Finance Director, Healthcare UK&I

Job Introduction

As Finance Director for the UK&I Healthcare segment, you’ll enable region segment performance through financial leadership and business support and partnership. 

As a member of the Regional Finance Leadership Team and Segment Executive Committee, you’ll provide strong commercial expertise, financial engineering and contractual acumen through an in-depth understanding of segment specific needs so as to provide financial support to sales and commercial processes, as well as contributing to the negotiation of complex deals, and ensuring contractual protections.

Reporting to the CEO, in this role you’ll primarily be responsible for delivering financial strategy for the business and managing financial risk. The successful candidate will have proven experience in financial planning, project management and programme control, creating financial models to enable winning bid solutions, forecasting and data analysis at a senior level.

Role Responsibility

Contributing to Regional financial leadership team and driving the performance of the Finance function and alignment of different dimensions within the Region

• Participating fully as a member of Regional Finance Leadership Team
• Ensuring all Group 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.
• Partnering with Region FP&A to provide relevant analytics forecasts variance analyses regarding region segment business, using Group standard templates and tools; support remediation plans and propose actions to increase profitability and cash flow.
• Personally role-modelling behaviours aligned with the Sodexo Group values (Service Spirit, Team Spirit and Spirit of Progress) and ethical principles (Loyalty, Respect for People, Transparency, Business integrity)

Enabling Segment performance through financial leadership and partnership for business support

• Supporting Global Segment Finance Head in implementing  key Global Segment initiatives at regional level to ensure execution and delivery of  Segment performance objectives
• Participating in contract design, management, negotiation of contract renewals, claim & overrun negotiation
• Ensuring financial discipline in regional investment decisions:  building (or validating) business cases for regional segment OPEX and CAPEX commercial investments; using factual ROI and monitoring achievements after the event to drive learnings
• Challenging business case financials as a member of Stage Gate Investment Taskforces

The Ideal Candidate

• Qualified accountant with great post qualification experience
• Ideally exposure to a complex, contract driven business
• Outstanding track record in influencing decision making and performance/profit improvement
• Prior experience critiquing and presenting investment cases
• A progressive track record within a blue-chip, well managed and ideally international business
• Prior experience of ensuring tight cost control in a competitive, low margin business
• Experience of government procurement and bid processes
• NHS or PFI experience

Package Description

Access to a variety of Sodexo benefits and discounts, flexible benefit fund, bonus, pension scheme and car allowance

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the 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.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.