Key Responsibilities

• Leading and developing an integrated Finance function
• Ensuring financial reporting, controls and governance are maintained to a high standard across a multi-entity structure, including management of the annual external audit
• Strengthening planning, forecasting and decision support capability, and developing a more commercially focused finance team
• Contributing financial insight to capital planning and funding strategies for major initiatives, including affordability and investment decision-making
• Driving genuine transformation, including the simplification of reporting structures, cost centre hierarchies, workflows and approval processes
• Partnering closely with Strategic Delivery on business cases, project governance and benefits realisation
• Providing governance and coordination oversight of Procurement within the Finance portfolio
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Who We Are Looking For

The ideal candidate will be a collaborative leader with excellent stakeholder engagement expertise. They will combine strong leadership and coaching capability with solid technical grounding, and be adept at strategising, building a roadmap, managing expectations and bringing people along with a shared vision.

Qualifications And Experience

• A minimum of ten years' senior finance experience, including at least five years in a finance leadership role such as Head of Finance, Financial Controller or Finance Manager
• Strong technical credentials across financial reporting, audit, controls, governance and compliance
• A demonstrated track record of leading simplification and transformation initiatives, underpinned by a strong continuous improvement mindset
• Proven business partnering experience and sound commercial decision-making judgement
• Experience with eliminations and multi-entity consolidations
• The ability to operate strategically with executives while remaining willing to engage with operational details
• Experience within a complex, purpose-driven organisation is well regarded, along with a practical, collaborative and resilient approach