Finance Systems Lead - London, United Kingdom - KANTAR

KANTAR

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3 weeks ago

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Why this job is important

The Finance Systems Lead will support the growth and development of our finance products in line with strategic directives and future roadmap.

You will work with internal business leaders and partners to determine what is working (or not), research and deploy new features alongside our strategic partners and provide input and technical advice to our Finance product owners.

The Finance systems estate at Kantar is made up of several ERPs/Finance platforms, but primarily Maconomy and Microsoft.

Ongoing demand for change is high as the business looks to not only mature financial management, but also; business transformation, data initiatives, reporting, consolidation, and M&A activity are all drawing on the global finance systems team.

This is against a backdrop of shifting to a more mature ITSM (IT Service Management).

What you'll be doing

Use your strong finance knowledge to create intuitive experiences that deliver business value
Confidently communicate our strategy across the organization to influence stakeholders to align behind our objectives
Lead teams to define and execute against our most important priorities in service to our vision and strategic goals
Establish or participate in Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean rituals which establish a rhythm for the team, promote ongoing communication, and iterative refinement of product initiatives
Champion the use of the right technology to deliver on product initiatives and strategic intents
Serve as an inspiring leader, contributing practitioner, career guide, and mentor to your teams

The skills & experience you'll need.

Demonstrable experience in and passion for building and implementing great products
Working knowledge and best practice of Finance Systems design in the context of ERP products. Ideally experience of Deltek
Maconomy, but also SAP, Oracle, Onestream, Microsoft 365 and Netsuite.
Experience working with Product Management, Agile, Design Thinking, and Lean methodologies
Experience implementing at least one major ERP lifecycle project
Proven experience leading high performing teams
Actively support establishing and maturing the target operating model, including documenting processes and procedures
Develop and mature relationship with the business, enhancing business confidence in the Enterprise Business Solutions team
Strong leader, comfortable communicating to senior leadership and challenging existing paradigms
Exceptional communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills, including the ability to clearly communicate technology concepts to nontechnology personnel
Take ownership for issues and work to resolve them in a practical manner which aligns with the strategic architecture
Customer focused, committed to excellence, strong attention to detail and a great teammate

Location

London, More London PlaceUnited Kingdom

Kantar Rewards Statement

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles.

Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Kantar is the world's leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else.

Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar's 30,000 people help the world's leading organisations succeed and grow.