Head of Finance Operations

Hybrid - Birchwood, Warrington

Full-time Permanent

ABOUT THE ROLE
Reporting to the Finance Director, and collaborating with the Financial Controller, Head of Finance Transformation, FP&A and Commercial Finance this is a critical leadership role during a time of significant change for our client.

The mandate is to create a best-in-class finance operations organisation for our client.

Due to our client's go-to-market proposition, the AP & AR functions play a fundamental role in the client and supplier offering and the leader will require the commercial acumen to create value for the group with a focus on recoverability of the cost base, as well as the experience of running a finance operations organisation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Leading teams of AP and AR specialists through a time of process and system transformation to create a best-in-class service operation within the required financial control framework.
* Collaborating and partnering with stakeholders across the organisations, including Sales, Procurement, Operations and proactively managing the internal and external relationships with customers and suppliers
* Playing a lead role in the Finance Transformation workstreams, whilst embedding a culture of Continuous and Process Improvement
* Proactively reviewing and developing KPI dashboards and reporting, providing transparency and performance results to the Finance Director, and LT and wider Group Finance stakeholders
* Operational ownership of billing accuracy, working with the wider business to ensure clean and accurate data feeds through process and data improvements
* Leading month end processes working alongside the Accounting and control teams.
* Owning appropriate annual audit requirements working alongside the FC
* Wider finance team and ad-hoc project support as required

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS
* A senior leader with significant experience running a Finance operations function in a complex multi-national organisation.
* Reputation for being a change agent.
* Demonstrate leadership skills through times of significant change.
* Data-driven performance management with a passion for operational excellence
* Proven experience in process re-engineering and continuous improvement
* Experience of working in a fast paced environment, managing multiple priorities and deadlines
* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, showing a high attention to detail
* Ability to be pro-active and challenge as appropriate.
* Excellent stakeholder managements skills
* Has impact and gravitas with the ability to collaborate with people across the organisation and at different levels

ABOUT OUR CLIENT

Our client is one of the world's leading providers of Integrated Supply Solutions to manufacturing industries for the provision of MRO (indirect) products. Their portfolio consists of Procurement Services, Transactional Processing, Stores Management, and Inventory Optimisation enabled by industry leading digital platforms. They deliver world class results to world class companies in industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Foods, Beverage, Automotive and Aerospace.