Powered Finance Director

☞ KPMG-UnitedKingdom

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Update day: 01-06-2024

Location: Birmingham West Midlands

Category: Consulting / Customer Service Energy Finance / Bank / Stock

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Job type: Full-time

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Powered Enterprise is KPMG’s world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation approach for cloud-based solutions that uses pre-designed back-office leading practices and KPMG’s six-layer Target Operating Model. It enables clients to make better, faster decisions, resulting in a quicker implementation and a faster path to Return on Investment. This solution combines the breadth and scale of KPMG’s leading practice, capabilities and insight into a complete solution for an effective back-office.

In the Finance Transformation (FT) and Powered Finance team, we improve the effectiveness and efficiency of Finance Functions and generate real insights to help deliver value to our clients. We are a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, working together with technology focussed professionals to deliver KPMG Powered Enterprise though a standardised delivery model, which drives professional delivery to clients. Our mission is to be the leading FT practice in the UK market, to be number one in our focus markets, and to be recognised as innovators in finance technology.

The Role
We are looking to hire a client facing Director to grow our Finance Transformation and Powered Finance practice with extensive experience of implementing ERP technologies as well as cloud-based systems, particularly focussed on S/4 HANA and Central Finance. Responsibilities as a Director include but are not limited to:


  • Engagement delivery:responsibility for leading programmes and projects of a large size and complexity, with respect to planning, managing and executing the delivery of engagements, including overseeing the writing of client reports and the review and quality assurance of work products
  • Risk management:identifying and managing risks, engagement assurance and commercial risk management and ensuring the Firm’s frameworks are implemented appropriately and effectively
  • People development:leading large teams, identifying team member development needs and accelerating development with particular emphasis on managing and mentoring engagement team members, coaching and skills transfer
  • Practice development:taking a leading role in processes and initiatives that are key to scaling the business and achieving our Mission Statement
  • Business development:leading the establishment and development of relationships both internally and with clients, as well as leading business development activity (including developing, contributing to and presenting proposals/bids for future work)


The Person
  • Recognises the importance of continuous self and team development and actively strives to achieve this.
  • Evidence of being an active listener, strong team player and willingness to develop new skills and capabilities
  • Helps others to understand how their work contributes to the overall success of an engagement and the wider firm
  • Fosters a sense of self belief and confidence in others
  • Seeks to understand others motivations
  • Supports others to make brave decisions
  • Experience of implementing ERP technologies for Finance function
  • Relevant finance qualification - ACA, CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA or equivalent
  • Flexibility to travel


Skills and experience required
Successful candidates should be able to demonstrate the following skills:
  • Proven track record of working on finance improvement consulting projects, working across multiple aspects of a finance function and ERP implementation particularly SAP, S/4 HANA, Central Finance
  • Good understanding of issues and challenges facing Finance functions, Finance business partnering and trends in Finance.
  • Experience managing teams to deliver to deadlines and required quality standards; experience developing, coaching and mentoring team members
  • Excellent communicator with the personal skills to build strong and lasting internal and client relationships; and the ability to deliver clear, concise, focused messages to senior finance team members or clients
  • Strong commercial and financial analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, generate insights and construct solutions.
  • Impactful written communications, producing high quality, client ready outputs (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio)
  • Deep knowledge and understanding of the Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Projects, Record to Report process (underlying drivers to general ledger transactions, consolidation, disclosures etc.) and interdependencies with other processes.
  • Strong knowledge of month end close processes and key constraints organisations
  • Experience of multiple enterprise software deployments (preferably cloud deployments)
  • Knowledge of how Finance processes are enabled within finance systems landscape (preferably SAP, S/4HANA or SAP CFIN)


Relevant large corporates experience and knowledge in one or more of the following sectors:
  • Aerospace & Defence
  • Consumer Markets
  • Energy
  • Industrial Manufacturing
  • Leisure
  • Life Sciences
  • Retail
  • Technology, Media & Telecommunications


A final word from us...

Everybody likes to say they’re different... but we really think we are.

We’re hugely proud of what we’ve managed to achieve so far, but we’re only just getting started. We’re looking for people to grow with us and are committed to helping everybody reach their destination, regardless of what that is.

Should you choose to join us, you can expect an attractive benefits package, which typically includes:

Financial
  • A competitive salary
  • Pension options
  • Bonus scheme that reflects firm and individual performance
  • Rail and Oyster Card reimbursement
  • Staff discounts
  • Access to preferential banking

Lifestyle
  • 25 days holiday, with the option to buy up to an extra 10 days, plus an additional day of leave for your birthday
  • Competitive maternity and paternity leave
  • 6 days of work time each year for volunteering
  • Daily lunch allowance
  • Flextra - a flexible benefits scheme that allows you to choose benefits for you and your family, such as, travel insurance, critical illness insurance, dental insurance and discounted gym memberships

Health and Wellbeing
  • Private medical insurance
  • Personal accident insurance
  • Life assurance of 4 x salary with the option to increase this via flexible benefits scheme
  • Access to private, remote GP appointments anytime and anywhere via a smartphone
  • Online health risk questionnaire
  • BeWell employee assistance programme for confidential information, advice, or counselling for life’s daily challenges
  • Group Income Protection

No matter what skills you bring to our team, you’ll be surrounded by spirited, naturally curious people. People who want to learn from you, and who’ll also teach you a thing or two along the way. It’s how we make a collective impact, greater than the sum of its parts.

And if this isn’t the role for you but you like what you see, keep in touch. There will be other opportunities to join us.

For more details about a career at KPMG, visit: www.kpmgcareers.co.uk
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Deadline: 16-07-2024

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