Director of Transactional Finance and Shared Services

About Spencer Ogden SO is a global recruitment business operating in the sustainable energy, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. We specialise in contract recruitment in technical roles in engineering and construction and project management. We also do permanent recruitment in the same sectors. Spencer Ogden is private equity backed. The business has 11 offices across six countries in APAC, Europe and The United States and generates global revenues of 150m. Role Overview: The Director Transactional Finance and Shared Services will be responsible for all aspects of transaction processing in the business. The most complex area is ''pay and bill'' i.e. the process of paying our contractors and invoicing our customers. Some contractors are payrolled by SO and some are paid via management companies. . Currently finance sits regionally and is in the process of being centralised. There are therefore local pay and bill and credit control teams. This is therefore a new centralised function that is being set up, with the opportunity to inject some expert knowledge and experience, to help drive business outcomes and provide better service to support our clients and contractors. Part of the role will be to shape and form the new team, and depending on when the individual joins, influence the finer details of the structure and hire key direct reports. The restructure is not a full offshoring as the eventual solution will be built around an existing team. There is a team ..... full job details .....