# Senior Finance Associate - Finance Transformation (12-month fixed-term contract)

**Company**: Capital One
**Location**: Nottingham, Eng
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a dynamic, self-motivated finance professional to join our UK Finance team on a 12-month fixed-term contract.

As a Senior Finance Associate - Finance Transformation, you will play a crucial role in driving the end-to-end technical execution of complex strategic initiatives. You will act as a dedicated Finance Transformation Lead, translating between finance data and systems requirements to deliver solutions that scale.

**Responsibilities:**

- Project Leadership: Lead finance-based projects, navigating governance routines and managing RAIDD items.

- Rigorous Execution: Drive key project testing cycles, managing UAT and Close Simulation test scenarios efficiently to strict deadlines.

- Proactive Problem Solving: Identify system blockers early, develop workarounds, and communicate the impact to other Lines of Business.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with UK and enterprise teams to resolve issues and represent UK Finance's interests.

- Clear Communication: Focus and highlight key points with transparency when communicating complex project statuses to stakeholders.

- Data-Driven Insights: Generate meaningful insights, analysing qualitative and quantitative data to ensure data integrity.

- Core Finance Support: Provide general finance support and remediations as priorities are balanced during this transition.

**Requirements:**

- Proven experience in traditional finance processes combined with a strong project management or systems implementation background.

- Experience with general finance concepts, tools, and financial systems is highly preferred.

- Strong aptitude and adaptability to learn new systems.

- Ability to navigate difficult stakeholder situations and comprehensively consider the impact of decisions on other partner groups.

- Proactive mindset to identify problems, drive independent solutions, and influence your team to shape better outcomes.

- Collaborative approach, focused on building strong, connected working relationships.

- Strong focus on driving process improvement and a willingness to embrace new technology and AI to unlock operational efficiencies.

**Nice-to-Have Skills:**

- Experience specifically with Workday Financials.

**Work Environment:**

- This is a 12-month fixed-term position based in our Nottingham offices.

- Hybrid approach: you'll spend three days a week in our purpose-built office and have the option to work from home on Mondays and Fridays.

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- finance processes
- financial systems
- data analysis
- communication

### Nice to have
- Workday Financials

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