Head of Finance Integration and Change

1 month ago

North West, United Kingdom The Ardonagh Group Full time

**Head of Finance Integration and Change - Yorkshire, North West ideally but rest of UK considered - ARDPN846169**

**Whilst this is a home based opportunity, ideally we are looking for someone in the Yorkshire area as there will be meetings in the Knaresborough and Leeds offices perhaps every fortnight. If you are further afield but happy to travel to the area as required, do not hesitate to apply.**

**Purpose of the Role**

This exciting home based opportunity has arisen to join our Financial Accounting team. This role will play a key part in delivering the finance integration of acquired businesses and other finance projects.

**What you will do**

This is an overview and not an exhaustive list of responsibilities. Collaborating with your Line Manager, you will develop your own objectives but focus on all of the following and more.
- Responsible for delivering the change agenda for Finance.
- Prioritising change activity within the department and ensure resources are managed effectively and efficiently to deliver the change portfolio.
- Co-ordinate all finance integration projects.
- Accountable for the finance integration service delivery model, to align financial controls and finance reporting with standard policy, process and procedures.
- Collaborate with the M&A Team, Payroll, Treasury and Finance teams to ensure smooth integration.
- Coordinate pre-and post-acquisition finance activity to ensure smooth financial integration of newly acquired businesses.
- Provide a single point of communication to the wider Finance Team on financial integration activity.
- Deliver the necessary processes and controls to onboard acquisitions into the business-as-usual environment.
- Build strategic relationships with stakeholders and teams across Ardonagh.
- Manage and motivate your team to drive a high performance culture where colleagues feel highly motivated, valued and continuously developed in role.
- Fulfil your responsibilities in line with agreed processes to achieve agreed objectives, and in doing so, ensure compliance with the client and insurer money rules within the FCA Handbook.

**Who we are looking for**

This is an opportunity for a talented, dynamic individual with significant hands-on experience leading change, finance integration and working in a financial control environment. We are looking for someone has:

- The ability to build strong working relationships with key stakeholders within finance and the wider business
- Excellent organisational, planning and communication skills
- Influential, can deliver workable solutions to problems and gain buy in from stakeholders to implement change
- Leadership skills, working with a multi-discipline team, managing and training
- Initiative, proactivity, resourcefulness, attention to detail and can embrace change positively
- Strength to work under pressure and learn and work with new processes and systems
- Analytical, flexible, assertive and quick to learn.

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or equivalent or QBE
- MS Excel to an advanced level
- Experience of integration or compiling financial reports from incomplete records
- Broad range of general accounting functions including business and financial reporting; a good understanding of insurance broking and systems would also be beneficial

In return you will be welcomed and supported by our Ardonagh family and be joining an organisation that cares about you as a person and your wellbeing. Some of the other benefits are:

- Holiday entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays
- Opportunity to progress your career across the entire Ardonagh family
- Pensions scheme for when you feel it’s time to retire
- 24-hour support for physical and mental wellbeing
- 1 days paid volunteering day to give back to our communities
- The Spotlight Awards, where we shine a light on the brightest talent across our group

Why not check us out on LinkedIn to find out what life’s really like at Ardonagh.

The Ardonagh Group is one of the UK’s largest independent brokers with over 9000 dedicated and passionate professionals across the country, and worldwide, facing and dealing with our clients’ challenges, offering an enviable range of products, services and solutions to their clients. We are progressive, passionate and proud of the work we do, across all sectors of the business. Therefore, we need highly capable people to join our team to make this a reality

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