Head of Finance - Office & Production

Head of Finance - Office & Production

Contract: Office & Production (Finance)

Location: Surrey

Hours of work: 40

Contract Type: Permanent

As the Head of Finance for Office & Production, you will be instrumental in driving the financial strategy and performance across a £700m business.

Job Description

Collaborating closely with the Finance Director, your role will focus on optimising financial planning, analysis, and implementing improvement projects across Contracts, Business Units, and Segments.

You'll work at the core of our operations, helping to shape and execute a path towards delivering ambitious financial goals, enhancing cash flow, and improving overall performance.

In this senior position, you will liaise with both the Office & Production teams and the ISS UK&I Central Finance Team, ensuring alignment and consistency across all segments.

This role offers the chance to influence key financial decisions and drive meaningful improvements across the business.

You'll lead initiatives that streamline processes, improve financial reporting, and ensure the business is well-positioned to meet its strategic goals.

Your ability to work collaboratively, provide insightful financial analysis, and implement solutions will be critical to strengthening our cash flows and driving sustainable growth.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the financial future of a key division within ISS and make a significant impact on overall business performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Take a pivotal role in using data to facilitate forward looking business projections and be part of management decisions on what need to prioritised along with relevant actions
• Own a limited number yet mission critical initiatives that will support performance growth across the business
• Proactively identify and flag ideas for improved business performance driven through data insights and liaising with senior leadership to realise opportunities
• Collect data to create a MI overview of the big picture which can be articulated to senior and executive management in clear and concise business updates and presentations
• Drive increased financial transparency, predictability and continuous improvements across the Segment, Business Unit and Contracts
• Generate consistent financial performance analysis, reviews and presentation across the business
• Seek opportunities to continuously improve our reporting accuracy, transparency and predictability
• Understand opportunities to improve cash performance and planning in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders
• Promote and support having a strong "team mindset" across the Finance community
• Develop valuable insight, benchmarking, analysis and modelling to help drive future financial performance and predictability

Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications

• Demonstrated track record of driving tangible results and business outcomes working with and for senior leaders
• Experience working within the field of financial business partnering, financial analysis, business improvement or similar with demonstrated tangible results
• Strong accounting skills and strong understanding of profit & loss, balance sheet and cash flow, including underlying drivers
• Experience in complex financial reporting preferably coupled with strong knowledge of financial systems and processes
• Experience in independently driving business improvement or transformation projects
• Experience working in a matrix organisation with many senior stakeholders
• Masters degree in Finance, Accounting or similar

The Company

ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it's hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #ISSGreatPeople #ISSTalent #PeopleMakePlace

ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste) religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.

If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team by emailing resourcing.team@uk.issworld.com

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