Description:

Role Description

We are looking to recruit Finance and Treasury Transformation candidates with deep knowledge of the domain into our growing Financial Crime, Risk, Regulation and Finance (FRRF) capability. You will have strong change management experience and a background in financial services.

You will be involved in advising clients and delivering transformation across the Finance and Treasury functions of our clients, in support of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Treasurer. The type of work you will get involved in includes Finance and Treasury implementation of strategic changes (e.g. ledger transformation and process excellence for controls, balance sheet and capital optimisation, analytics and reporting), regulatory changes (e.g. Basel, IFRS, PRA, EBA) and delivery of reporting. (e.g. ICAAP, ILAAP and RRP). You will spend time with clients dealing with problems as they arise and gaining valuable experience and exposure to how the projects and client organisations work across the financial services industry.

The type of projects we cover are:

- Finance and Treasury strategy and operating models, including Balance Sheet Management and Capital optimization strategies

- Implementation of regulatory changes e.g. Basel, Solvency II, IFRS, PRA, EBA

- Finance and shared services / outsourcing.

- Finance organisation design.

- Financial regulatory reporting and change

- Finance function process improvement including digital process modelling, automation and AI.

- Cost reduction exercises, with effective benefit realisation plan.

- Benchmarking the finance function.

- Performance management including budgeting and forecasting.

- Finance IT strategy - including embedding applicable digital technologies (i.e accounting engine, subledger, cloud adoption)

In your role as a Finance and Treasury Transformation Consultant, you will have responsibility for:

- Supporting our clients to achieve compliance with regulatory obligations, including dealing with remediation and response to regulatory reviews.

- Designing solutions, delivering on client assignments and owning delivery of projects.

- Ensuring management information is provided to, and easily understood by, programme leads, senior management and client committees.

- Defining and managing monitoring processes.

- Building assurance and control capabilities in line with regulatory expectations and risk appetite.

- Liaising with internal control and risk functions across three lines of defence.

- Managing stakeholder expectations spanning global business areas with conflicting priorities.

- Ensuring timely escalation and control of risks, issues, dependencies and timelines.

- Developing long-term trusted advisor relationships with external clients and industry contacts.

- Understanding business models and helping translate them into business requirements and test scenarios for handover to IT partners.

- Working collaboratively with relevant teams in identifying opportunities for and securing new business.

- Supporting the sharing of knowledge and experience with the team to help develop your colleagues and the capability of the firm.

Skills and Expertise:

- Finance / Accounting / Treasury

- Demonstrate understanding and experience of advising on and implementing regulations such as Basel, Solvency II, IFRS, SOX, GDPR, PRA, EBA) and delivery of reporting (e.g. ICAAP, ILAAP and RRP).

- Accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) (desirable)

- Demonstrate strong understanding of accounting fundamentals and processes, for example: profit & loss, balance sheet, capital allocation, cost allocation.

- Good understanding of the role of the Finance and Treasury function within financial services organisations, including all aspects of the finance operating model (people, data, technology).

- Experience of delivering transformation projects within finance functions, either as a consultant or as part of an in-house change-delivery team. This could be finance technology projects (e.g., ERP, Accounting Engines/Subledger/Finance Reporting implementations), right-shoring or other operating model transformations or finance process improvements.

- Understanding the impact of the relationship between finance and other functions such as risk, tax and compliance.

- Experience of working with the C-Suite - CFO, CRO, CDO community (desirable)