Finance Automation, Process Optimisation Manager

Role Overview

• Lead and manage finance digital transformation projects – including automation initiatives – from discovery through to implementation, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to the required standard.
• Collaborate across all finance functions to coordinate activities, dependencies, and impacts
• Identify, assess, and prioritise opportunities for digitalisation and automation that offer enduring business value
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and process mapping sessions to define optimised, scalable workflows before build
• Oversee delivery through internal IT resources and/or offshore teams, ensuring business requirements are accurately translated into technical designs
• Apply process improvement methodologies and where relevant leverage AI, machine learning, and analytics to enhance workflows and insights
• Ensure all solutions meet governance, compliance, and security requirements, and are tested thoroughly prior to deployment
• Manage programme roadmaps, maintain milestone tracking, and produce dashboards to track benefits realisation
• Partner proactively with finance teams, IT and other key stakeholders to align on priorities and secure buy-in
• Facilitate and lead workshops, discovery sessions, and alignment meetings to ensure initiatives meet business needs and are understood across regions
• Promote transparency through regular communication of project objectives, risks, progress, and benefits to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Act as the bridge between business users and technology teams, driving consensus and ensuring final solutions meet agreed quality standards
• Maintain knowledge of automation, low-code solutions, and other technologies relevant to finance operations
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks for digital and automation initiatives, including documentation standards, sprint planning disciplines, and role clarity
• Ensure embedded performance monitoring and maintenance procedures are in place post-go-live
• Create and deliver training and onboarding for impacted finance teams.
• Produce clear process documentation, user guides, and communication materials to drive adoption
• Monitor the uptake of new solutions, collect feedback, and implement refinements to ensure benefits are fully realised and sustained over the long term

Requirements

• 3+ years’ experience in project management and process improvement
• 3+ years’ experience working in an operational finance role within a finance function of an international business
• 3+ years’ experience in project management and process improvement and re-design
• 3+ years’ experience of development and documentation of finance policies and procedures
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Professional certification in project management highly desirable
• Lean Six Sigma or process improvement qualification advantageous
• Qualified or Part-Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) desirable but not essential — strong finance process knowledge is key.

Benefits

• annual bonus
• retention bank
• health insurance
• pension
• other local benefits