Finance Transformation Manager

About HSO

HSO is a business transformation partner with deep industry expertise and global reach. HSO leverages the full power of the Microsoft Cloud to transform the way in which people work and engage customers, ultimately accelerating the impact of cloud transformation and improving overall business performance. By leveraging the power of Dynamics 365, Generative AI, Data, AI, Copilot capabilities and the full Microsoft Cloud; HSO helps companies innovate faster by modernising business operations, adopting data-driven intelligent automation, delivering real-time insights and connecting the enterprise. Founded in 1987, HSO has more than 2,500 professionals throughout Europe, North America, and Asia and is one of the world’s top business solution and implementation partners and a member of Microsoft’s elite Inner Circle, representing the top 1 percent of partners worldwide.

HSO specialises in industry sectors such as Retail, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Financial Services and Public Sector. As an award-winning partner, HSO has been recognized as the global winner of the 2023 Partner of the Year Award for D365 Finance and as a Finalist for D365 Sales and Marketing. In addition to Best Tech Company 2021 to Work For and the 6th Best Large Company to Work For in 2022.

At HSO we take pride in being large enough to serve, but small enough to care. We are uniquely positioned to empower you to transform your career without compromising your life and we take pride in investing as much in our people as we do in our clients.

At HSO we transform the way in which people work and how businesses operate to get results for our clients. This takes exceptional cutting-edge technology, knowledge, talent, determination and entrepreneurial spirit. Our culture and values support entrepreneurial mindsets and attitudes where your voice will always be heard.

Job Purpose

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced finance qualified, transformation leader to join our HSO family. As a Finance Transformation Manager, you will build relationships with customers which inspire and guide customers on their finance transformation journey from envisaging to creating overall strategy, overseeing the design and delivery of overall finance transformation and following it through with regular engagements to continue to support them throughout their cloud adoption.

Our Finance Transformation Manager will work in 3 major phases across customer engagements:

1. Inspire and Engage

Provide inspiring sessions on how HSO can support the finance transformation within customer organisations. Demonstrate how this can be achieved with process and technology content and understanding, linking these changes to the customer business and IT strategies, as well as justifying it with finance specific measures. Underpinning engagements with credibility that positions HSO as a trusted advisor to the CFO.

2. Strategy Definition and Architectural Design

Taking direction from the customer and with deep understanding of their constraints, you will support engagements to transform finance functions, and as part of wider Enterprise Architecture phases. This process will create board ready packs for projects and approaches which we can sell and are based on sound principles enabling a successful delivery. Through

your expertise and approach you will become a trusted advisor to the customer and provide ongoing advice and detail to support business transformation and technology implementation.

3. Governance and Account Development

Once projects are in flight you will support the technology implementation with finance focussed transformation services, looking at how to effectively redesign processes, reporting and structures within their organisations.

Requirements

Overview of Experience and Key Responsibilities

Presales

- Build relationships with and guide finance leadership team and key finance managers on their transformation journey.

- Supporting and delivering presales engagements with discussions, presentations and demonstrations.

- Understanding the Microsoft Solution Plays combined with customer needs, able to turn their vision into workloads which can be delivered by the delivery team.

- Develop and advise on Finance Strategy.

- Engage with and support Account Managers in building strategic relations ships with clients

Finance Transformation

- Develop and articulate a comprehensive finance transformation strategy aligned with HSO's goals and objectives with the support of the Head of Finance Transformation

- Working with the Enterprise Architecture team to design solutions across the business and technology domain.

- Run workshops within the EA phase to scope and design finance transformation work and technology requirements

- Support Head of Finance transformation with larger finance transformation engagements.

- Assess client current infrastructure and recommend cloud adoption strategies.

- Able to work independently or alongside with Enterprise Architecture team to define overall digital strategy for the customer covering Business applications and wider Azure stack.

- Support engagements from client side to advise on transformation of

- Presenting HSO at events to further our standing in the market

Client-Side Support

- Work client-side supporting core finance configuration and redesign in line with the finance transformation strategy.

- Advise finance transformation team on specific complex requirements of finance team redesign.

- Provide technical accounting advise to client team in line with new system capability suggestions for process automation and enhancement.

- Identify optimisation opportunities from working with the finance team and present back to EA team and client.

Essential Behaviours

- Demonstrates care with every interaction.

- Tenacious.

- Able to influence others.

- Able to say ‘no’ to someone, in the best way possible.

- Uses relevant business acumen to make informed choices.

- Ability to work in an entrepreneurial business.

- Lateral thinker, who will actively listen and contribute to broader topics.

Essential Experience

- Proven experience working in a finance department

- Practical experience in finance transformation

- Practical experience of a finance ERP implementation

- ACCA/CIMA Qualified

- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

- Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Location

This is a hybrid role and can be based either from our Reading, Glasgow or Manchester offices, or home. Please expect a large amount of planned travel which will involve overnight stays near customers, our offices and other UK locations for meetings, events and training.

Benefits

Salary:

We offer a competitive, market-aligned salary, that reflects the skills and experience of each candidate. Our commitment to providing a fair and equitable salary ensures we attract and retain top talent in our industry. The salary package will be discussed during the interview process and will be based on current market benchmarks for similar roles, as well as the individual’s qualifications and experience.

In addition to base salary, eligible employees have the opportunity to earn performance-based bonuses and participate in our benefits programs.

Benefits:

Paid Holidays

Pension

Healthcare

Dental

Life Insurance

Tonic Wellbeing

HSO Perkz

Flexible working when required and agreed