Head of Finance Change Management

This role exists within the EMEA Finance team, specifically to lead the Finance Change Management team, with responsibility to drive change across Finance forward with the aim to automate processes, increase efficiency, reduce risks and to establish greaterinsight and control. This role also supports, assist and coordinate the integration and standardisation of finance processes.

Other responsibilities include relationship management both internally and externally with all relevant stakeholders including IT, Compliance and Risk departments, committees and regulators.

**Search Criteria**:

- Demonstratable project management skills
- Team leading/management experience (demonstrates good ability to be a leader)
- Good understanding and experience around delivering Finance Change
- Excellent communicator with commercial sense and stakeholder management experience with the ability to communicate the value of building/maintaining/adopting/ developing strong
**Job duties:
The Head of Finance Change Management will be required to deliver strong leadership to ensure change is delivered against a robust change framework, linked into the enterprise change management framework. The role is responsible for ensuring projects aredelivered on time, to budget and to the required quality standard (within the agreed specifications). Key areas of control are change governance, documentation and data quality. The role will also manage relationships with stakeholders (including all projectcontributors) across the various business units. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are a must. Due to the nature of the role, good business analysis skills and prior experience working in a change management function delivering impactful changefor finance are essential.

**Key Accountabilities include**:

- Lead the EMEA Finance Change Management team. Mentor, train and motivate a team of three FTEs ensuring clear objectives are in place and performance is managed proactively.
- Put in place the appropriate governance and control frameworks to ensure change is delivered successfully in Finance.
- Provide monthly status updates (Documentation, KPIs, Risks, Progression, Resourcing, Costs) to the Finance Leadership Team, and agree prioritisation of change and SME resources.
- Partner with Technology to ensure the projects are budgeted and delivered in a timely manner.
- Manage project delivery according to project methodology, policies and standards.
- Work closely with the Finance teams, wider business support and internal/external development teams to identify possible projects which could deliver material benefits to the existing Finance framework.
- Presenting post implementation monitoring, reporting and analysis.
- Provide training on project management where required.
- Ability to work with business SMEs as well as project and IT representatives.

**Skills and experience required**:

- Ability to prioritise multiple deliverables simultaneously
- Able to succinctly summarise key messages when managing upwards
- Bachelor’s degree, professional qualification or relevant qualification or accreditation desirable
- Relevant, appropriate and demonstratable experience in a similar role with proven project delivery
- Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor and train teams
- Excellent communication and business partnering skills
- Experience in internal controls management
- Proficiency in project management software tools and techniques
- Strong and demonstrable Excel or other analytical skills or tools
- 5+ years finance operations knowledge desirable
- Process design and engineering
- Experience working on projects related to Oracle e-Business desirable
- Ability to understand and translate complex business requirements