Overview
Interim Head of Shared Services – Maidenhead
Responsibilities
Key deliverables:
- Manage shared service team ensuring engagement plans are delivered
- Create a set of KPIs to support smooth running of core finance processes and monitor and report on agreed KPIs
- Manage a wide range of stakeholders including senior leaders in the business, project teams, business finance teams and group finance colleagues to ensure finance processes are understood and appropriately implemented.
- Ensure all balance sheet reconciliations are completed and reviewed to a high standard
- Manage financial calendar and manage month end close process to ensure all finance teams are appropriately engaged
- As a key member of Group Finance senior leadership team, own ad-hoc initiatives supporting the broader finance function
- Business system owner for concur and transactional processing elements of E1 ERP
- Own continuous improvement initiatives for shared services, including but not limited to, work alignment within teams, capability improvement and training, process simplification, data cleansing and financial control strengthening
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Qualifications
- Qualified accountant with substantial and well documented experience with PQE as well as significant shared service and finance process experience
- A hands on leader with experience of working in a FTSE 250 finance function
- Proven ability to lead, structure and develop high-performing finance teams
About Us
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
