Head of Group Finance Systems – Hybrid - #1706032

Join Imperial Brands, a FTSE-listed global FMCG powerhouse, home to around 26,000 talented individuals and generating an impressive £30 billion in annual revenues across over 100 countries. As the Head of Group Finance Systems, you will take the helm of our diverse finance systems, including IBM Cognos Controller, PR+, MicroStrategy, and Anaplan, ensuring their effectiveness and stability. This pivotal role empowers our global finance function, providing confidence to senior finance leadership through robust system outputs and processes.

In this dynamic position, you will lead a team of analysts and collaborate with leaders across various markets, factories, and our corporate center. Your leadership will extend to managing relationships with external stakeholders, including IT partners, software vendors, and auditors. Driving successful transformation is key, as you shape the future of our world-class Group Finance function, support Project Unify's ERP upgrade, and optimize our Global Business Services function. Join us in this exciting journey to lead and innovate within a broad finance agenda.

Principle Accountabilities

• Identify and review key finance system processes, enhance resilience, and ensure contingencies are in place whilst also Identify and mitigate risks within finance systems, ensuring robust financial data.
• Develop and maintain a robust approach for group finance systems, and ensure timely upgrades of finance systems, develop and manage a roadmap for future upgrades, and engage stakeholders proactively.
• Drive a performance-based culture across your team, support delivery against objectives, and develop talent as well as role modelling Imperial Brands Leadership behaviours, engaging team members and stakeholders proactively.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand their system needs, build strong relationships, and support ongoing development.
• Manage user experience, design and deliver engagement plans, and improve self-sufficiency across the business.
• Support the ‘one Finance’ strategy, drive continuous improvement, and enable Imperial’s transformation agenda.
• Lead on Finance Transformation topics, including the Unify S-4 Hana implementation, and support the wider finance transformation agenda

Skills and Experience Required

• A qualified Accountant (ACCA, ACA, or CIMA) with extensive experience in a similar large, complex matrix business environment.
• Expertise in IFRS and experience in a listed Group technical financial reporting role.
• Demonstrable leadership skills, adept at managing and supporting both direct and indirect finance teams, fostering a cohesive and engaged team environment.
• Ability to influence a positive working culture, build the right team for the future, and drive project and change management initiatives with high impact.
• Ability to translate complex, specialist, and technical topics into understandable language for non-specialists.
• Strong commercial awareness to support the business with appropriate system solutions.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and many extras including a great pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement and hybrid/flexible working opportunities as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at [email protected] to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 119 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.