Senior Finance Coordinator & PMO Manager
Job Summary
(Finance Office Manager)
About the role
We are looking for a highly organised proactive and commercially minded Senior Finance Coordinator & PMO Manager to support and coordinate a broad Finance function of more than 50 colleagues across Accounting Tax FP&A Treasury Credit Control and related areas.
This is not a pure administrative role. You will act as the operational backbone of the Finance organisation: ensuring that priorities are clear deadlines are tracked meetings result in action cross-functional projects move forward and the CFO office runs effectively.
You will work closely with the CFO and senior Finance leaders combining project management stakeholder coordination governance support and hands-on operational follow-up.
Keyresponsibilities
Financeleadershipcoordination
- Support the CFO and Finance leadership team in organising priorities meetings decision-making and follow-up.
- Prepare leadership meetings agendas briefing materials and action trackers.
- Ensure decisions open points deadlines and ownership are clearly documented and followed through.
- Coordinate communication across Accounting Tax FP&A Treasury Credit Control and other Finance teams.
- Act as a central point of contact for internal stakeholders on Finance-related coordination topics.
Project andtransformationmanagement
- CoordinateFinanceprojectsincludingprocessimprovementssystemsimplementationsreportingenhancements organisationalchangesandtransformationinitiatives.
- Maintain project plans timelines dependencies risks decision logs and status reporting.
- Challenge delays or unclear ownership constructively and escalate where appropriate.
- Support project teams in structuring workstreams preparing workshops and ensuring delivery against agreed milestones.
- Help turn broad strategic initiatives into clear workplans and practical next steps.
Governanceplanningandreportingsupport
- Coordinate key Finance calendar activities including budgeting forecasting monthly reporting audit preparation and year-end processes.
- Support the preparation and coordination of management presentations board materials and internal reporting packs.
- Maintain a clear overview of recurring deadlines governance requirements and deliverables across the Finance function.
- Support documentation of Finance processes policies responsibilities and decision rights.
- Assist with the preparation of presentations summaries and high-quality communication for senior stakeholders.
Operationaleffectiveness
- Identify recurring inefficiencies unclear interfaces or bottlenecks across the Finance organisation.
- Propose and implement practical improvements to ways of working communication flows meeting structures and reporting routines.
- Establish simple reliable tools for tracking priorities projects and commitments.
- Help create a structured collaborative and accountable Finance culture.
- Support onboarding team events and internal communications where relevant to the Finance organisation.
- Several years of experience in a Finance PMO Finance Business Management Chief of Staff consulting audit controlling or comparable coordination role.
- Strong understanding of Finance functions and core processes ideally including accounting forecasting budgeting audit or reporting cycles.
- Proven experience managing complex cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Excellent organisational skills with a strong ability to create structure in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
- Confident working with senior leaders and able to communicate clearly diplomatically and assertively.
- Highly reliable discreet and comfortable handling sensitive information.
- Strong PowerPoint Excel and Microsoft 365 skills; experience with project-management or collaboration tools is an advantage.
- Fluent English required; German is highly desirable.
What success looks like
Within the first 612 months you will have:
- Created a transparent Finance leadership and project calendar.
- Established clear action tracking and follow-up routines across the Finance leadership team.
- Improved visibility over key Finance projects risks dependencies and deadlines.
- Reduced unnecessary coordination burden on Finance leaders and the CFO.
- Helped improve collaboration and execution across the wider Finance organisation.
- Become a trusted point of contact for turning plans and decisions into delivered outcomes.
Personal qualities
You are structured without being rigid diplomatic without avoiding difficult conversations and hands-on without losing the bigger picture. You enjoy bringing order to complexity working with different personalities and ensuring that important work does not get lost between teams.
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Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
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