Finance Ops Leader: Sales-to-Cash & Transformation

Lorien; Manchester; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorien is seeking a Head of Accounting Services in Manchester to lead a large Sales to Cash function within a shared services environment. The role focuses on driving operational excellence across billing, collections, cash application and financial controls, with accountability for circa £1bn of annual billing and collections activity.

The candidate will lead transformation, optimisation and service excellence across people, processes and technology, partnering with senior stakeholders to

Qualifications

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CCAB-recognised qualification.
• Significant leadership experience within Shared Services, GBS or Finance Operations environments.
• Deep understanding of Order-to-Cash, Sales-to-Cash, Credit Management and Collections processes.
• Experience leading large-scale teams through change and transformation.
• Strong SAP ERP experience and exposure to outsourced service delivery models.
• Proven ability to improve controls, processes and operational performance.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Strong analytical, governance and risk management capability.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for the end-to-end Sales to Cash process.
• Drive improvements across billing, collections, cash application and reconciliation activities.
• Lead working capital performance and support cash flow optimisation initiatives.
• Ensure delivery against agreed SLAs, KPIs, governance controls and service standards.
• Optimise SAP and associated finance systems, improving efficiency and control.
• Partner with senior business leaders on working capital and commercial finance matters.
• Lead, coach and develop a large finance operations team.
• Drive transformation and continuous improvement across shared service processes.
• Collaborate with peers across Finance Services to deliver organisational objectives and strategy.

Skills

Leadership experience

Stakeholder management

Transformational capability

Analytical capability

Financial controls

Order-to-Cash expertise

Education

ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CCAB-recognised qualification

Tools

SAP ERP

Job description

Lorien is seeking a Head of Accounting Services in Manchester to lead a large Sales to Cash function within a shared services environment. The role focuses on driving operational excellence across billing, collections, cash application and financial controls, with accountability for circa £1bn of annual billing and collections activity.

The candidate will lead transformation, optimisation and service excellence across people, processes and technology, partnering with senior stakeholders to