Head of Finance & Business Services Transformation

Job description

Head of Finance & Business Services Transformation Consulting
Shape the Future of Finance Transformation
We are seeking an experienced and commercially driven consulting leader to build and lead a high-growth Finance, Procurement and Shared Services Transformation Consulting practice.
This is a rare opportunity to join a newly established consulting business and play a pivotal role in shaping its strategy, propositions, market presence and growth. You will work with CFOs, Finance Directors, Chief Procurement Officers, COOs and Transformation Leaders to deliver large-scale finance, procurement, shared services and enterprise-wide cost transformation programmes.
Combining strategic advisory expertise with technology, AI and operational delivery capabilities, you will help clients achieve measurable business outcomes while building a market-leading consulting practice.
The Opportunity
As Head of Finance & Business Services Transformation Consulting, you will:

• Define and execute the vision, strategy and growth plan for the consulting practice.
• Build trusted relationships with senior executives across Public Sector, Financial Services and Utilities.
• Drive business development, sales origination and major bid pursuits.
• Lead complex transformation programmes from strategy through implementation and benefits realisation.
• Develop innovative propositions that combine advisory, AI, technology and managed service capabilities.
• Recruit, mentor and lead a high-performing consulting team.
• Own revenue growth, profitability and utilisation targets.

Key Responsibilities
Business Development & Growth

• Create and deliver the practice's go-to-market strategy.
• Develop relationships with CFOs, Finance Directors, CPOs and COOs.
• Identify, qualify and win high-value transformation engagements.
• Lead proposal development, commercial negotiations and competitive bids.
• Partner with account and sales teams to build consulting pipelines and expand client relationships.
• Represent the business through thought leadership, industry events and executive forums.

Client Engagement & Delivery

• Act as Executive Engagement Lead on major transformation programmes.
• Provide programme governance, financial oversight and risk management.
• Lead finance, procurement and shared services transformation initiatives.
• Deliver measurable outcomes including cost reduction, productivity improvement, revenue enhancement and working capital optimisation.
• Ensure consulting solutions align with scalable operational and managed service delivery models.

Practice Leadership

• Build and scale a market-leading consulting capability.
• Develop methodologies, frameworks, accelerators and repeatable assets.
• Drive innovation across AI, automation, data and digital transformation.
• Create thought leadership and market-facing propositions.
• Coach, develop and grow consulting talent.

What We're Looking For
Experience

• Significant experience leading large-scale, technology-enabled transformation programmes within a consulting environment.
• Proven track record in business development, sales origination and winning complex consulting engagements.
• Experience building and growing consulting practices or transformation functions.
• Strong executive presence and credibility with senior business leaders.
• Demonstrable success delivering AI-enabled and technology-driven transformation programmes.

Expertise
Finance Transformation

• FP&A, budgeting and forecasting
• Record-to-Report (R2R)
• Order-to-Cash (O2C)
• Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
• Treasury and working capital optimisation
• Financial controls and performance improvement

Shared Services & Operating Models

• Shared Services and Global Business Services (GBS)
• Target Operating Model (TOM) design
• Process optimisation and standardisation
• Business process re-engineering
• Performance management and KPI frameworks
• Organisational change and adoption

Key Attributes

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for building new businesses.
• Strong commercial acumen and consulting leadership capability.
• Outstanding stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strategic thinker with a results-oriented approach.
• Ability to balance client delivery, business development and practice leadership.

Qualifications
Essential

• ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent professional qualification.
• Consulting background or relevant transformation leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success in sales and business development.

Location: UK (Hybrid)
Sector Focus: Public Sector, Financial Services & Utilities
Level: Practice Leader / Consulting Director / Partner-Level Opportunity - £(phone number removed) + Bonus and Benefits
If you are a commercially minded transformation leader with a passion for helping organisations reimagine Finance, Procurement and Shared Services through technology, AI and operational excellence, we'd love to hear from you.

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Morgan Philips Group is a global talent solutions business that disrupts conventional thinking in executive search, recruitment and talent consulting. We operate in over 18 markets in Europe, North & South America, Asia, and the Middle East & Africa. We understand that the future is digital and social, so we embrace the latest technology, including video ads and CVs, as well as social recruiting. Our innovative services are tailored to the new world of work yet we do not lose sight of the fact that employees be they existing and potential are ultimately human beings.

We are committed to ensuring that all job applicants are treated equally, without discrimination because of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.

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