One of the worlds largest and most innovative sustainable technology organisations has an urgent requirement for an Interim Transition Controller.

This is an initial 6-month interim contract offering between £500-£600 p/d inside IR35 and 100% remote working.

The purpose of this role is to deliver two key projects within the Catalyst Technologies Financial Control function that will significantly contribute to the transformation journey.

1. Implement a process to co-ordinate the Overheads activities within Catalyst Technologies, ensuring that Overhead budgets are in place with effective performance management, ensuring that managers have the information needed to aid decision making and manage costs activities.
2. Define and implement the Financial Control and FP&A operating model by overseeing the migration of tasks from Commercial Finance and Operations Finance to Financial Control, FP&A and shared service to deliver the end-state structure, ensuring capability and appropriate resource is in place to deliver the end state Financial Control requirements.

Principal accountabilities

Implementation of Overheads Management

Ensure each BU/Site has a budget at the appropriate department and sub-cost group level.

For each manpower budget, ensure there is a back-up of "Headcount, Role, Name".

Ensure a "bottom up" budget exists for all consultancy spend including a list of activity (Vendor, Rationale, Signed Off/To Sign Off)

Oversee the building of a monthly actuals reporting v budget and publish, ensuring all stakeholders have access to the self-service solution

Ensure appropriate analysis and intervention on material overhead variances verses budget

Oversee CT overheads structure ensuring clarity of cost centres, aligned to the organisation design and ensuring managers have access to accurate, timely overhead performance information.

Ensure overhead forecasts are accurate and capture future expected changes to headcount and other costs

Financial Control and FP&A Operating Model

Define the CT Financial Control and FP&A operating model

Oversee the migration of tasks from Commercial and Operational Finance ensuring that tasks are relocated to the correct location in line with the operating model

Challenge the norms to ensure simplicity and efficiency

Key Requirements:

• University / Postgraduate (Master's degree) qualification
• Professional accounting qualification, e.g. ACA, CIMA or equivalent
• Significant experience in FP&A function preferably in a large corporate organisation with recognised automated 'big data' analytic capabilities.
• Experience of chemicals / automotive industries
• Experience in strategic planning and insightful analysis leading to business performance enhancements
• Professional accounting qualification, e.g. ACA, CIMA or equivalent
• Significant experience in large matrix organisations with shared service centre
• Experience of leading finance teams