Head of Finance Operations and Shared Services

Role Overview

The Head of Finance Operations and Shared Services will lead the UK operational finance team and deliver accurate, timely financial reporting, robust governance, and controls. The role combines technical finance expertise with operational excellence, transformation, and people leadership.

What You Will Do

The Head of Finance Operations and Shared Services will take ownership of work that gives the company a competitive edge, including financial leadership and performance, central accounts payable and procure-to-pay, governance, controls, and transformation, and people and stakeholder leadership.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will bring recognized professional accounting qualification, substantial progressive finance experience, strong IFRS knowledge, and experience leading or transforming a high-volume AP, procure-to-pay, or finance shared-services environment.

Requirements

• Recognized professional accounting qualification: CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
• Substantial progressive finance experience, including multi-entity operational finance responsibility and meaningful leadership experience.
• Strong IFRS knowledge and proven capability across financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, audit, tax, governance, and internal controls.
• Experience leading or transforming a high-volume AP, procure-to-pay, or finance shared-services environment.
• Strong understanding of vendor-master governance, PO compliance, invoice matching, reconciliations, exception management, and segregation of duties.
• Demonstrated ability to improve processes through systems, data, automation, and performance measurement.
• Strong commercial judgment, analytical capability, stakeholder influence, written and verbal communication, and people leadership.

Benefits

• Supergrowth learning and development programmes
• Performance tool for meaningful feedback
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Group Life Cover
• Funeral Fund Benefit
• Income Continuation Benefit
• Medical Aid Subsidy
• Retirement Annuity Subsidy

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