Job Title: Finance Integration / Transformation Manager
Salary: $Competitive excellent benefits (bonus, pension, healthcare, life cover etc.)
Location: Washington / Hybrid
Starting Date: ASAP
Background:
- On June 1, 2022 the Fishawack group acquired a health consulting company based in Washington DC, with over 200 employees and target revenue of $80million this financial year. This will form part of the business unit named Policy, Access, Value, and Evidence (“PAVE”).
- As part of the acquisition, within 12 months the acquired company will leave the current supporting structure, processes and systems governed by the former parent company to integrate into PAVE.
- We are seeking an individual with Finance background who will ensure People, Process, Systems and technology aspects are working together.
- The financial transformation/integration plan will look at current state, target operating model , GAP analysis, develop a roadmap and implementation and ensure all the changes are embedded in the day to day operations
- The Finance integration manager will report to the COO and Business Unit CFO
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead the Change and Transformation work stream program activities in accordance with functional and system requirements and translate these into detailed plans
- Plan and manage all Transformation deliverables to time, quality, cost, and scope
- Develop program communications plan
- Ensure appropriate and regular communications are developed for the stakeholder community to the agreed plan
- Partner with Finance and Integration teams to ensure communications are consistent, in compliance with standards and communicated via proper approved channels
- Ensure all key stakeholders (internal and external) are committed to, and actively supportive of the deployment
- Ensure strong business and integration engagement via Finance & Business Change Champions (“BCC”) and Team Leads
- Manage Change & Transformation activities required to embed new behaviours, practices and business processes including areas of key system and/or process dependency
- Build and manage change impact assessments as a key input in determining Readiness for Go Live
- Lead the Business Readiness Plan activities including tracking of the BCC Plans and tracking and management of the Business Readiness Project Plans
- Collaborate with various project or application owners to ensure consistency across multiple systems and enterprise groups
- Collaborate with Process Teams, Solutions Design Teams, Data Teams on process, technology, and data related change impacts for input into program/project deliverables
- Assess, deliver, and complete the Role Mapping for the end users to respective roles and any organisation work required
- Assess the training needs and implement effective training methods to ensure optimal knowledge transfer supporting performance post go-live
- Manage the delivery of training including onboarding of training team, development of any required localization of training materials; training needs analysis; scheduling of training and delivery of training.
- Managing business stability metrics before and after go live to measure post go-live stabilization.
- Initiate retrospectives to ensure lessons learned from previous sprint cycles are incorporated with appropriate mitigating actions, ownership and progress tracking
- Understand the scope and functionality of Access Dimensions/Focal Point and any interfacing systems/modules.
- Manage a team of Transformation Advisors/Analysts as appropriate.
Key Finance Departments:
- Accounting operations - (General ledger, Accounts payable, Cash & Bank, Accounts receivables, Payroll, Fixed assets)
- Project finance - Project billing and collections, Revenue recognition
- Financial reporting (internal & external) and performance reporting
- Financial planning and analysis – Budget and forecast
- Group functions (Treasury and Consolidation)
- Finance business partnering and strategic advisor
Key aspects:
- Documentation of the Financial transformation plan and related roadmap
- Transition from Oracle to Access Dimensions including training
- Support the implementation of workstreams target
- Aligning accounting and reporting processes and timelines
- Aligning with the Project & Operation team on use of FocalPoint & Timesheets
Key Stakeholders:
- Group integration team
- Acquired company and former parent company
- PAVE Leadership and Operation team
- Group finance team
Key Skills:
- Ability to organize and manage multiple, and at times, competing priorities utilizing project management skills and experience with finance system implementations, management information system development and project delivery
- Experience within sizeable multidisciplinary and matrix teams as well as specific experience with a finance function with a focus on projects, transformations, and systems
- Experience with process improvement (Lean, TQM or other) process digitization, data management
- and systems implementations
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Highly motivated, committed, and driven individual.
- Seasoned professional with operational and portfolio management experience transformations), capable of decision making and execution.
- A proven ability to work under pressure, to meet tight deadlines and respond to changing priority
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