Finance Transformation Manager, Business Performance Improvement

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Where We Need You:

Protivitis Business Performance Improvement practice specialises in helping organisations enhance operational efficiency optimise processes and achieve better financial outcomes. We support our clients with finance operational and technology transformation intelligent automation and people and change management.From process tweaks to major organisational structure optimisation back office to external reporting cost reduction to working capital issues we apply innovation collaboration and technology acumen to bring best-in-class solutions to your problems.

What You Can Expect:

As a Manager in our Finance Transformation practice you will lead the design and delivery of advisory engagements across end-to-end finance processes for a diverse client base spanning PE-backed businesses mid-market and FTSE-listed corporates and large organisations in financial services real estate energy and professional services.

You will own day-to-day client relationships manage structured project governance and client workstreams and develop junior team members through the full project lifecycle. You will also contribute to the growth of the Business Performance Improvement practice through both delivery excellence and business development support. This is a client-facing role with genuine breadth and real scope to develop your career in a high-performing specialist team.

The work:

You will be involved in both the design and delivery phases of engagements across a range of Finance Transformation projects including:

• Shared services centre (SSC) transitions and outsourcing readiness including process standardisation roles and responsibilities design and go-live support

• Finance target operating model design covering people process technology data and controls across P2P O2C and R2R

• Finance process optimisation and efficiency reviews including current-state diagnostics gap analysis and improvement roadmaps

• FP&A and performance reporting transformation including planning process redesign management information improvement and budgeting and forecasting optimisation

• Automation and technology enablement including RPA business case development process mining and ERP-adjacent transformation

• AI in Finance assessments and implementation readiness including use case identification data and controls considerations and the path to an AI-enabled finance function

• Finance function benchmarking and maturity assessments against industry best practice

• Post-acquisition finance integration and carve-out support particularly relevant to our PE-backed client base

Key responsibilities:

Delivery and client management

• Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of Finance Transformation engagements managing workstreams timelines and quality of output

• Manage engagement governance including project plans status reporting risk and issue logs and client steering updates

• Serve as the primary day-to-day client contact building trusted relationships with senior finance stakeholders including CFOs Finance Directors and Heads of Shared Services

• Facilitate workshops to assess current-state finance processesidentifyrisks and inefficiencies and define improvement priorities across people process technology data and controls

• Produceaccuratecurrent-state documentation including process flow diagrams RACI matrices and gap analyses

• Lead the design of target operating models and future-state recommendations across finance functions

• Draft and review deliverables including findings reports roadmaps and proposals ensuring outputs are clear well-structured and commercially credible

• Identifyprocess improvement and automation opportunities and develop practical implementable recommendations with evidence of outcomes and results where possible

People and team

• Manage and mentor consultants and senior consultants on engagements providing regular feedback and creating development opportunities

• Contribute to the wider BPI team through knowledge sharing internal practice development and peer coaching

Businessdevelopment

• Support senior colleagues inidentifyingand developing new opportunities contributing to proposals and credentials materials

• Identifyopportunities to extend Protivitis scope with existing clients across the broader BPI and firm-wide service offering

• Contribute to thought leadership content white papers and marketing materials in the Finance Transformation space

Do Your Talents Include the Following

• Demonstrable experience in Finance Transformation Finance Change or a closely related consulting or in-house environment; candidates from external or internal audit or financial accounting will also be considered

• Solid working knowledge of at least two of P2P O2C and R2R with the ability toidentifyrisks inefficiencies and improvement opportunities across each

• Experience leading or managing small teams or workstreams in a client-facing environment

• A track recordofidentifyingand implementing process improvements or technology solutions in a finance context ideally with evidence of measurable outcomes

• Exposure to ERP platforms (SAP Oracle or equivalent) and/or finance automation tools such as RPA process mining or AI-enabled finance applications isadvantageous

• Experience with FP&A processes planning tools or performance reporting transformation isadvantageousbut not essential

• ACA CIMA or equivalent professional qualification isadvantageousbut not essential

• Strong written communication skills including the ability to produce clear well-structured client deliverables independently

• Confident presenter and facilitator comfortable engaging senior client audiences

• Able to manage competing priorities across multiple workstreams without losing quality or composure

• Experience contributing to proposals bid responses or business development materials

• Comfortable operating in ambiguous or fast-moving engagement environments with a practical outcomes-focused approach