This is a Senior leadership role within a Group Finance in MPMS. Reporting directly to the CFO, this role will have a crucial part to play in the success of the business and delivery of a best-in-class finance function as part of finance leadership team. MPMS is a fast paced, and evolving business and your ability to drive change as part of the finance leadership team will be important.
Lead the end-to-end Shared Services Finance function, delivering efficient, scalable, and controlled finance operations across Financial Accounting, Management Reporting, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Procurement, Tax Support, and Financial Operations.
Drive process excellence, automation, and standardisation, while providing high-quality financial insight and optimising working capital. Build a strong and capable team that will work well with it’s stakeholders across MPMS’s business units and finance function.
The role will have a strong focus on continuous improvement, driving efficiency across finance processes and overseeing teams in UK, India and Australia. Given the large presence of this team in India, this role will also be part of India hub Leadership team.
Key Accountabilities and main responsibilitiesStrategic Focus
- Own and develop the financial control framework across the Group
- Develop and implement a roadmap to ensure all finance activities across the group adhere to the controls framework and follow consistent methodology.
- Contribute to the development of the finance technology roadmap, delivering processes and systems that drive high productivity and strong governance opportunities.
- Provide support to the budgeting and forecasting processes as required
- Strategic capability build at India GCC for Finance team and working closely with Finance SLT on India team members
Scope of Responsibilities
- Financial Accounting & Period Close (R2R)
- Management Accounting & Performance Reporting
- Accounts Payable (P2P)
- Accounts Receivable (O2C)
- Journal Processing & General Ledger
- Procurement Finance
- Tax Support & Compliance
- Financial Operations & Controls
Operational Management
Key Accountabilities
- Financial Control & Accounting
- Oversee processes spanning UK, Australia and India teams, ensuring consistency and accuracy of data across the divisional and regional reporting process
- Coordinate, monitor and deliver the reporting timelines across the finance team delivering a streamlined month end close process.
- Lead the preparation and presentation of divisional, entity and consolidated group financial reporting
- Ensure robust audit outcomes and control environment
- Engage and support the design and development of SOX requirements and processes
- Performance Insight & Business Support
- Provide management reporting, variance analysis, and actionable insights
- Standardise KPIs and reporting frameworks
- Support business decision-making and margin improvement
- Transactional Excellence (AP & AR)
- AP (P2P): Efficient invoice processing, payments, vendor management, and spend control
- AR (O2C): Billing, collections, cash application, and dispute resolution. Deliver KPI performance across AP and AR, ensuring accountability for service levels, timeliness, and quality outcomes.
- Operational Finance & Process Efficiency
- Lead journal processing, reconciliations, and general ledger integrity
- Optimise end-to-end processes through continuous improvement and change initiatives across RTR, PTP and OTC, including process optimisation, automation, and control enhancement.
- Drive automation and reduce manual intervention
- Improve close cycle times and operational efficiency
- Support tax reporting (corporate tax, GST/VAT, FBT) in partnership with Group Tax
- Ensure compliance across jurisdictions
- Ensure timely delivery of tax filings and adherence to regulatory and compliance requirements across all jurisdictions.
- Maintain strong governance and documentation
- Provide Strategic oversight to Procurement, Systems and global Tax teams based in India
- Oversee Procurement, Systems and tax team based in India, with functional alignment across overseas jurisdictions.
- Support, and continuous improvement initiatives to enable efficient operations and effective controls across jurisdictions
- Transformation & Continuous Improvement
- Lead finance transformation (automation, systems, AI enablement)
- Standardise and centralise processes across geographies
- Deliver productivity gains and cost efficiencies
People Leadership
- Successfully lead teams across UK, Australia and India through a regular cadence of communication and collaboration.
- Develop, lead, and maintain a high-performing, motivated team, which will include development, coaching, talent management and succession planning.
- Be a key member of the wider Finance Leadership Team, actively growing a high performing culture across the business and role modelling the MPMS values
- Manage and cultivate strong working relationships with FP&A, Tax, Procurement and Finance Systems teams.
Governance and Risk
- Provide strategic oversight of the Group Finance control and governance framework, ensuring strong financial controls, regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and consistent application of policies across all jurisdictions.
- Lead the identification, assessment, and mitigation of financial, operational, and compliance risks, partnering with Risk and Compliance teams to strengthen controls, enhance resilience, and support effective risk management across the finance function.
The above list of key accountabilities is not an exhaustive list and may change from time-to-time based on business needs.
Experience & Personal Attributes
- Relevant professional qualifications (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Big 4 trained but with extensive experience working in commerce as a Senior Finance executive managing financial operations
- 15-18 years of overall combined accounting and finance experience
- A strong communicator, who also inspires confidence and motivates others at different levels across the organisation.
- An experienced people leader able to select, retain, develop and inspire a high performing team
- Knowledge and experience in dealing within a regulatory environment, including a sound understanding of key regulatory regimes in the jurisdiction in which MPMS operates.
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to analyse information to identify the key issue/action and drive resolution.
- Flexible and responsive, able to work to tight deadlines within a global, complex and matrixed environment.
- Extensive financial accounting experience, working in a large corporate with multiple legal entities, divisions and cost centres
- Extensive knowledge of accounting principles and procedures
- A successful track record in design, delivery and improvement of financial close processes, financial reporting, and control.
- Previous experience mentoring and managing international team members
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