OOP - Region Finance Director

Job Introduction

Sodexo have an exciting opportunity for a Region Finance Director to join the Energy & Resources leadership team in Aberdeen.

The successful candidate will drive performance through financial leadership and partnership with the business. In addition, the successful candidate will contribute to the leadership team and help leverage segment and regional expertise.

Role Responsibility

Providing strong commercial expertise, financial engineering and contractual acumen to provide financial support to sales and commercial processes, as well as contributing to the negotiation of complex deals, and ensuring contractual protections

Providing contract performance analysis and supporting action plans to drive execution and performance including negotiation of contract renewals & claim negotiations

Providing challenge and playing a role as custodian of the group’s assets and resources

Leading the finance team, managing and coaching team members in their growth and performance as well as ensuring a visible and measurable contribution to the profitability of the portfolio of contracts

Supporting global segment CFO in implementing key global initiatives at regional level to ensure execution and delivery of segment performance objectives:

• Driving delivery of initiatives and profitability (e.g. mobilization, driving comparable unit growth rates (CUGR), turn around loss-making contracts, implement retail opportunities and more generally driving growth & profitability
• Identifying and driving change based on results
• Driving initiatives to improve LGO and accelerate receivable collections

Ensuring financial discipline in investment decisions, application of key right terms and group delegation of authorities (DOA); building business cases for segment OPEX and CAPEX commercial investments; using ROI and financial monitoring of mobilisations and new contracts to drive learnings

Ensuring all group and region finance policies, processes and procedures are known, understood and consistently applied in the segment to support the achievement of the group’s financial objectives; supporting the delivery of the group finance’s mission

Contributing to the development and delivery of the region segment strategy as a member of the region segment executive committee; including, forecasts and financial trajectories and consequent priorities

Partnering with region FP&A to provide relevant analytics forecasts variance analyses

Undertaking supplementary financial analyses to develop segment strategy and Segment ambition and performance

The Ideal Candidate

• More than ten years related professional experience
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, as well as contractual/risk management discipline
• Global mindset with international experience and/or exposure advantageous
• Results driven and willing to challenge as part of the leadership team and not just finance leader
• Ability to work with commercial and operational teams in building solutions
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to respect deadlines
• Flexible and pragmatic, able to deal with complexity
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, strong partnering capabilities with senior management
• Good listening, negotiation and influencing skills
• Strong culture of team support/team work and business advancement (in areas of, solution finding, or development-oriented risk management), and experience in managing a team
• Experience in change management
• Fluency in English required, any other language is an advantage

Package Description

• Competitive salary
• Attractive performance bonus
• Pension
• Car allowance
• Flexible benefit scheme
• Training/development opportunities

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 37,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their age, disability, gender, transgender, marital or family status, race or ethnicity, religious belief of sexual orientation are welcome to and included within our business.