Description
Finance & Accounting (F&A) Transition Manager
Location: Holborn, London
Duration: Initial 6 months
Steria Recruitment Ltd (a Steria company) provides recruitment and resourcing solutions to Steria, a leading European IT service provider.
Steria requires a Finance & Accounting (F&A) Transition Manager to manage the transition of a F&A service to move from a current SAP 4.7 platform to a new ECC6 SAP platform.
The Finance & Accounting (F&A) Transition Manager will be responsible for:
- Ensure that Programme is appropriately constructed, planned (including agreeing scope, deliverables and outcomes with the customer and Steria), resourced, monitored and delivered in the time frame and cost agreed
- Ensure all stakeholders are engaged and remain committed to the Transition Programme and have complete awareness of the Programme Objectives and Delivery Strategy
- Understand business requirements and nuances of the programmes
- Ensure Transition Programme has a risk management strategy in place, including a defined escalation route in order to manage and mitigate (or further escalate) risks to the Programme objectives
The role will require occasional travel to Birmingham and Manchester when required.
Finance & Accounting (F&A) Transition Manager Essential Skills:
- Transition Manager with experience of managing Programmes covering acceptance of IT platforms as sufficiently tested on which to run a Production Finance & Accounting service
- Experience of Transitions within a Business Process Outsourcing environment, to a shared service delivery model
- Experience of managing delivery of Programmes whose scope covers Transformation to new operating models in a Business Process Outsourcing environment
- Experience of managing hybrid project teams including onshore, offshore, dedicated staff, seconded staff, client staff and contractors
- Excellent Stakeholder management skills, with ability to manage stakeholders up to and including Board level
- An excellent communicator with outstanding people management skills
- An achievement orientated, target driven individual with experience of driving teams to meet challenging deadlines
- Good level of commercial awareness
Finance & Accounting (F&A) Transition Manager Desirable Skills:
- Successful track record managing both risk and change management functions
- Professional Accounting Qualifications
The successful candidate must be willing to go through the required security clearance process. No agencies, so contact me directly
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