Head of Finance Applications

Role Particulars:

Job title: Head of Finance Applications

Team: Finance Applications

Reporting to: Enterprise Applications Director

Job Description:

• Lead and manage the Finance Applications team.
• Provide finance application support and development to the business units on a value adding basis.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to the senior business stakeholders.
• Manage suppliers to support the delivery of Finance applications.

Team Management

• This will involve recruiting, developing and managing a team on an ongoing basis.
• Setting performance objectives and supporting development plans.
• Managing workload on a daily basis through oversight of a helpdesk ticketing tool.

Providing finance application support:

• Managing a first line response support desk in line with SLAs
• Working on projects and programmes as SME.
• Work with suppliers and internal teams to manage system changes in a robust and compliant manner.
• Managing the Finance applications through a product life cycle, ensuring compliance with security and audit requirements.
• Supporting improved business practices and processes through an effective governance framework.

Trusted technical advisory

• Support senior stakeholders in developing strategy and improvement plans for their business areas.
• Implement a governance framework to review issues, agree and implement best practice solutions.
• Work with other teams in IT to advise on changes and deliver improvements.

Supplier Management

• Manage supplier delivery to SLAs and contracts, build relationships and review service on a regular basis.

Key contacts:

• Enterprise Applications Director, Finance Applications team, Enterprise applications team, Finance Directors and Heads of Finance
• Procurement Directors and Heads of Procurement
• IT teams, Suppliers, External Audit

Core skills & competencies

• Leadership
• Robust problem-solving and analytical skills
• Team management
• A self-starter who is results-driven with high levels of self-motivation, energy and initiative.
• Proven ability to work under pressure.
• Be able to work independently as well as in a team.
• Good communicator

Expertise & knowledge

• Finance systems and processes
• Experience of a working in a busy Finance environment
• Applications development and management

Technology

• Experience in IT Applications preferably SAP
• Background in a Finance environment
• Knowledge of peripheral applications intrinsic to the financial applications eg, payroll, revenue, engineering, payments
• Understanding of server and networking architecture is an advantage.

Qualifications

• Appropriate IT Qualifications and experience