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Interim Shared Services Transition Lead £600 - £700

Interim Shared Services Transition Lead £600 - £700

  • Location

    London

  • Sector:

    Finance

  • Job type:

    Contract

  • Salary:

    £600 - £700 per day

  • Contact:

    Jamie Mackinlay

  • Contact email:

    jamie.mackinlay@1st-executive.com

  • Salary high:

    700

  • Salary low:

    600

  • Job ref:

    JM188_1657549572

  • Published:

    over 1 year ago

  • Duration:

    12 months

  • Expiry date:

    2022-08-10

  • Startdate:

    ASAP

  • Consultant:

    ConsultantDrop

A FTSE 100 business is looking to hire an Interim Financial Shared Services Transition Lead for a major outsource program.

This role will be focused on the delivery of the upcoming outsource.

This is a 12-month interim contract offering between £600-£700 p/d inside IR35 and hybrid working - offices in Central London.

This position will support the Finance Shared Services Implementation Lead in implementing a new captive shared services model involving establishing new finance shared services centres.

The Finance Shared Services Transition Lead will be responsible for the end-to-end execution of assigned transitions, including the transitioning of finance activities from local finance teams to the SSC's, co-ordination with both the local finance teams and the captive shared services centres team to ensure the transitions are delivered according to the agreed timelines and budget.

Key Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the end-to-end execution of assigned transitions
  • Ownership of the detailed transition plans and builds out status reports as per the defined timelines in the program
  • Planning, scheduling, and monitoring the execution of assigned transitions
  • Actively identifying, prioritising, and mitigating project risks and issues
  • Identify project stakeholders, and communicate transition progress, risks and issues regularly
  • Analyse transition internal/external dependencies to ensure that critical path is defined and maintained
  • Engage proactively with the local finance teams to ensure transition plans are aligned and resources available to support the transition according to the defined plans
  • Engage proactively with the receiving Shared Services Centres to ensure Knowledge Transfer is executed effectively so that activities are successfully moved through to go-live
  • Closes and transitions project to operations; verifies stakeholder satisfaction with transition outcomes
  • Carries out transition management activities using best practice project transition methodologies

The role requires the following skills:

  • Qualified Accountant with strong knowledge of finance
  • Previous experience in set up of finance shared service centres
  • At least 2 years of transition management experience (offshoring/outsourcing/move to captive)
  • Expertise in one or more specific SSC topics, e.g., target operating model design, service management, performance management (SLA, KPI)
  • Process knowledge - R2R, O2C, P2P
  • Experience in moving multiple FTEs from different locations to a shared services environment
  • Experience managing transitions of large scale and complexity

This is an urgent requirement so if this is of interest please apply immediately and contact Jamie.mackinlay@1st-executive.com to find out more.