Opportunity Engagement Specialist

Opportunity Engagement Lifecycle-Centre of Excellence Level

The COE Manager is a professional with an excellent knowledge of their region. Also, will act as a critical liaison between the team, US Finance leadership, GDS leadership, Global Finance and other stakeholders. The role requires good people and organisation skills as well as clearly demonstrating the Trusted Business Advisor competencies. It requires good leadership skills and experience in driving successful change initiatives, too. A successful candidate will work with the COE team to help deploy the model in region, ensuring the team are focused on delivering an excellent service to our client teams and will ensure the COE team is successful and the team remains agile in a fast paced and changing environment. The COE Manager will ensure high standards of financial management and expertise across all portfolios and will be part of the overall Markets Finance community ensuring collaboration with the Portfolio Finance Advisor and Global Account Finance Advisor communities.

In this role you will ensure an excellent client server experience and be responsible for ensuring good quality service is delivered. You will foster a positive and collaborative teaming relationship with the Onshore and GDS Markets Finance teams. This role will include ensuring excellent relationships with other support functions and also have a good understanding of both risk and tax implications to the benefit of the wider COE team.

The role will include having a number of direct reports and be instrumental in developing a high performing team whilst having counselling responsibilities on a one to one basis. You will manage the team and assist in driving recruitment efforts to build out a highly effective team. Collaboration with the other Market Finance Leaders will be essential in the success of the overall structure. Creating and deploying a training strategy to strengthen the teams skillset to provide development opportunities for the whole team, as well as promotion of knowledge sharing and success stories will be essential to allow the team to overcome challenges across the COE and Finance community. You will actively participate in building the COE team to ensure they are agile and flexible in their attitude to enable them to deliver a quality service to the business requirements this will include remaining fully connected to the team in the front line to ensure all issues and concerns are dealt with swiftly and effectively.

Taking the lead to shape new solutions and implement best practice which will provide greatest benefit to the client servers. Identifying improvement initiative requirements and then create a solution to remediate swiftly as and when needed.