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About the Role

This senior leadership role reports directly to the Global Solutions CFO and is responsible for leading the Consulting & Technology finance function. Key duties include financial analysis, forecasting, planning, budgeting, financial control oversight, and driving finance transformation within the C&T division.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of 33, including five direct reports across FP&A, financial control, and transactional finance.
• Lead the design and innovation of financial analytics, KPIs, forecasting, planning, and budgeting processes.
• Oversee the financial control function to ensure effective systems, processes, and controls.
• Develop and improve balance sheet reporting and controls.
• Drive transformation, operating model improvements, and efficiencies.
• Oversee the transactional finance team to maximize billing and liquidity effectiveness.
• Liaise and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Drive the integration of Consulting and Technology business units.
• Review, assess, and improve the financial reporting and control environment.
• Interact with finance teams and operational leadership on financial assumptions and drivers.
• Own the annual budget, support submissions, and consolidate final numbers.
• Work with the business to produce short-term and medium-term forecasts and performance reports.
• Oversee production of industry/capability performance reports, including margin and pricing analysis.
• Own revenue analysis and communicate revenue leakage.
• Identify and propose alternative approaches and techniques in finance activities.
• Be a key player in selecting future FP&A tools.
• Identify data quality issues and work with the team to resolve them.
• Coach team members and identify development needs.
• Oversee production of annual accounts and the audit process.

Requirements

• Qualified Accountant (or qualified with experience) with seasoned functional leadership expertise.
• Must have FP&A experience.
• Experience working in a global organization.
• Experience working within a PE environment is advantageous.
• Comfortable presenting and communicating complex finance information to Executive Leadership and non-finance management.
• Expert knowledge of multiple accounting systems (D365, Sage etc).
• Credible dynamic leader who can influence team members and wider stakeholder groups.
• Experience building excellent relationships with colleagues and external contacts.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to distill complex technical information into clear simple messages.
• High levels of analytical skill and commercial awareness.

Skills

• FP&A
• Financial analysis
• Forecasting
• Planning
• Budgeting
• Financial control
• Transactional finance
• Finance transformation
• Financial analytics
• KPIs
• Balance sheet reporting
• Operating model improvements
• Billing
• Liquidity management
• Stakeholder management
• Business integration
• Financial reporting
• Policy development
• Procedure development
• Control implementation
• Commercial analysis
• Budget ownership
• Forecasting
• Performance reporting
• Variance analysis
• Margin analysis
• Pricing analysis
• Revenue analysis
• Process improvement
• System implementation
• Data quality analysis
• Team coaching
• Annual accounts production
• Audit process management
• Leadership
• Communication
• Analytical skills
• Commercial awareness

Location

• London UK

Work Type

• Permanent
• Full Time
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior leadership

Education Level

• Qualified Accountant

About the Company

• Consulting & Technology (C&T) is one of the three sub-divisions of Davies Global Solutions.
• C&T has approximate revenues of £70m and a headcount of c1000.