Shared Services Finance Transformation Manager
hace 5 días
Glasgow
\n W&A is working with a major global organisation to recruit a Shared Services Finance Transformation Manager on a two-year fixed-term contract, based just outside Glasgow with hybrid working. \n \n This role will help shape the transition of transactional finance activity into a more standardised shared services model, with a focus on process improvement, service design and delivery. \n \n The Opportunity \n \n Working with the Head of Finance Shared Services, you will support the design and delivery of a future-focused shared services model across transactional finance. You will analyse where activity can be centralised, simplify end-to-end processes, define service expectations and help build the governance, measures and enabling tools needed for a consistent, efficient and well-controlled service. \n \n Key Responsibilities \n \n \n • Support design and delivery of the shared services transformation workstream, coordinating inputs, actions and stakeholder engagement.\n, • Help define scope, service catalogue content, operating principles and service expectations, clarifying responsibilities and hand-offs.\n, • Analyse finance activity to identify centralisation and simplification opportunities, applying LEAN or similar methods to remove non-value-added work.\n, • Support root cause analysis and continuous improvement to strengthen service quality, control effectiveness and cycle times.\n, • Develop practical service management outputs, including SLA approaches, KPIs, reporting requirements and governance measures.\n, • Document key end-to-end transactional finance processes and ensure service, process and control implications are reflected in future designs.\n, • Coordinate delivery through detailed design, execution, go-live and business-as-usual handover.\n, • Track risks, issues and dependencies across finance process teams, controls and ERP-enabled transformation activity.\n, • Support requirements and readiness for workflow, case-management and other enabling tools needed by the future shared services model.\n, • Prepare clear governance materials, updates and communications to support decisions and change activity.\n \n \n About You \n \n \n • Experience in business process analysis, process improvement and workstream delivery within Finance, Shared Services or a transformation environment.\n, • Practical process improvement expertise, with experience of LEAN or similar methods for standardisation, root cause analysis and cycle-time improvement.\n, • Strong finance transformation and project or programme delivery experience, ideally in a complex change environment.\n, • Good understanding of shared services principles, service management and governance measures such as SLAs and KPIs.\n, • Strong analytical, documentation and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn insight into clear and usable outputs.\n, • Well-developed planning, organisation, stakeholder engagement and communication skills.\n, • Confidence using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving programme.\n \n \n Package & Benefits \n \n \n • Salary: £54,761 - £70,239.\n, • Two-year fixed-term contract.\n, • Broader benefits include pension, bonus opportunity, flexible working and private healthcare.\n, • Location: just outside Glasgow, with hybrid working.\n \n \n Why Apply \n \n \n • Help shape a shared services model from design through to transition and embedding.\n, • Combine finance process improvement with service management, governance and technology-enabled change.\n, • Gain broad exposure across transactional finance and a major transformation programme.\n, • Join an international premium consumer business investing in more consistent and scalable finance operations.\n \n \n To learn more or apply, please contact Andrea Green or Ross McQuarrie for a private and confidential discussion. Alternatively, submit your CV and we'll be in touch. \n