Finance Director - Global Finance Shared Service Centre

MDM Resourcing; Manchester; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A Private Equity backed Business Services company is seeking a Finance Director for its Global Finance Shared Service Centre in Manchester. The role involves leading a 150+ person team, driving transformation in financial operations, and ensuring compliance across multiple jurisdictions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing multinational back-office functions and hold a recognized accounting qualification. This position offers an opportunity to impact global finance strategy and operations significantly.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in leading large, multinational back-office operations.
• Strong track record in process optimisation and control design.
• Experience managing teams across multiple countries and time zones.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day delivery across a 150+ person global team.
• Drive transformation across end-to-end processes.
• Develop financial policies, controls, and processes.

Skills

Process optimisation

Automation

Multinational team management

Cultural awareness

Education

Recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Job description

An internationally acquisitive global Private Equity backed Business Services business is seeking aFinance Director – Global Finance Shared Service Centreto play a central role within the CFO’s leadership team. The business is focused on driving operational excellence, financial transparency, and the ongoing transformation of its global finance operations.

The Role

Working closely with peers across Treasury, Tax, Procurement, and Business & Financial Control, you will lead a large multinational finance administration function and help shape its evolution.

The remit includes:

• Leading day-to-day delivery across a150+ person global team, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and high-frequency performance management.
• Driving transformation across end-to-end processes using principles ofsimplification, standardisation, and automation, with the long-term aim of a location-agnostic model.
• Developing and embedding financial policies, controls, and processes that safeguard assets and support operational scalability.
• Ensuringfirst-time-right processing of transactions, and partnering across the CFO Office on more complex matters.
• Supporting statutory, regulatory, tax, and audit requirements, and maintaining close alignment with financial control and compliance teams.
• Providing regular insight to the board and executive team on performance, risks, and opportunities across core financial administration processes.

The Candidate

You will bringsignificant experience in leading large, multinational back-office operations (P2P, O2C, R2R, Master Data Management),ideally within both Private Equity environments and very large-cap settings.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• A recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• A strong track record in process optimisation, automation, and control design.
• Experience managing teams across multiple countries and time zones.
• Confidence operating with multiple GAAP/IFRS requirements and supporting global tax compliance.
• The ability to motivate diverse teams, with strong cultural awareness; multilingual capability is advantageous.
• A pragmatic, solutions-focused approach aligned to growth, efficiency, and value creation.
• Ideally resides in the North West of England