Market leading Australian businesses is in the market for an experienced Shared Services professional to lead their Accounts Payable & Receivable and financial reporting division.
They are renowned for their innovative solutions, commitment to excellence, and dedication to driving advancements within their industry. Having grown organically over the years, they are well positioned with blue-chip clients, a solid pipeline and a talented leadership team. They have an impressive company culture of inclusiveness, continuous improvement, personal development and offer strong career growth opportunities.
The role will be leading a team both on shore and off shore, and have a focus on team development & management, process improvement & drive cost efficiencies. If you have experience working for a large scale listed organisation overseeing a shared services division comprising of transactional accounting, we'd love to hear from you.
The Responsibilities:
Reporting directly into the Finance Director, you will be responsible for;
- Lead, mentor, develop transactional accounting services.
- Manage offshore vendor partners, and lead large offshore division.
- Manage senior stakeholder relationships across all divisions of the business
- Demonstrate leadership support for all departmental initiatives and organisational development activities, modelling expected behaviours to managers and staff to create a desired workplace culture
- Have a strategic approach to lowering business cost through shared services
- Lead high performing teams through coaching and mentoring, to build and grow operational capability
The successful applicant
- Previous experience as a Shared Services Leader within a business of similar scale and volume.
- Ability to develop relationships with senior stakeholders, both internally & externally.
- High attention to detail, excellent time management skills and a proactive approach to customers.
- Natural born leader, excellent communicator and proven process & change improvement and transformation.
