Finance & Legal Transformation Manager
🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 6 May 2026
LOCATION
Keynsham
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Finance & Accounting
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion
SKILLS
ACCA/CIMA qualification
Project management
Stakeholder management
Legal entity rationalisation
Due diligence
Risk management
Power BI
Oracle
FULL DESCRIPTION
Finance & Legal Transformation Manager
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is seeking a Finance & Legal Transformation Manager to lead legal merger activity and restructuring initiatives across Belgium and Netherlands. This role involves managing resources, budget, and people, coordinating workstreams including Legal, Tax, Group, GBS, IT, and in-country teams.
Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities
- Responsible for the co-ordination of workstreams for each initiative, including Legal, Tax, Group, GBS, IT and In-Country Management Teams (HR, Ops)
- Robust due diligence and other prerequisite activity completed in preparation for the project
- Co-ordination of external legal and tax advisory including provision of financial and tax information and analysis as required
- End to end management of finance, tax, and operational activities for each transaction including implementation and maintenance of action plans, RAID and change control registers
- Work collaboratively with Integration Coordinators, SMEs in R2R, P2P and O2C, and GBS pillar leads to ensure the successful delivery of the projects
- Identify, manage and mitigate delivery, legal, tax, finance and operational risks, escalation of significant risks and issues via Restructuring SteerCo
- Working with Group functions to ensure readiness pre- and post-transaction
- Review and approval of accounting entries to ensure accuracy in our system of record
- Adherence to statutory, tax, and regulatory requirements through liaison with external tax compliance advisors
- Ensuring appropriate handover from GBS Integration to GBS BAU post transaction
- Support continual review, development and improvement of systems and ways of working
Experience/Qualifications
- ACCA / CIMA qualified or equivalent, minimum 2 years PQE
- Strong management accounting background required
- Highly organised with a proven track record of successful project delivery at Manager/Senior Manager level
- Previous experience of legal entity rationalisation desired but not essential
- Sufficient experience of finance, tax, regulatory, and operational matters
- Effective communicator with excellent stakeholder management at all levels; able to build strong relationships with colleagues in other countries and departments, and with third party advisors
- Confident in working with finance and legal experts, technically competent with the ability to think analytically in a logical and systematic manner and to contribute effectively
- Excellent presentation and written communication skills
- Strong IT skills and experience with Power BI and accounting reporting systems (e.g. Oracle)
What We Offer
- Work-life balance
- 26 days annual leave
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Initiatives focused on employee wellbeing
- Pension
- Discretionary Bonus
- Discounted staff pet care
- Dog Friendly office
- Free Parking available at Head Office
At [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] we are a committed to Diversity, Equality, Inclusion and Belonging. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are keen to hear from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions.
Contact
For questions, contact Wayne Liu at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal].
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