Associate Director - Finance Shared Services
Associate Director
- Finance Shared Services
Permanent
Based in Gatwick
Tony Alan Recruitment currently has an exceptional job opportunity for an experienced Associate Director
- Finance shared services to join a growing and forward-thinking organisation.
This is a senior leadership position with responsibility for leading and developing a high-performing Finance Operations function across Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Credit Control, Expenses and Payments, while driving a significant programme of process, technology and service transformation.
The successful candidate will play a key role in modernising Finance Operations, improving service delivery, simplifying processes and maximising the use of technology, automation, self-service and AI.
Your duties will include:
- Leading the Finance Operations function across AP, AR, CC, Expenses and Payments.
- Developing and delivering the long-term Finance Operations and transformation strategy.
- Improving the experience and service provided to internal and external stakeholders.
- Driving process improvement, standardisation and simplification.
- Leading digital transformation, including automation, workflow, self-service and AI.
- Maximising the value of Workday and associated finance technologies.
- Ensuring processes are scalable, efficient, well controlled and compliant.
- Providing strong oversight of financial governance, audit readiness and data integrity.
- Managing complex stakeholder relationships and acting as a senior escalation point.
- Leading, developing and motivating a high-performing team.
Key requirements:
- Leading a significant Finance Operations or Shared Services function.
- Managing areas such as AP, AR, Payroll, Expenses and Payments.
- Delivering process improvement and business transformation.
- Implementing or maximising ERP and finance technologies, ideally including Workday.
- Introducing automation, self-service and digitally enabled ways of working.
- Managing senior stakeholders and influencing at executive level.
- Good foundation and understanding of accounting/bookkeeping
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