Overview of Experience and Key Responsibilities
Presales
- Build relationships with and guide finance leadership team and key finance managers on their transformation journey.
- Supporting and delivering presales engagements with discussions, presentations and demonstrations.
- Understanding the Microsoft Solution Plays combined with customer needs, able to turn their vision into workloads which can be delivered by the delivery team.
- Develop and advise on Finance Strategy.
- Engage with and support Account Managers in building strategic relations ships with clients
Finance Transformation
- Develop and articulate a comprehensive finance transformation strategy aligned with HSO's goals and objectives with the support of the Head of Finance Transformation
- Working with the Enterprise Architecture team to design solutions across the business and technology domain.
- Run workshops within the EA phase to scope and design finance transformation work and technology requirements
- Support Head of Finance transformation with larger finance transformation engagements.
- Assess client current infrastructure and recommend cloud adoption strategies.
- Able to work independently or alongside with Enterprise Architecture team to define overall digital strategy for the customer covering Business applications and wider Azure stack.
- Support engagements from client side to advise on transformation of
- Presenting HSO at events to further our standing in the market
Client-Side Support
- Work client-side supporting core finance configuration and redesign in line with the finance transformation strategy.
- Advise finance transformation team on specific complex requirements of finance team redesign.
- Provide technical accounting advise to client team in line with new system capability suggestions for process automation and enhancement.
- Identify optimisation opportunities from working with the finance team and present back to EA team and client.
Essential Behaviours
- Demonstrates care with every interaction.
- Tenacious.
- Able to influence others.
- Able to say ‘no’ to someone, in the best way possible.
- Uses relevant business acumen to make informed choices.
- Ability to work in an entrepreneurial business.
- Lateral thinker, who will actively listen and contribute to broader topics.
Essential Experience
- Proven experience working in a finance department
- Practical experience in finance transformation
- Practical experience of a finance ERP implementation
- ACCA/CIMA Qualified
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
Location
This is a hybrid role and can be based either from our Reading, Glasgow or Manchester offices, or home. Please expect a large amount of planned travel which will involve overnight stays near customers, our offices and other UK locations for meetings, events and training.