Marks Sattin
Finance Transformation Consultant
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Our client, a leading UK property management and real estate services business is undertaking a major transformation of its Finance function alongside a Workday implementation.
About the Role
They are looking for an experienced Finance Transformation / Operating Model Consultant to lead the review and restructuring of a c200-300-person Client Accounting function across multiple UK locations. This is a specialist Client Accounting transformation assignment rather than a generic ERP implementation role. The successful individual will assess the current structure, identify opportunities to simplify and centralise the function, and design a scalable future-state operating model.
Responsibilities
- Lead an end-to-end current-state review of the Client Accounting function.
- Assess organisational design, reporting lines, spans of control, headcount and capability.
- Design the future-state Client Accounting operating model.
- Identify opportunities for restructuring, consolidation, centralisation and shared services.
- Review Client Accounting / Property Accounting processes, including service charge accounting and reporting.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual activity and improve reporting, controls and data quality.
- Make recommendations around headcount, seniority, team structure and future recruitment requirements.
- Work alongside the Workday implementation partner to ensure the people, process and organisational model supports the technology transformation.
- Assess the potential to centralise Treasury and other appropriate finance activities.
- Work with senior Finance, HR and transformation stakeholders to develop an achievable implementation plan.
- Produce a clear transformation roadmap / Statement of Work covering priorities, deliverables, dependencies and implementation.
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Qualifications
The key requirement is demonstrable experience of restructuring a sizeable Client Accounting / Property Accounting function.
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Required Skills
- Personally led the restructuring or transformation of a large Client Accounting team — ideally 100+ people.
- Strong Property Management / Real Estate finance experience.
- Detailed understanding of Client Accounting and Service Charge Accounting.
- Experience redesigning finance operating models, organisational structures and team hierarchies.
- Delivered significant organisational change, including changes to headcount, roles, processes and capability.
- Experience improving finance functions with high volumes of junior / transactional resource.
- Experience of centralisation, shared services or SSC/GBS design.
- Strong senior stakeholder management and the ability to take an operating model from diagnosis through to implementation.
Location: London / Hybrid, with occasional travel to UK offices
Duration: 6–9 months initially, with potential to extend
Day Rate: £700-1000 Outside IR35
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