Finance Transformation Manager

About This Role

This role is for an experienced individual to join the growing Business Transformation Consulting practice, specifically within the Finance Transformation team. The manager will partner with CFOs to design and implement future-ready Finance operating models, helping clients navigate increasing complexity and an ever-changing business environment.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with clients to establish trust and credibility quickly and build effective relationships
• Be a team player with a 'can do' attitude, understanding that the best solutions come from collaboration and exchange of ideas
• Be a problem solver, creative thinker, and self-starter, who is organised, proactive and inquisitive
• Manage a team and juggle multiple deadlines
• Contribute to client proposals and presentations
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients, working closely with them in identifying, analysing, and solving their business challenges

Requirements

• Finance qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, AAT etc)
• Management & PQE experience with an established portfolio of work experience, ideally within a professional services environment
• Strong academic record: preferably with a relevant or business-focused degree (such as finance, accounting, business management or data analytics)
• Proven experience in finance transformation projects, including process redesign, system implementation and/or operating model development
• Experience in designing and implementing Finance Target Operating Models, including organisational design, service delivery models and/or governance frameworks
• Strong understanding of finance processes and what ‘good looks like’ (e.g. across financial planning & analysis (FP&A), record-to-report (R2R), procure-to-pay (P2P), and order-to-cash (O2C))
• Able to lead engagements, planning and facilitating workshops to confirm objectives and requirements, identifying processes gaps, and analyse the impact and propose solutions to address these
• Ability to work in cross-functional project teams, manage stakeholders, and drive change in complex environments
• Excellent project management skills, with a strong track record of delivering transformation initiatives on time and within budget
• Strong written and oral communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex ideas to non-technical stakeholders and influence at all levels of the organisation
• Strong client relationship management skills
• Must be a team player, able to work in virtual teams and independently
• Proactive, organised, and self-motivated
• High proficiency in MS Office (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint)
• Demonstrate and operate in line with RSM’s core values of excellence, teamwork, integrity, respect, and stewardship