Finance Value Optimisation Manager

Finance Value Optimisation Manager | £700-£750 per day | Interim Contract

West London (Hybrid Working 3 days a week in office)
£700-£750 per day
6-12 Month Contract

Stanton House is partnering with a leading global business to recruit an experienced Finance Value Optimisation Manager on an interim basis.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-profile team and play a critical role in ensuring major investment programmes deliver measurable, sustainable value.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will support various stakeholders in providing  value optimisation support across a broad range of areas including AI, Technology and Innovation initiatives. You will be responsible for establishing governance standards, challenging benefit assumptions, overseeing ROI delivery and providing senior leadership with transparent, evidence-based reporting on value realisation.

This role requires a commercially minded finance leader who can operate independently, influence senior stakeholders and bring credibility to investment decision-making within a complex transformation environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Create, own and continuously develop the enterprise-wide Value Optimisation Framework, including governance standards, methodologies and reporting principles.
• Provide challenge and assurance over reported benefits, ROI forecasts, value delivery and benefit realisation outcomes.
• Review and approve Value Assurance methodologies, framework enhancements, business cases, benefit assumptions and programme value drivers.
• Oversee major transformation, technology, AI and procurement initiatives, ensuring delivery against approved investment cases and ROI targets.
• Identify, assess and escalate risks relating to benefit delivery, governance, reporting integrity and value realisation.
• Own the strategic governance and evolution of the organisation's value reporting and tracking platform.
• Drive consistency, transparency and auditability across enterprise-wide value measurement, tracking and reporting.
• Produce assurance reporting for senior Finance and Transformation leaders, supporting governance forums, investment committees and executive review boards.

About You

You will ideally be:

ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualified

• Experienced within Value Optimisation, Benefits Realisation, Commercial Finance, FP&A, Strategic Finance or Investment Appraisal
• Experienced reviewing and challenging business cases, investment programmes and ROI delivery
• Strong in governance, controls, performance management and financial analysis
• Experienced supporting large scale technology or transformation initiatives from a finance perspective
• Strong stakeholder management experience including supporting non finance
• Experience with Power BI or similar reporting and visualisation tools

This role would suit an experienced finance professional who enjoys operating at the intersection of transformation, governance and commercial decision-making, and is looking for a high-impact assignment within a large-scale transformation environment.