Roles

There are a number of exciting opportunities across all of our modes of transport, including London Underground, Buses, Streets and Rail, plus a number of key roles supporting other operations and our professional services team. You will be expected to be fully embedded in the business and be a trusted and influential member of the team. We expect our Senior Finance Business Partners to shape strategic and operational decision making by providing insight, challenge and advice.

There are a variety of operational and project roles, however all will have significant budgets and require you to work collaboratively and cross-functionally. You will be expected to manage multiple conflicting agendas and ensure that you employ robust, timely and accurate financial information to drive decision making.

Reporting into a Head of Finance, you will be responsible for leading the provision of a customer focussed financial service and finance business partnering team ensuring business needs are met, alongside ensuring that decisions are effectively planned and executed and any risk is minimised. Your key stakeholders will be Operational and Project Directors and you will participate in the decision making process at operational and portfolio programme boards.

This is a senior level management role and is central in ensuring that TfL can deliver the Mayor’s manifesto commitment to increase value for money and improve commercial capability for the future.

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Working in our Group Financial Planning and Analysis team, directly supporting the CFO and the Executive Team the role will provide analysis and insight to drive forward and support the implementation of TfL’s financial strategy. Alongside this you will also provide thought leadership and develop TfL’s analytical capabilities, reporting and processes around working capital and cash flow management, which is one of our biggest priorities. This is not your typical reporting and analytical role, you’ll be expected to be a true business partner, develop the knowledge and relationships that allow you to initiative, agree, drive and deliver complex projects within our context.

You’ll be the Finance Lead on working capital improvement initiatives, introducing fit for purpose KPIs and analysis so your previous experience of working with procurement organisations, shared service centres, develop actionable plans and helping to shape the working capital management strategies will prove critical to your success in this role. You will also be required to get involved and lead other improvement projects as part of the wider Group Finance and CFO Finance function. We are a cash business and defining and embedding a cash culture in everything we do will be key to the success of our financial strategy and releasing resources to invest in growing and improving our network.

Reporting into the Group Finance Director – the Statutory CFO, you will be responsible for developing an in depth understanding of end to end business processes that drive the cash inflows and outflows in our organisation, providing recommendations grounded in facts and robust data analysis to drive improvements to our cash and working capital management practices.

This is a senior level leadership role and is central in bringing increased focus and energy into the cash agenda, playing a key role in developing and championing a cash culture throughout the organisation.

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Responsible for driving multi million pound value and assurance from a TfL cost base of £10 billion and an external revenue stream of £4.5 billion. Engagement responsibility will be with a large and complex stakeholder group (both internal and external) with diverse objectives, including and up to TfL Board level and external executive level including the Audit and Assurance Committee. The post holder must be able to develop a controls and assurance strategy for TfL comparable to the best in class public and private sector organisations both in the UK and globally.

You’ll need to build, develop and lead a high performing team of industry-leading finance and control specialists to design, implement and enhance the control processes and structures across the complete range of all TfL’s operations. The post holder will be responsible for challenging and educating senior finance managers and Directors across all disciplines and Business Units, and helping the CFO and Board to deliver a TfL risk, controls and assurance framework that is best in class in the UK public sector.

Reporting into the Head of Finance Controls & Systems you will be responsible for the creation and validation of an assurance, compliance and ethics framework across all TfL Business Units that aligns financial controls and operational controls through a revised pan TfL policy network. You will provide proactive guidance and support for all senior managers (finance and operational) to manage the risk exposure consequences across all TfL legal entities, and drive enhanced assurance for all financial statements, especially revenue collection (£4.5 billion) and cost processing and validation (£10 billion) Your key stakeholders will be Finance Directors and Chief Officers within TfL.

This is a senior level leadership role and is central in ensuring that TfL can deliver the Mayor’s manifesto commitment to increase value for money and improve commercial capability for the future.

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The Finance Controls & Systems team in Group Finance is responsible for the design, development and Business support of TfL’s enterprise wide/corporate systems including Finance, Procurement and Treasury. We work closely with our key stakeholders to understand their needs and then manage a range of projects to meet those needs.
You’ll need to ensure that the overall performance of SAP Finance applications meets business requirements. The post holder will be responsible for challenging and educating senior finance managers and Directors across all disciplines and Business Units in the standard use of SAP ERP.

Reporting into the Head of Finance Controls & Systems you will be responsible for providing SME input into projects relating to Finance systems and support implementations and transitions into BAU. You will ensure our Finance systems use SAP standard as much as possible to enable us to leverage the future capabilities of SAP S4/Hana. This is a senior level leadership role and is central in ensuring that TfL can deliver the Mayor’s manifesto commitment to increase value for money and improve commercial capability for the future.

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The Legal Entity Controller will be key to developing and driving improvements in the technical accuracy and insightfulness of the Group’s divisional financial reporting. Pivotal to this role will be developing standardised processes and internal reports for our actual and forecast divisional balance sheets that enable senior leadership teams to make informed and insightful decisions; whilst leading and delivering innovation and continuous improvement in our core financial processes and systems.

As part of the Group Tax and Financial Accounting team, you will be responsible for driving the technical accuracy of all divisional financial reporting, and for ensuring compliance with Group Accounting Policies in both our historic and forward looking reports. You’ll lead the compilation of the divisional consolidated statutory financial reports, ensuring analysis is provided to drive commercial and strategic decision making and to add business value. You will also lead on the preparation of all forward-looking balance sheet information, including Business Plans and Budget, with a focus on ensuring forecast cash and reserves positions are accurate and reliable.

This is a senior level leadership role and is central in ensuring that TfL can deliver the Mayor’s manifesto commitment to increase value for money and improve commercial capability for the future.

We have two separate roles available, one is permanent and one is a 12 fixed term contract.

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Our Business Services processes are critical to the smooth running of our organisation. They underpin the efficient running of our daily operations, provide vital data and reporting that allow us to run our business, support our front line services to make decisions and forward plan. These services have historically been devolved across the organisation based in different functional areas. The creation of the new Business Services Function (BSF) marks a shift in the way in which we provide these critical services to our internal customers, with a focus on delivering end to end processes (which will sit across functional areas –BSF, HR and Finance). This signifies a new way of thinking for our organisation – moving to integrated, collective responsibility for service delivery with services which are easy to access and clearly understood by our internal customers.

The establishment of the Process Owner role will underpin the new operating model and will be integral to the successful delivery of end to end processes across TfL. The Process Owners will report into the appropriate Professional Services function and be responsible for the integrity of the end to end process, driving the growth and continuous improvement agenda with the senior leadership teams across BSF and the relevant function.

The Process Owner is ultimately responsible for upholding the design of the end to end (E2E) process and the delivery and performance of the process aligned to that.

This role is responsible for upholding the design of the Project and Fixed Assets end to end process and the delivery and performance of the process aligned to each.

As the Process Owner you will have the responsibility to ensure that the E2E processes support the associated policies. You will also act as the ‘data authority’ for their process, specifically for data quality. You will work with the operational Business Services Function (BSF) Team and retained Finance function to ensure that the E2E process is adhered to and that change control is managed and governed appropriately.

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