Finance Transformation Lead - (FTC, opportunity for perm

Affinia is the UK’s largest purpose-led, purpose-built Accountancy firm, focused on building stronger, more valuable relationships. With over 1000 colleagues across the East, South East, London and the Midlands, we are dedicated to supporting our clients, colleagues and communities.

We advise businesses, public sector organisations, charities and individuals throughout the UK and internationally across six Service Lines - Accountancy & Advisory, Tax and Planning, Audit & Assurance, Corporate Finance, Payroll and Corporate Recovery. Our team also offer in-depth sector expertise across a number of sectors, ensuring our clients receive the best short to medium and long-term advice, tailored to them.

We are committed to delivering excellence in every aspect of our work, adapting to the evolving technology and regulatory landscape while consistently exceeding client expectations.

Our people are our most valuable asset. We are therefore committed to supporting our colleagues throughout their professional development, providing guidance and training at whatever stage of their career they join us.

Real people. Real growth. Real difference.

As Finance Transformation Lead, you will be responsible for owning and delivering a high-impact finance transformation agenda to support the Group’s growth and value creation objectives. Working closely with the senior finance leadership, you will drive the design and execution of a scalable, efficient, and well-controlled finance operating model, underpinned by simplified processes, modern systems, and strong governance.

You will bring pace, structure, and execution discipline to a broad portfolio of initiatives, ensuring the finance function is equipped to support growth, integrations, and increasing complexity. The role requires experience in change leadership capable of balancing strategic design with hands‑on delivery, while maintaining a strong focus on financial control, reporting quality, compliance, cash generation and operational excellence.

As a trusted senior member of the finance team, you will work across all aspects of the finance function, helping to strengthen capability, improve performance and embed sustainable change.

• Lead the end-to-end finance transformation programme, establishing appropriate governance, priorities, milestones and performance measures to deliver the Group’s finance strategy and value creation objectives.
• Design and implement a scalable finance operating model across people, processes, systems, controls and data to support business growth and increasing organisational complexity.
• Review, simplify and standardise core finance processes (R2R, P2P and O2C), driving automation, efficiency, control and consistency across the Group.
• Lead finance systems strategy and execution, including optimisation, process automation, reporting enhancements and data quality improvement initiatives.
• Strengthen the Group’s financial control environment by improving governance, balance sheet integrity, compliance, reporting processes and risk management frameworks.
• Drive improvements in management reporting, month-end close, working capital, cash flow forecasting and performance insight to support better decision making.
• Ensure finance processes and systems support compliant and accurate reporting under FRS
  102 and are fit for purpose in a multi-entity environment.
• Support acquisition activity, including finance due diligence, integration planning and the successful onboarding of acquired businesses into Group processes, controls and systems.
• Develop and implement standardised finance policies, procedures and operating frameworks to embed consistency and best practice across the organisation.
• Partner closely with the finance leadership team and operational stakeholders to identify improvement opportunities, challenge existing ways of working and deliver sustainable business benefits.
• Provide leadership, coaching and direction across finance teams, building capability, accountability and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Deliver measurable outcomes including enhanced financial control, improved operational efficiency,…