GL Lead Core UK - Senior Manager, Transformation

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Senior Manager, Transformation - GL Lead Core UKLocation - Bristol / London Sites / Remote 12 months Contract£700 per day - (Umbrella/Limited) My Client is looking for an experienced Senior Manager professional for a 12-month contract position.The Finance Transformation team will be accountable for delivering our transformation ambitions through an integrated and inclusive approach to finance transformation delivering value, productivity, and trust.Developing and delivering plans that successfully mitigate risks, deal with ambiguity, and define the strategic direction of Making Finance exceptional. Key Responsibilities:Accountable for transactional process/decisions for the Design & Integration authority to transform companies' global GL policies, use of Chart of Accounts and Period End Close controls across all CFUs and CUs.Own the relationships necessary to implement the tower deliverables both across the business and with the transformation partner teams where required, demonstrating understanding of the financial and operational consequences of performance.Lead, coach and mobilise other team members to define metrics and performance goals for the process.Accountability for the standard process design across the process, with sign off from the R2R Global process owner: Lead on managing business stakeholders' input into detailed design and requirements.Manage sign off to policy changes required for overall design.Ensure Data Governance, Data Quality and Master and Reference Data are embedded into the design and delivery.Ensure all necessary controls are embedded into the design, signed off by the controls team ready for deployment into BAU.Support other GPOs with short term transaction process initiatives.Lead any required "fit to standard" workshops for transaction processing ensuring business requirements are fully reflected in the end to end design, exceptions to standard are minimised, best practices/use cases fully leveraged and implications for new ways of working are fully understood.Accountable for testing & quality management: Participate in quality management reviews, reviews of the designs, prototypes, and other requirements work products to ensure they fulfil the requirements.Review and approve test scripts and execution of testing to ensure requirements are met in the end solution.Identify and manage critical path dependencies as part of supporting the development of the overall Record to Report roadmap.By working with the technical, change and business teams, define and agree the cutover and business readiness plans.Accountable for all elements of the tower ensuring that the programme team and CFU/CU teams work together to transition processes into the business as part of deployment and ensure business adoption.Define and own detailed plans to meet programme and transformation milestones, escalating risks, issues and important decisions to the relevant governance body as required.Lead on the process area elements of continuing the transform Record to Report to best in class, applying on-going continuous improvement to identify and implement changes (as agreed with the Finance Design & Integration Authority).Accountable for compliance to standards, controls, and procurement policy.Accountable for ensuring the company meets all statutory and regulatory obligations. Skills Required: Tower Knowledge: Knowledgeable in the drivers of organisational performance improvement via the Tower, what good looks like and what is possible through the design.Business acumen: Financial literacy (e.g. business KPIs, business cases).Matrix working: Comfortable working on a large programme where activities are managed according to a matrix structure. Able to work collaboratively and manage the time of their team to meet project deliverables. Resilient and able to challenge others, dealing with resistance to change to meet defined Programme objectives.Qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) with deep understanding of process area and reporting. Additional Requirements:Mandatory:Qualified Accountant.Experience implementing SAP Hana core financials and reporting tools.Operational experience of delivering Chart of Account changes to multiple business units across multiple geographies.Experience of delivering successful transformation projects where activities are managed in a matrix structure.Experience leading and managing global teams.Preferred:Telco and/or experience in similar industry.Process improvement qualifications e.g. 6 Sigma.Track-record of delivering similar multiyear programmes in multiple companies.If you feel that you would be suitable for the role then please send your CV.