British CouncilHiring for Head Finance COE at Noida, Uttar Pradesh Full Time

Location: Noida, South Asia, IN

Company: British Council

The British Council builds connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and other countries through arts and culture, education and the English language.

We work in two ways – directly with individuals to transform their lives, and with governments and partners to make a bigger difference for the longer term, creating benefit for millions of people all over the world. We help young people to gain the skills, confidence and connections they are looking for to realise their potential and to participate in strong and inclusive communities. We support them to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications. Our work in arts and culture stimulates creative expression and exchange and nurtures creative enterprise. We connect the best of the UK with the world and the best of the world with the UK.

These connections lead to an understanding of each other’s strengths and of the challenges and values that we share. This builds trust between people in the UK and other nations which endures even when official relations may be strained. We work on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2019-20 we connected with 80 million people directly and with 791 million overall, including online and through our broadcasts and publications.

Job Title: Head – Finance Centre of Excellence SSC

Purpose of job:
A critical element of this role will be to assist the Head SSC Finance Services in developing the culture to promote service delivery excellence within the Finance Transactional service delivery incorporating the requirements from internal and external stakeholders.

Role context

The Head of the Finance Centre of Excellence (COE) will oversee the centre of excellence service delivery from SSC and be responsible for receiving transitioned/migrated services from the BC network . The role holder will play a key role in, stabilising and improving performance of service delivery . The role holder will line manage Senior Managers / Strand leads for COE Services

Key aim of the role will be to standardise and enhance the quality of COE service delivery aligned to business needs, strengthening the teamwork, developing service delivery initiatives to enhance the scope of services of SSC.

Main opportunities/challenges for this role

Accountabilities, responsibilities and main duties:
Manages delivery of Finance COE Services from SSC as per services defined in the Under Pinning Contract ( UPC) and ensures quality through implementation of Quality Assurance Framework within service delivery:

Set up governance of COE services for performance monitoring, quality standards/ SLA defined in the U-P C / Quality Assurance Framework and is accountable for compliances of minimum standards of Finance Control & Compliance Framework.

Ensure procedures and effective controls are in place for COE service delivery.

Collaborates with Finance Corporate team in UK to improve effectiveness and compliances with existing and revised financial processes across service delivery

Manages new transitions with support of Transition team post approval of Finance Change Governance Forum and services stabilised as per transition timelines and budgets.

Ensures Business continuity / disaster recovery plans are successfully implemented and tested regularly with Business Assurance team.

Identifies and manages risk impacting service delivery, finances, statutory requirement and reputational loss for SSC and British Council.

Demonstrates agility to align service delivery to changing business requirements and to enhance Customer /User experiences by implementation of continuous improvement and transformational initiatives.

Drives continuous performance improvement to achieve parity between internal performance and external benchmarks for transactional services.

Knowledge Management and Retention

Implements Knowledge management framework as per British Council standards.

Service delivery processes are documented and reviewed regularly to ensure its appropriateness

Create environment for cross skilling the team members for critical transactional services delivered by SSC

Staff management and development

Teams are managed in accordance with relevant HR practices at SSC /British Council.

Adapts and implements resource management procedures and standards across transaction service delivery.

Sets up an efficient and effective service delivery model to cater to diverse service requests from the regional network within global time zones.

Implements initiatives in collaboration with HR to have an engaged and motivated workforce at SSC.

Apply agreed Retention policies in consultation with HR to ensure that staff turnover is managed at or below local averages.

Coaches and Mentors teams on a regular basis for empowerment and accountability

Develops succession planning within the teams for un-interrupted delivery of service

Stakeholder engagement

Effectively manages relationships with internal and external stakeholders including suppliers of services etc for predictable service delivery.

Leverages available platforms for keeping stakeholders engaged with areas of finance transactional service delivery aligned to their business goals.

Creates collaborations with GPO, regional teams, UK Corporate Team to improve effectiveness and compliances to financial processes

Provides regular performance updates to appropriate stakeholders.

Transformation and Change Management

Lead and support business process owners including identification, proposal development and other pursuit activities for transformation of finance processes.

Overseeing engagement and collaboration with GPO/ GIS and internal stakeholders to achieve the agreed transformational change objectives

Identification and management of risks. challenges associated to implementation of transformational changes through change management

Qualifications

C.A or MBA Finance from a premier institute

Role specific knowledge and experience

Financial Management and HR Management

Further Information

Pay Band – 8

Contract Type – Indefinite

Department/Country- Finance COE/ India – Noida

Closing Date (Time) –21st Jun 22 (IST -23:59)

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