Finance Operations Director at Sage

To deliver best in class finance operations (record to report, order to cash, purchase to pay) in the Africa & Middle East Finance Shared Service Centre (FSSC) based in Johannesburg

Key Responsibilities Key accountabilities and decision ownership: (8 or 10 max)

• Direct accountability for the FSSC in Johannesburg
• Partner with Africa, Middle East and group finance teams, supporting them on improving financial performance and creating an efficient financial operating model
• Deliver customer, colleague & supplier centric FinOps processes and process experiences
• Deliver operational efficiencies by identifying and implementing opportunities for simplification and standardization of procedures.
• Partner with VP Financial Accounting, Reporting and Control to improve internal control environment to efficiently monitor transaction risk and financial exposure
• Deliver continuous process improvements through an operational / customer excellence framework Skills, know-how and experience:

Must have: (5 or 6 Max)

• Strong communication, influencing & coaching skills
• Experience of managing senior in-country finance stakeholders as customers
• Experience of running operational finance teams (RTR, PTP, OTC)
• Experience of delivering successful finance transformation initiatives
• Experience of Agile management of operational teams
• Innovative, open minded approach to finance process change

Preferred: (2 or 3 Max)

• Good understanding of Sage X3
• Experience of process innovation practices such as Design Thinking

Technical / Professional Qualifications

• Accountancy qualification required