Finance Systems Lead London, England
KANTAR
Full Time
London, England
69792 - 83792 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
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Job Details
Kantar is the world’s leading marketing data and analytics company. We have a complete, unique, and rounded understanding of how people think, feel and act; globally and locally in over 90 markets. By combining the deep expertise of our people, our data resources and benchmarks and our innovative analytics and technology, we help our clients understand people and inspire growth.
Why this job is important
The Finance Systems Lead will support the growth and development of our finance products in line with strategic directives and future roadmap. You will work with internal business leaders and partners to determine what is working (or not), research and deploy new features alongside our strategic partners and provide input and technical advice to our Finance product owners.
You will have full accountability for delivering new features and improvements to our strategic product suite and taking support ownership for applications that are peripheral to our core ERP’s. This is a highly collaborative role, where success requires getting into the detail of the product with the development teams, as well as being able to influence and engage executive and internal partners to deliver business value.
The Finance systems estate at Kantar is made up of several ERPs/Finance platforms, but primarily Maconomy and Microsoft. Ongoing demand for change is high as the business looks to not only mature financial management, but also; business transformation, data initiatives, reporting, consolidation, and M&A activity are all drawing on the global finance systems team. This is against a backdrop of shifting to a more mature ITSM (IT Service Management).
What you’ll be doing
- Utilise your strong finance knowledge to build intuitive experiences that deliver business value
- Expertly communicate our strategy across the organisation to influence partners to align behind our objectives
- Lead, develop, and inspire an Agile Delivery team of analysts, domain experts, developers, architects, and data analysts
- Lead teams to define and execute against our most important priorities in service to our vision and strategic goals
- Establish or participate in Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean rituals which establish a rhythm for the team, promote ongoing communication, and iterative refinement of product initiatives
- Champion the use of the right technology to deliver on product initiatives and strategic intents
- Serve as an inspiring leader, contributing practitioner, career guide, and mentor to your teams
The skills & experience you’ll need.
- Demonstrable experience in and passion for building and implementing great products
- Working knowledge and best practice of Finance Systems design in the context of ERP products. Ideally experience of Deltek - Maconomy, but also SAP, Oracle, Onestream, Microsoft 365 and Netsuite.
- Experience working with Product Management, Agile, Design Thinking, and Lean methodologies
- Willingness and desire to lead product teams that work across multiple disparate finance applications.
- Experience implementing at least one major ERP lifecycle project
- Demonstrable experience leading successful teams
- Actively support establishing and maturing the target operating model, including documenting processes and procedures
- Develop and mature relationship with the business, enhancing business confidence in the Enterprise Business Solutions team
- Strong leader, comfortable communicating to senior leadership and challenging existing paradigms
- Outstanding communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills, including the ability to clearly communicate technology concepts to non technology personnel
- Take ownership for issues and work to resolve them in a practical manner which aligns with the strategic architecture
- Customer focused, committed to excellence, solid attention to detail and a great teammate
Why join Kantar?
We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion, and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, nobody knows people better than Kantar.
And because we know people, we like to make sure our people are looked after as well. Kantar is committed to supporting the wellbeing of our colleagues and their family members in order to create a positive working environment where we can all thrive.
Benefits include:
- 25 days holidays plus your birthday off
- Volunteer leave- 2 days (paid) to give back
- Flexible hybrid working
- Private Medical Cover (Bupa)
- Pension (6% company contribution)
- Life assurance (4 x base salary) and income protection (75% base salary minus state benefits)
- Enhanced parental leave
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loans
- Award-winning flexible benefits
Equality of opportunity for our people is our highest priority and we encourage our people to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage our colleagues to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all, and we’re flexible in our approach to ensure people feel included and accepted. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers, and communities, which is why we welcome applications from all background and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not a perfect fit, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Location
London, More London PlaceUnited Kingdom
Kantar Rewards Statement
At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.
We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.
We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.
We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.
KANTAR
https://www.kantar.com/north-america
London, United Kingdom
Chris Jansen
Unknown / Non-Applicable
10000+ Employees
Company - Private
Research & Development
1993
