Interim Finance Transformation Partner

Interim Finance Transformation Partner (12 Month FTC) (London – Hybrid)

About Finova

Finova is the UK's leading lending and savings technology provider, supporting one in every five mortgages nationwide. Our agile, cloud-native solutions enable over 60 banks, building societies, specialist lenders, equity release providers and a network of 2,400+ brokers to stay ahead in a competitive market.

Built on open architecture and backed by deep industry expertise, our platform is designed to scale. Each year, we process over £50 billion in loans, manage nearly £50 billion in savings, and support the digital servicing of more than 650,000 UK borrower accounts.

Be part of a team that’s driving innovation, enabling growth and shaping the future of UK lending.

Finova offers a flexible, modular technology suite designed to help lenders move faster, scale efficiently and deliver standout digital experiences.

Financial Institutions use Finova to launch products faster, process applications up to 50% more efficiently and reduce operational costs — all while staying fully compliant in a fast-moving market.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, this is a 12 month FTC role created to redesign and embed the core operational processes that keep finance running – starting with accounts receivable, then accounts payable and month-end close.

Finova has grown quickly, and our finance processes need to catch up with the scale and complexity of the business. We have strong systems in place – Net Suite, Hub Spot, Kantata and Pivot – but they are not yet working as hard for us as they could, and too much still depends on manual effort and individual knowledge stemming from fragmented processes and data quality issues.

This is a hands‑on role, not an advisory one. You will be expected to step into the processes and run them yourself while you redesign them and work with other areas of the business to clean the data inputs, then train and coach the permanent team to take them on. Success is measured not by what you recommend, but by what is still working three months after you leave.

We take continuous improvement seriously. Everyone in finance has access to Claude and Gemini, and we actively encourage using them to take the grind out of the work. We also run Finance Labs: two to three hours of protected time every week, dedicated to improving our own processes rather than just running them.

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with demonstrable experience delivering finance change and transformation – ideally in a fast-growing SME, tech or SaaS environment.
• A genuine doer. You are as comfortable clearing an AR ledger or running a close yourself as you are designing the process that replaces it. This role will involve rolling up your sleeves, and we are explicit about that.
• Systems capable, not just systems literate. You have configured a finance system rather than only used one – building workflows, automations and reporting – and have taken at least one finance system implementation or migration live end to end. Net Suite experience is a strong advantage.
• Data-driven mindset. You are naturally analytical and curious about data, with a strong desire to understand the underlying dataflows to drive process improvement and smarter decision‑making.
• Practical with AI. You can give worked examples of using AI tools to take real work out of a finance function – reconciliations, GL coding, query handling, reporting – and quantify what it saved.
• Stakeholder influence beyond finance. Much of what needs to change sits with Sales, Delivery and Operations. You can build the relationships and make the case that gets other teams to change how they work, without formal authority over them.
• A coach and enabler. You enjoy building capability in others, and you can support hiring, training and upskilling so the team is ready to own the new ways of working.
• Curious by default. You ask why a process exists before you optimise it, and you are drawn to problems rather than away from them.
• Strong Excel / Google Sheets and data manipulation skills as a baseline, for the periods where the systems are not yet…