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Salary- £75K FTC
- February Start Date (Subject to Security Checks)
- Qualified Chartered Accountant Req.
The purpose of this role is to support this transformation journey for the Finance core processes by defining and delivering transformation and continual improvement changes throughout the end-to-end Finance core process. These encompass:
- The Service to Cash (S2C) process, concentrating on customer sales, billing, and collections.
- The Source to Pay (S2P) process, centered on the end-to-end supply chain, procurement, contract management & termination, accounts payable, and expenses.
- The Project to Retire (P2R) process, focusing on project and asset management and control, ensuring the end-to-end project lifecycle is managed effectively.
- The Record to Report (R2R) process, focused on collecting, processing, and delivering information timely and accurately from other core processes.
The role involves interfacing between Business Owners, technical systems, project teams, and Services delivery teams, forming part of the cross-functional Business Operations team. This team oversees systems supporting core processes, aligning and integrating systems and processes to optimize business benefit and operational delivery within the control and assurance framework set by Financial Control.
As a change agent, the role leads change for core process business systems, processes, and people, impacting the present and future.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Collaborate with core process stakeholders, the Finance Business Services Delivery team, and the Business Operations team to define, prioritize, and implement core process transformation and continual improvement.
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert for systems within specific areas of the end-to-end core process, being aware of interdependencies with other core processes.
- Proactively recommend improvements, responding to business requirements, ensuring solutions fit current and future challenges.
- Be the primary contact for system-related challenges and changes, supporting Systems & Process Owner in influencing process changes and improvements.
- Participate actively in Oracle customer community forums, influencing Oracle's roadmap of future functionality.
- Monitor that the Finance core process mitigates risks, maintaining controls and audit requirements set by Business Owners.
- Represent Finance core processes in the Business Operations virtual team, driving progressive business change and data/systems integration.
- Support the creation of project plans, lead business change delivery, manage risks, and ensure stakeholder buy-in.
- Create and lead delivery of communications plans and relationships with key users and stakeholders.
- Track business benefits associated with the Finance core process.
- Design and communicate process and controls changes with relevant parties, including Business Owners and Process Delivery Teams.
- Maintain process maps, standard operating procedures, and control documentation relevant to the Finance core processes.
