Head of Reporting - RTR

North West, England

Salary up to £85,000 subject to experience plus Bonus (up to 25%) & Car Allowance

This is a permanent - full time opportunity, hybrid role with 2 to 3 visits per week to the office subject to business needs and some global travel.

T2M have been appointed to recruit a Head of R2R Reporting, for a global group with a turnover in excess of £4B. Our client is looking for strong base experience of traditional financial reporting / work stream interrogation 'Knows what good looks like' to include experience of commercial reporting in relation to manufacturing.

Strong team management experience is required to develop and lead a Global Reporting Centre of Excellence, in addition to ensuring management financial reporting and reporting systems are embedded from local level though to shared services to produce 'fit for purpose' data to satisfy the management reporting dashboard to drill down by country to report the extract of data to provide consistent real time message.

This is a key appointment in the business helping to develop SAP S4 HANA and implement new reporting systems to accommodate the ever-changing needs of the business as the company moves through its change and transformation program and become BAU.

What will you be doing in your role as Head of R2R Reporting:

* Be the accountable owner for global process standardisation and optimisation, including the collaboration with other finance leaders to ensure continuous improvement.

* Provide thought leadership for, and drive the creation of, a best-in-class Management Finance Reporting and Visualisation capability, as part of the Management Reporting Transformation programme.

* Develop and lead a Reporting Centre of Excellence of up to 6 FTE to maintain the new Management Finance Reports and to develop additional reports for future requirements and provide Reporting process and system knowledge support to broader finance community.

* Lead the functional development of SAP Management Finance Reporting and Visualisation Tools, capable of producing a core of automated standardised Financial Reports and self-serve bespoke reports, and work with Information Systems team to deliver them.

* Define and agree Management Reporting requirements at the Business Unit, Geographical Region, Customer and Product Level.

* Design and agree the scope, granularity and format of Management Finance Reports that provide appropriate levels of information for all users of financial information including financial processing, management review and analysis, commercial decision making, and Board Reporting.

* Build the standardised suite of core automated Management Finance Reports including standard financial reporting, KPIs, profitability analysis, and other commercial financial information.

To be successful as Head of R2R Reporting, you will have the following skills & experience:

* Ideally a qualified Accountant, CIMA, ACCA and educated to degree level.

* Must have experience of large multi-national business.

* Previous experience of leading a Management Financial Reporting team.

* Commercial reporting in relation to manufacturing.

* Must have FP&A experience.

* Strong systems experience in Finance ERP implementation or large-scale change programmes.

* Excellent SAP ECC6/ SAP S4 HANA/SAP BW/ SAP SAC experience is essential.

* Adept at developing Management Financial Reports.

* Confident and articulate with great influencing and communication skills to build effective relationships with different stakeholders.

* Business process improvement experience.

* Inquisitive and detail focused - happy to dig into information to find solutions to issues.

* Multiple management reporting and consolidation would be advantageous.

To apply please forward you CV together with details of your current salary, benefits and notice period.

* Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK on a permanent full-time basis.

* Must have a driving licence and be happy to travel within the UK & globally.

Due to high to the high volume of applications we are receiving we are unable to respond to each candidate personally. If you have not heard from us within 10 days unfortunately your application will not have been successful.

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