Description:
The Senior Manager, Finance Transformation will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of WPP's global finance function. You will lead and drive significant, large-scale transformation initiatives, operating with a high degree of autonomy and strategic influence. Your core responsibilities will include:
- Strategic Program Leadership: Lead and strategically drive complex, multi-year global finance transformation programs and initiatives across group, agency, and shared service center levels, moving beyond support to direct ownership and delivery.
- Executive Strategy & Communication: Proactively identify strategic priorities, develop comprehensive solutions, and design compelling content for direct presentation to C-Suite, Board-level stakeholders, and global partners, significantly influencing strategic direction and investment decisions.
- End-to-End Execution Management: Design, lead, and oversee the end-to-end execution of multiple concurrent, large-scale transformation workstreams, ensuring the successful delivery of critical milestones, managing interdependencies, and navigating complex stakeholder landscapes and tight timelines with a focus on enterprise-wide impact.
- Governance & Risk Oversight: Provide strategic oversight and direction to the PMO function, ensuring robust program governance, informed agenda setting for executive forums, and the proactive identification and mitigation of enterprise-level risks across the entire transformation portfolio.
- Executive Advisory: Serve as a primary strategic advisor to the Global Finance Transformation Program Director and other senior executives, providing expert counsel, proactive risk management, and strategic insights across the entire transformation portfolio, often acting as a delegated authority on key decisions.
- Team & Culture Development: Actively shape team culture, fostering a high-performance and innovative environment, and champion best practices across the organization.
- Talent Development: Formally mentor, develop, and lead a team of finance transformation professionals, fostering their growth, career progression, and building high-performing project teams capable of delivering complex initiatives.
- Innovation & Best Practices: Proactively identify, evaluate, and champion the adoption of emerging trends, technologies (e.g., AI, GenAI, RPA, advanced analytics), and leading practices in finance to drive competitive advantage, operational efficiency, and innovation across WPP.
- Consulting & Change Enablement: Leverage extensive business consulting acumen and a proven track record of driving significant, sustainable change within highly complex, global matrix organizations, often managing initiatives that span multiple operating companies and geographies.
- Strategic Workshop Facilitation: Design and facilitate highly impactful, executive-level workshops across diverse global agency stakeholders, driving consensus on strategic direction, critical decisions, and complex problem resolution.
- Advanced Governance & Reporting: Establish and lead comprehensive program governance frameworks for multi-faceted transformation initiatives, ensuring robust decision-making, transparent communication to Board and C-suite, and compelling strategic storytelling that aligns diverse stakeholders globally.
- Executive Stakeholder Management: Proactively cultivate and manage strategic relationships with C-suite executives, global agency leaders, and critical external partners, influencing outcomes, building coalitions for significant change initiatives, and navigating complex political landscapes to ensure program success.