Senior Finance Manager - London, United Kingdom - Checkout

Description

Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.

We're the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Wise, Hut Group, Sony Electronics, Homebase, Henkel, Klarna and many others.

Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love.

We're building diverse and inclusive teams around the world - because that's how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners.

And we need your help. Join us to build the digital economy of tomorrow.
com is actively seeking an exceptional individual to lead our Finance Systems team. This role will sit in the Finance Transformation Team, reporting to the Finance Transformation Director.

The purpose of this role is to ensure our Finance systems are operating effectively, providing value to our stakeholders, whilst maintaining controls.

This individual will be responsible for managing a team of four to implement and maintain IT General Controls (ITGCs), manage system releases, complete security audits and improve finance business processes in our systems.

There will be lots of opportunities to learn and for this remit to grow as our system landscape evolves and Finance Transformation projects are delivered.

This role would be ideal for someone that has worked in a finance department and then learnt finance systems to ensure they understand how our systems can solve business problems.

Manage third party finance systems, including Workday Financials, Workday Adaptive, Coupa, Dell Boomi, Longview and Navan.

For the systems above, you'll be managing the delivery of security audits, access management, release management, and key rotation.

Partner with the Finance team to improve existing systems and processes.

Be the ambassador of change, able to challenge existing practices with the aim to establish new processes based on the Finance priorities and Transformation objectives.

Work alongside the Finance Transformation team during new system implementations to ensure the support model post-go live is fit for purpose.

Creating detailed project plans, RAID logs, RACIs and reporting on progress to governance forums.
Own the roadmap of change and implementation for the team while periodic and BAU tasks continue.
Owning the incident management across all Finance systems, be the first point of contact.

Implement, document and own the IT General Controls (ITGC's) across the finance systems to ensure a robust control environment across our critical business system.

Liaise with the auditors to ensure effective and timely delivery of the audit evidence/support during year-end audits.
Strong knowledge of Finance systems.

Having led or been part of an implementation of Workday Financials and managed the system once live is a must.

Experience with controllership, purchase-to-pay, budgeting and forecasting, HR Information Systems, middleware, tax and travel systems is a must.
Experience with Workday Adaptive, Workday HCM, Coupa, Dell Boomi, Longview and Navan is preferred.
Experience with reviewing system configuration before moving changes to production.
Experienced in finance transformation projects/ programmes where you're implementing systems and improving processes through process re-engineering.
Understanding of best practice finance processes.
Good experience in educating stakeholders regarding finance related processes and how they translate to wider business impacts.
Good understanding of how Accounting processes should work to ensure they're efficient and controlled.

Able to act as a project manager to develop project plans, RAID logs, RACIs and then execute a project across functions.

Excellent at communicating with senior stakeholders and team members to identify issues and propose solutions.
Able to map processes, outlining risks and controls.
Experienced in data analysis, data manipulation and reporting.
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