support team, based at Head Office, has grown rapidly and provides support across our Group divisions. To deliver to our people, our clients and their customers.

As a Group we recognise that engaging and empowering our people to deliver and grow is pivotal to driving our business and achieving continued success. We are committed to creating an environment in which our people feel valued, supported and fulfilled.

We offer a flexible working environment where hybrid working has been embedded.

As the Head of Finance - IT you will be part of our Group IT department. Who are responsible for the provision of IT services and solutions across the whole Group. There will be a dotted line reporting to the Group Finance Department.

**Who you are?**

As the Head of Finance - IT you will manage and support all financial aspects of the IT services provisioned or overseen by Group IT. This includes internal services, managed services and individual supplier agreements ensuring that value for money is delivered.

You will be key in driving the success and direction of IT investment. Responsible for partnering key operational stakeholders to influence decision-making through reporting, analysis and financial modelling.

Also, work closely with Finance and IT colleagues on operational expenditure across various IT services and projects. Ensuring robust accounting practice and driving insightful reporting and analysis.

**As the Head of Finance - IT, you’ll get the opportunity to**:

- Strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting for the Group’s IT budget
- Manage the IT budget allocations across all divisions and liaise with Divisional and Group Finance and relevant stakeholders at Divisional and Group level
- Monthly IT Budget reviews, including generation of base data for input into the Annual Budget process
- Month end reporting and analysis, providing insightful analysis of month end performance, identifying key variances, underlying causes, risks and opportunities to key stakeholders
- Lead analysis of IT costs and recharges across the Group, manage key relationships within the Divisional teams and proactively identify and deliver best practice process improvements
- Analyse financial data, monitor expenditure, forecast spend, ensuring accuracy of financial information and ensure costs are correctly classified
- Finance management to support major change programmes.
- Monitor and review project spend, providing commercial tracking of large projects.
- Effectively monitor and manage the SLAs and KPIs to measure service performance.
- Manage resources to ensure good practice is adopted and ensure that employees personally develop and are motivated.

**What you’ll bring?**
- Qualified Accountant with relevant post qualification experience
- Committed team player with a proven ability to hit deadlines, in a fast-paced environment
- Strong commercial acumen to support delivery of business & Group functions goals
- Strong focus on controls, processes, and continuous improvement
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships and to use these relationships to get results
- Ability to challenge senior stakeholders and operate with impact and influence
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience of using Oracle, Advanced Excel and Power BI would be advantageous but not essential
- Demonstrable track record of owning and driving areas of responsibility

**What’s in it for you?**
- 25 days' annual leave plus statutory holidays
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Contributory Pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to a wide range of discounts and special offers through our online rewards platform
- Private health care
- Company car/car allowance and fuel card

**Our Vision and Values**

Our vision is to be the leading service provider for essential infrastructure in the UK and Ireland.

The core values for our sustainable growth are:
People - engaging and empowering everyone to deliver and grow.
Safety - putting health, wellbeing and safety of people first.
Delivery - helping deliver our clients’ business needs.
Integrity - behaving respe

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