Finance Transformation Lead

We have an opportunity for someone to join us as a Finance Transformation Lead to work in a truly global environment to lead and coordinate strategic change across Finance and related support functions to strengthen Hartree’s operating model, improve control, increase scalability, and support continued global growth.

Position Title:
Finance Transformation Lead

Business area: Corporate Services

Function: Finance Management

Location: London, United Kingdom

Position Type: Full-time

Schedule: Hybrid

Hartree Partners, LP is a leading global merchant commodities firm facilitating the flow of energy, metals, agriculture, and environmental products across the full commodity supply chain, connecting producers and consumers. Hartree was founded in 1997, is jointly owned by senior management and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, LP, and employs over 5,000 individuals worldwide.

Hartree is uniquely positioned to capitalize on opportunities across a diversified set of commodities businesses with focus on trading, asset investments, risk management and advisory services. These businesses are supported by a centralized operating model including risk, technology, operations, finance, HR, legal and compliance, ensuring strong governance and effective execution.

As a growing and evolving firm, Hartree continues to expand its commercial footprint, invest in new assets, and build new capabilities to meet emerging market opportunities. This growth mindset shapes our culture and attracts people who want to innovate, build, and drive meaningful impact.

The Finance Transformation function leads and coordinates strategic change across Finance and related support functions to strengthen Hartree’s operating model, improve control, increase scalability, and support continued global growth.

The Finance Transformation Lead is a newly formed, high-autonomy role within a lean and evolving Finance Transformation function, requiring the ability to lead work streams independently and drive progress across complex, cross-functional initiatives. The role will work closely with stakeholders across Finance, Operations, IT, Risk, Commercial teams, and external partners to analyse existing processes, data, systems, controls, and operating models; identify improvement opportunities;

define business requirements; support target-state design; and help drive change across a portfolio of transformation initiatives.

This role combines business analysis, process and control assessment, AI opportunity identification, project delivery, and change management. The successful candidate will combine strong analytical capability with practical execution skills, moving between detailed analysis and project delivery, governance, stakeholder engagement, and change adoption. The position requires good judgment, credibility, communication skills, and the ability to operate effectively in a complex global environment.

It is suited to an individual with strong character, a high degree of autonomy, a willingness to dig into detail, and a clear bias toward delivery.

• Lead current state assessments covering business processes, systems, data, controls, reporting, governance, and operating models across Finance and related functions
• Identify pain points, inefficiencies, control gaps, manual workarounds, role ambiguity, data issues, and opportunities to improve scalability, standardisation, automation, and control
• Work with stakeholders across Finance, Operations, IT, Risk, Commercial teams, and external partners to define business problems, gather requirements, assess options, structure work streams, and support target-state design
• Partner closely with business stakeholders, data teams, and AI enablement teams within IT to identify, evaluate, and shape AI, automation, analytics, workflow, and knowledge management opportunities, including tools and knowledge bases that organise Hartree data and information
• Assess and prioritise AI and automation opportunities based on business value, feasibility, data readiness, control considerations, implementation complexity, and adoption requirements
• Lead or support stakeholder interviews, process mapping, workshops, data analysis, issue structuring, and documentation to create a clear fact base for transformation decisions
• Provide project and change management support across Finance Transformation projects, including planning, milestone tracking, dependency management, risk and issue management, action tracking, and status reporting
• Coordinate across work streams and functions to ensure activities are aligned, decisions are documented, dependencies are visible, and owners are clear on next steps
• Support change adoption through stakeholder engagement, impact assessment, communications, training coordination, readiness tracking, and post-implementation feedback
• Develop performance measures, reporting, and tracking mechanisms to support benefits realisation, business architecture, and continuous…