Finance Transformation Capability Lead

The Finance Transformation Capability Lead is responsible for designing, governing, and embedding the core capabilities that underpin a modern finance function across. This includes ownership of the TFW Finance Target Operating Model, the Finance Service Delivery Model, the enterprise-wide Finance Process Catalogue, and the Global Process Owner accountability framework, setting governance frameworks and serving as the main contact for process-related matters

The role leads as a global process owner (GPO)drives end-to-end standardisation of finance processes across multiple TfW entities, ensuring consistency, compliance, and operational excellence. It also partners closely with the Digital Finance Transformation Lead to embed technology, automation, and data-driven capabilities that streamline processes and strengthen controls.

Role responsibilities

• Governance Framework Ownership: Develop, own and maintain the Finance Governance Frameworks. Define decision rights, design governance forums, set standards, ensure adoption, and coordinate responses to internal and external audit queries, to ensure a consistent, controlled, and transparent operating environment that reduces risk and strengthens accountability.
• Finance Target Operating Model (TOM) Leadership: Lead the design and evolution of the Finance Target Operating Model with finance leaders to define roles, capabilities, data flows, and structures. To ensure the finance function is scalable, digitally enabled, and aligned with TfW's strategic objectives.
• Finance Service Delivery Model Design: Refresh and optimise the TfW Finance Service Delivery Model. Working with the Finance leadership set service-level frameworks, clarify responsibilities across shared services, CoEs, and retained finance, to deliver efficient, high-quality finance services with clear accountability and measurable performance.
• Global Finance Process Catalogue Ownership: Own the TfW Finance Process Catalogue. Define L1-L4 taxonomy, maintain documentation standards, and align with ERP, automation, and data models, to create a single source of truth that enables consistency, automation, and effective governance.
• Standardisation Across Multi-Entity Environment: Standardise and lead initiatives that leverage best practices, emerging technologies, and data analysis, driving ongoing optimisation of finance processes across all TfW Group entities. Identify variations, harmonise policies and controls, embed standardisation into systems templates, champion continuous process improvement enforce design principles, to reduce complexity, improve control effectiveness, and enable scalable digital transformation and ensuring processes remain efficient, compliant, and aligned with organisational needs

Do you have experience in Continuous improvement?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * A bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Business Administration, Finance, Accounting

• Certified Business Process Management (BPM) Professional
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale process transformation, standardisation, financial governance, controls and continuous improvement initiatives in a complex environment
• Deep expertise in Finance Transformation and finance operating models and service delivery models
• Proven experience standardising processes across multi-entity or multi-system environments
• Deep understanding of end-to-end finance processes and frameworks (COSO, SOX)

Welsh Language Skills

While not essential for this role, Welsh language skills would make a great addition to your application.

Pulled from the full job description

• Free or subsidised travel
• Employee discount
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car scheme

TfW support anyone who wants to learn Welsh or improve their skills. We offer online learning, classroom courses and funding attendance at local community courses. Equal Opportunities We're changing the way the transport industry looks. By celebrating and embracing differences, we're building a workforce that represents Wales. We need talented people from all backgrounds and cultures to bring their perspectives and experiences. Diverse teams make better decisions and drive innovation. Join us in transforming the way Wales travels." Who we are Transport for Wales is changing the way Wales travels, making sustainable transport the first choice. We're building a multimodal integrated transport network called the T Network, making it easier for people to travel by train, bus, walking, wheeling and cycling. We're a Disability Confident Leader. Let us know about any reasonable adjustments you may need in the recruitment process and as part of the role if you are successful.