Record to Report - Finance - Process Excellence
Fully Remote with occasional travel
£80,000 - £90,000 + Car Allowance (£5,500) + Other amazing benefits!
The Role:
This role will have responsibility for overseeing and optimising the end-to-end Record to Report process within the UK&I. You will be responsible for ensuring the smooth coordination between SSC activities, Central Finance and upstream activities across the business.
You will also act as a key liaison, driving process improvements, ensuring compliance, and enhancing operational efficiency. Additionally, the role requires close alignment with the Global Operation and adherence to global standard processes.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee the entire R2R process lifecycle within the country, ensuring seamless integration between offshore and onshore activities.
- Identify, analyse, and implement process improvements to increase efficiency, accuracy and compliance.
- Develop and maintain process documentation, ensuring all procedures are up-to-date and clearly communicated to relevant stakeholders.
- Track and measure performance against defined key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level agreement (SLA).
- Collaborate with the Global Process Owner to ensure local processes adhere to global standards and contribute to global process initiatives.
- Conduct regular audits and reviews to ensure process integrity, effective controls and identify areas for improvement.
- Provide training and support to operations and finance teams on R2R processes and best practices.
- Act as a change agent, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Ensure all R2R activities comply with company policies, legal regulations, and industry standards.
- Monitor and manage risks associated with the R2R process, implementing corrective actions as necessary.
- Support the transition and stabilisation of R2R activities
- Drive the change in culture and mindset to ensure compliance to a collective way of thinking and working.
- Successful collaboration with the UK&I Finance, Operations and SSC teams to implement and deliver best in class processes.
- To be proactive in building strong effective business working relationships with all stakeholders including internal suppliers and customers.
- To be the design lead for all RtR related finance transformation within UK&I. This will involve managing the end-to-end process changes ensuring successful implementation.
The Candidate:
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- Fully Qualified ACA/CIMA/ ACCA
- Experience in Record to Report, financial accounting, or a related function, preferably in a multinational environment.
- Proficiency in ERP systems
- Experience of working on ERP or Finance System implementation projects, ideally SaaS or cloud-based systems.
- Proven experience in process improvement and project management
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements related to R2R processes
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment