Finance Planning and Delivery Manager - Outside IR35

Our client is looking for a highly skilled Finance Planning and Delivery Manager to join their team for a 6 months initial contract.

THIS ROLE SITS OUTSIDE IR35

Key Responsibilities

• Balancing competing priorities on different pieces of work in challenging timescales.
• Being able to adapt to the requirements of different types of change work (by planning and organising effectively).
• Influencing decisions across teams where priorities and interests are often conflicting.
• Ensuring a continually high quality of output to ensure solutions are a good fit for the end user and/or for further input.
• Responsible for ensuring all change impacting Finance is delivered using a consistent and robust change process which aligns to core principles, ensuring a successful delivery and value against the business opportunity
• Defining test strategies, managing defect resolution, and leading the testing effort - including test analysts and the project team.

Key Skills Required

• Ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders including senior management.
• Ability to manage and prioritise workloads to ensure agreed objectives and demanding deadlines are met under pressure.
• Ability to manage time effectively and pay attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organisation and planning skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Word Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint and MSP.
• Proficient in use of test management tools for Defect Management and Reporting.

Key Competencies

• Stakeholder Management: Interprets and influences both the external and internal environments by creating positive relationships with stakeholders through the appropriate management of their expectations and agreed objectives.
• Planning and organising: Organises, prioritises and, where applicable, delegates work activities to efficiently accomplish tasks and meet objectives. Includes the principles of time management and multi-tasking.
• Managing Change: Employs appropriate processes, structures, tools and behaviours to lead and/or control change initiatives. Applies a structured approach to drive and support change on an individual, team and/or organisational level.
• Communication Skills: Clearly and effectively communicates information, ideas, plans, requests and opinions to internal and external stakeholders through a range of channels including written and oral. Ensures alignment with communication guidelines and policies.
• Impact and Influence: Influencing others to achieve a positive impact. This includes communicating clearly, building support for ideas and having an impact on other people.
• Delivering Results: Meeting and exceeding performance goals and expectations to deliver results.

If interested then please submit your CV.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age