Head of Finance Consulting Capability

Job Description

Job title: Head of Finance Consulting Capability

Company: Sopra Steria

Job description: Are you an experienced finance transformation consultant with public sector experience, interested in playing a key role in developing and growing our unique consulting business in the health sector?

NHS Shared Business Services is a unique partnership between Sopra Steria and the Department of Health. We provide crucial corporate back-office services to NHS organisations.

We are market leaders in corporate service delivery with around 40% of the NHS using one or more of our products. With unrivaled knowledge and experience, we provide high-quality, value-for-money finance, procurement, and employment services to the NHS, helping them overcome any challenges they face in the back office.

We work closely with NHS organisations all over the country to replace outdated, time-consuming, and error-prone processes, with affordable digital systems and more efficient ways of working, and in addition to our core services, we are designing and developing innovative digital technologies and piloting brand-new ways of working, which further improve efficiency and quality, and better support the NHS workforce to deliver world-class patient care.

We are passionate about using our expertise to save the NHS time and money and are more relevant today than ever before.

Our Finance Consulting Team provides end to end transformation support to CEOs, CFOs and Directors of the Finance in the NHS to optimize the value delivered by their finance and broader corporate services / back-office functions and to improve their contribution to the overall performance of their organization.

The purpose of this role is to develop and lead the Finance Transformation Consulting Team including leading sales, capability development and overseeing delivery. This is an opportunity to hire and grow your own team as it expands and refine the approach to Finance transformation in the NHS, developing methodologies and leading practice.

Sopra Steria and NHS SBS have won a “Great Place to Work” award two years running, as well as one of the best places to work for Women in the UK, and our focus is to support your wellbeing, which includes your work life balance, we are also committed to supporting you with whatever training you need to thrive in your role.

This role is hybrid variable working, you will be required to travel around 2 – 3 days a week to our offices and client sites across the UK, your contractual location can be at any of our offices based in – London, Manchester, Leeds or Bristol, the remaining days can be working from home or at your contractual office.

What you’ll be doing;

The right person will have skills in technology-enabled Finance and corporate services transformation with experience of selling, designing, and implementing technology-enabled finance and corporate services transformation. As such broad experience across all core areas of the Finance Function are required.

We help the NHS transform finance and broader corporate service delivery. This includes Finance and business services operating model transformation (service and interaction models, organisation design, process change, shared services, sourcing etc); creating value from technology to enable operating model transformation (Cloud ERP, Robotics Process Automation and AI, EPM), culture change, skills development.

Your core responsibilities will be;

• As part of the Consulting Leadership Team, influencing, developing, and delivering the consulting strategy.
• Leading the Finance Consulting Team responsible for team and people development.
• Leading finance consulting business development and sales including development of the go to market plan, developing relationships, leading bids.
• Leading a portfolio of finance consulting projects.
• Leading the development of finance consulting propositions methodologies, tools and templates.
• You are likely to currently be working at Director level or an experienced Senior Manager in a consulting business.

What you will bring;

• You will have in-depth experience of being a Management Consultant from a recognized firm, which includes working with the Public Sector.
• Experience of having innovatively led and developed Finance and Corporate Services Transformation Value Propositions and Methodologies.
• Experience of leading complex finance transformation programmes.
• Experience of developing consulting strategies.
• Experience of developing go to market plans and leading managing consulting sales of

£3m per annum. * Evidence of personal business development success.

• Experience of building, leading, and developing teams.

It would be great if you had;

ACCA or CIMA Qualification.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time Permanent

Location: Hybrid Variable – contracted to any one of these locations – London, Manchester, Leeds or Bristol.

Internal Recruiter: Emma W

Salary: Up to £115,000 – Potentially flexible for a highly skilled candidate.

Benefits: £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical (couple), life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams’ expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.
We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.
Would you like to join us on our journey?

Expected salary: £115000 per year

Location: England

Job date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 07:16:50 GMT

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