Finance Project Manager

A leading global facilities management organisation operating in the real estate and property sector, based in Bolton, are looking to recruit an experienced Finance Project Manager to assist them on a long term basis during a period of transition.

The Role and Responsibilitites of the Finance Project Manager position will include:

Optimization and expansion of service delivery and the service placement of accounting processes, and ensuring service issues are addressed
Perform regular SLA and performance reporting as well as management review to internal customers
Manage internal customer escalations, resolve issues and implement process improvements with the local onshore leads (OtC, RtR and PtP)
Develop internal customer service orientation across delivery centres
Responsible for incidents monitoring and issue escalation
Coordinate the review of internal customer satisfaction surveys and provide root–cause analyses, action plans, etc
Monitor action plans, engage with the Finance Process Owners, Service Delivery teams and support function to get the progress updates
Support the transformation programme by e.g. proposing new opportunities to serve internal customers to Service Management Lead, identifying improvement opportunities to Finance Process Owners etc
Provide insights and input to establish and maintain Governance Structure, Escalation Matrix, SLAs framework, etc
Support local business continuity planning
Define and deploy Onshore delivery standards
Help to establish a consistent reporting mechanism with analysis on a regular basis focussing on service improvement, internal customer engagement, KPI and SLA reporting, proposed targets and tracking business impact
Perform Finance process performance benchmarking (end–2–end) across countries in collaboration with Finance Process Owners
Give input for monthly performance reporting and Onshore management review against the measures and targets
Report on service delivery against SLA's; continuous improvement initiatives etcThe successful individual will;

Be ideally CIMA / ACCA / ACA qualified or QBE and overseas equivalent
Have been involved with an onshore/offshore project
Have experience within a Shared Service Centre environment
Have a proven background within the improvement of processes and procedures
Have strong excel and systems skills
Be available at short notice
If you would like to apply for this Finance Project Manager role or find out more, please apply online or contact Xavier Parisi at Robert Walters on or (phone number removed)