Finance Director

Your new company
Hays is partnering with a major global organisation to recruit an experienced Interim Finance Director into a large-scale, international finance function.
This is a senior leadership assignment with responsibility for complex, multi-entity finance services across multiple markets, combining operational delivery with a significant finance transformation and digital agenda.
Your new role
Reporting into senior leadership, you will take end-to-end ownership of finance service delivery, ensuring operations remain efficient, controlled and compliant while driving transformation across people, processes and technology.
Key responsibilities will include:

Leading large-scale finance services across multiple countries and legal entities.
Driving finance transformation, process optimisation, automation and standardisation.
Overseeing key finance processes including Record to Report, P2P, Intercompany, Lease Accounting and Tax.
Ensuring strong financial controls, IFRS compliance, SOX controls and proactive risk management.
Leading geographically dispersed and cross-cultural teams.
Driving productivity improvements, efficiencies and sustainable cost savings.
Supporting ERP and wider digital finance transformation programmes.
Managing relationships with senior stakeholders, Finance Directors, external BPO providers and service-line leaders.
Maintaining high-quality service delivery while implementing significant organisational and process change.
What you'll need to succeed
You will be an established finance leader with significant experience operating within a large, complex, global organisation and a strong background in finance shared services / finance operations.
Ideally, you will bring:

A professional accounting qualification such as ACA/CA or ACCA.
Significant leadership experience within complex international finance operations.
Strong end-to-end finance services and shared services experience.
Proven finance transformation and change management experience.
Experience leading large, geographically dispersed teams.
Strong process optimisation, automation and ERP transformation exposure.
Experience within the telecommunications sector.
Excellent senior stakeholder management and communication skills.
A highly commercial, customer-focused approach to finance service delivery.
What you'll get in return
This is an opportunity to take on a highly visible interim leadership assignment within a complex global finance environment, combining finance transformation, shared services leadership and operational improvement at scale.
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this opportunity and have the relevant large-scale finance services and transformation experience, please apply with an up-to-date copy of your CV.

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