Finance Operations Manager

Description:

Finance Operations Manager (Transformation-Focused)

Wakefield| £45,000-£55,000 | Hybrid

They don't want someone to run the process. They want someone to rebuild it.

This is a rare one. Our client, a long-established Wakefield business, isn't just looking for a safe pair of hands to keep transactional finance ticking over, they want someone who's spearheaded a system or process improvement project before and wants to do it again, on a bigger stage.

Think: legacy processes that need dragging into 2026, an appetite for automation that actually has budget behind it, and a finance function that's ready to be led rather than maintained.

You'll be:

Leading a system and process improvement transformation across transactional finance
Supporting management accounts and project accounts alongside the transformation work
Working directly with senior stakeholders who actually want your opinion, not just your output
Building something that outlasts you, processes, not just fixesYou'll need:

Strong transactional finance background with genuine transformation or system-change experience
The confidence to challenge "we've always done it this way"
Comfortable balancing hands-on delivery with longer-term project ownership
ERP/systems exposure is a strong plusWhy this one's worth your time: this is exactly the kind of role that's growing in demand as automation reshapes finance, someone has to lead that change, and right now, that's a career move, not a job title.

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