Head of Financial Shared Services

The role will take on responsibility for the Accounts Payable team, directly managing the Accounts Payable Team Leader and working with with all team members as required. This team provides agreed services for a number of the Smiths Detection sites. Working with the divisional HQ team and local finance teams, this role will review the appropriateness of and achievement of KPIs and targets to ensure that these encourage the right priorities for the team and that customer satisfaction and quality of delivery are elevated.

There are also Accounting, Reporting and Controls (ARC) analysts reporting into a number teams globally who are co-located at the Pune site. This role will support the development of these Finance team members so that the Division can continue to support the assignment of these individuals to work with the local teams. This will include arranging training, learning and development, and acting as a dotted line manager for the individuals for aspects of work which are best dealt with onsite. This role will initiate and manage recruitment where necessary to maintain an appropriate level of capabilities and resourcing within the team. This role will also ensure that individuals can support other teams in the case of the absence of primary team members, and to allow team members to swap roles if appropriate, to broaden the experience of team members.

This role will be key to building a reputation for high quality delivery and success by Finance Shared Services, supporting career paths of team members and improving structures and processes to make the SSC a function that businesses are keen to work with and that individuals wish to join and stay in and to develop their careers at Smiths Detection.

Ensure service delivery and stakeholder alignment:

Team management:

Operating effectiveness, process improvement and quality assurance: