Advert Sage is a global company with a local heart. The market leader for cloud-based accounting, financials, enterprise management, people, and payroll software, we empower the world's business heroes-from single-person startups to large enterprises. Our people are passionate and positive. We inspire our colleagues to serve business builders everywhere and champion their success. As a FTSE 100 company with 14,000 colleagues across 24 countries, we do business the right way, while giving back to our local communities through the Sage Foundation. Be Sage, build on. Job Description Are you looking for an exciting finance leadership role in the UK's largest listed software and technology business? Due to an internal promotion, we are looking for a Finance Director with a strong commercially background to lead our UKI business from our Newcastle head office. This role will have you at the heart of Sage's journey to transform itself into a great SaaS business, and forms part of our UKI Executive leadership team. The UKI is Sage's 'home-turf' so this is going to be a big challenge for the right person. There is so much more to this role, so please reach out for more information and a confidential chat. LI-FM1 Key Responsibilities We are looking to recruit a Finance Director to be part of the local executive team; to be a trusted financial advisor to the senior executives and deliver quality financial support for the business. This role will require the individual to:
• Form a strong partnership with the UKI Managing Director and their leadership team. A trusted advisor and hands on partner to support and challenge the business to achieve maximum results
• Effectively use financial information to provide the business with better insight into business performance and trajectory and opportunities for growth
• Drive optimisation of P&L performance and manage to Sage financial metrics
• Lead improvements in delivering business predictability through a robust forecasting and review framework
• Ensure high quality and consistent financial reporting to the business and the Sage Group
• Support the business in developing and executing on an effective business strategy; and in the planning and budgeting process
• Enhance finance capability through effective management and coaching of the existing business partnering and performance reporting teams and identify opportunities to optimise the team's effectiveness
• Build and review business cases and ensure that the right commercial decisions are made for the Sage Group
• Help build a resourcing framework and focus on placing investment towards areas with the highest propensity for growth and profitability; help develop sales metrics which clearly identify productivity opportunities
• Play an active role in driving for change and continuous improvement in the business and within finance; identify areas that require improvement and look to disrupt
• Collaborate effectively with other functional finance leaders to ensure that financial processes are running effectively and that the country meets internal Sage governance and also external compliance guidelines; play a role in bringing together the local finance team across all pillars
• Play a key collaborative and active role as a member of the Sage Finance Business Partnering team across all regions and Global Commercial Finance team
• Director for the local legal entities Skills, know-how and experience Must have:
• Experience at Senior Director or VP level in commercial finance roles in the technology sector
• Commercially aware with proven ability to identify and drive strategy
• Able to partner with and influence senior non-finance business execs
• Capability to operate effectively in a matrixed environment
• Excellent communication and people engagement skills
• Proactive and solution focused with strong attention to detail
• Demonstrable ability to act as a business advisor
• Strong people management skills; making people engagement and career growth a top priority
• Able to deal with ambiguity where required
• Comfortable at operating in a high growth and fast paced environment
• Strong intellect and attention to detail
• Resilience and ability to operate in a changing business environment Preferred:
• Expertise in financial modelling (strong Excel skills required) and some experience in investment appraisal
• Experience in software related business specifically in revenue growth & pricing Technical / professional qualifications:
• Degree
• Qualified Accountant, or equivalent degree preferred Key stakeholders:
• UKI MD and Senior Exec team
• Shared Services Function
• Global and Functional Finance Teams Direct reports: Local business partners and performance reporting teams