Financial Controller London, England
Job description
About Geeks
Geeks is an innovative technology company with an exceptional portfolio of clients and awards. We are a Microsoft Gold Partner and provide digital transformation services to scale-up SMEs.
We don't make software. We make easyware, quickware, solutionware, awesomeware, the ware that makes the world better. We are the fixers, the doers, the problem solvers. We make technology and it makes us. If you cut us, we bleed innovation.
Working here is fun and playful, and at the same time technically challenging and professional.
We reward ambition, technical excellence, and continued learning. If you share these values, we want you to join us. To learn more, check our Facebook and LinkedIn pages.
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Ops Director
Full time | Permanent (£70,000 - £80,000 per annum)
Are you curious to grow our operational efficiency to deliver kick-ass client value?
Do you have the courage to break the mould and create a far-reaching impact?
Are you committed to collaborating with various stakeholders and embracing their geekiness?
If so, Geeks have an exciting opportunity for an Ops Director who will play a vital role in our 2023 growth plans and beyond. You will drive the implementation roadmap for operational transformation and take our software project delivery to the next level based on our client intimacy model and with a data-driven approach. This role is accountable for optimising the utilisation of resources as well as supporting employee satisfaction and engagement.
As part of the SLT, you will collaborate closely with the broader leadership team, Geeks at every level and report directly to the COO. The ideal Geek will have the courage to champion continuous improvement and strategic talent management. Beyond this, you will be the positive driving force embedding governance and best practice into the company culture through processes and implementing, maintaining and improving to ISO9001 and 27001 standards.
You will be surrounded by a team of supportive, high-energy, and driven geeks who will share your commitment to collaboration, curiosity to grow and courage to create real value.
If you agree that the challenge isn’t technology, but change and you are powered by curiosity, courage and commitment, this might be your opportunity to be a geek, grow fast and become a leader. Apply now or contact our talent team to learn more about the role.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities & Outcomes: Enrich & Deliver business plans
Success Metrics: P&L / Business Plan Execution
Operational Oversight: Driven by a passion for consistency and stability, the Ops Director designs and oversees operations that offer unerring quality. Their knack for creating clarity out of chaos ensures projects transition seamlessly from ideation to execution. The Ops Director ensures top-notch operational quality, aligning services to cater to specific client needs. Their role is pivotal in seamlessly transitioning projects from ideation to execution and ensuring that our team is set up and supported to deliver value that the client sees.
Collaborative Leadership: Embodying the role of a true filter and translator, the Ops Director bridges communication gaps between departments, ensuring a cohesive strategy and a harmonious working environment. The Ops Director is a catalyst of team collaboration efforts. They focus on diverse team composition, proactively addressing potential dysfunctions, and fostering a unified working environment.
Resource Allocation & Planning: With a natural ability to lead and manage, the Ops Director aligns team skills with project needs, maximizing both project delivery quality and employee engagement.
Strategic Planning & Forward-Thinking: Exemplifying the DNA of a problem-solver, the Ops Director breaks down our ambitious 3-year vision into actionable and trackable objectives, ensuring Geeks Ltd is always on the path of evolution. Ensuring resource optimisation and proactive growth planning. Strong Change Management skills and foresight to bring together cross-functional teams to deliver our own Digital Evolution at pace.
Governance & Compliance: As the guardian of organisational clarity, Geeks Ops Director will bring consistency through our Service and organisational design. They will uphold the ISO9001 and 27001 standards, including Cyber Essentials the Ops Director oversees audits, ensuring compliance with industry benchmarks and client expectations. As well as uphold the strategic partnership qualifications with Microsoft and AWS and any future strategic partnerships.
Financial Management: Their ability to see the big picture coupled with an eye for detail ensures a robust P&L oversight. The Ops Director ensures fiscal responsibility, profit plan compliance, and financial efficiency. Through monitoring and close collaboration with Geeks Financial Controller.
Risk & Legal Oversight: The Ops Director systematically monitors business risks, ensuring compliance with legal governance and maintaining operational integrity.
Strategic Talent Management: Prioritising talent alignment, the Ops Director ensures consistency in the Geeks message across all processes and leads initiatives related to talent acquisition, development, and retention in close collaboration with Director of People. Understanding that growth and control can co-exist, the Ops Director champions training programs with our Director of People, Head of Academy and initiatives that ensure Geeks Ltd stays on the industry's cutting edge.
Brand Consistency & Thought Leadership: The Ops Director takes responsibility for brand assurance and thought leadership in our operations, setting the pace in breaking conventional boundaries to offer unparalleled client value that is translated into testimonials, case studies and content that can be used by our Marketing & Sales functions to support our brand.
Required personal qualities
Driven and pro-active You love action and enjoy a high pace. You naturally assume responsibility and cannot just sit back. You do not give up until you have achieved the goals.
Agile and adaptable You see change as something positive, an opportunity to grow. You thrive in dynamic environments.
Required skills
Engaging style and ability to collaborate and influence a variety of stakeholders at every level. You can explain ideas and concepts concisely and succinctly. You know what to say, when to say, and how to say. You minimise misunderstandings.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
A data-driven mind with the ability to solve complex problems in a proactive manner.
Highly organised and able to prioritise multiple projects.
Business acumen Our passion is to enable and accelerate our clients' adoption of technology, to be able to do that we need to work within their business constraint (time, budget, scope). You need to be really good at adapting your solutions to the clients' needs
Analytical problem-solving [archived] You are not easily overwhelmed by the complexity. You can break complex problems down into small and manageable components. You are quick to spot relationships between things and ideas.
Solid commercial and financial awareness.
Leadership A leader is someone who has skills worthy of followership. Adept at situationally measuring a scenario to influence and get the best out of a team.
Change Management Adept at managing complex change and bringing together vision + skills + motivating teams + resources + action plans to delivery complex transformations at scale and pace
Analytical problem-solving You are not easily overwhelmed by the complexity. You can break complex problems down into small and manageable components. You are quick to spot relationships between things and ideas.
Required experience / qualifications
Hands-on experience of project management.
Proven experience in leading impact-driven business transformation initiatives and change management processes at scale and pace.
Experience leading and motivating high-performing teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
