Title:- Finance Transition Manager

Contract Duration: 3 months (Extendable)

Years of Experience: 10+ years

Location: Pune based only or ready to relocate Pune

Mode of Interview: Face to Face/Virtual Interview

Total Rounds of Interview: 2

Working Hours: UK Shift 1:30 PM to 10:30 PM

Travel Requirements: Potential requirement for approximately 2–3 weeks at the client's offices in UK.

Role Overview

We seeking an experienced, hands-on UK Finance Transition Manager to lead a small-scale transition of approximately 5–7 people and their associated finance and payroll responsibilities from a UK-based client operation into our company established delivery centre in Pune, India.

The transition covers five functional areas:

- Senior Management Accounting
- Management Accounting
- Purchase Ledger
- Accounts Payable Management
- UK Payroll Administration

This is a focused, short-term assignment requiring someone with demonstrable, hands-on experience of successfully transferring UK finance processes to India.

The successful candidate will take ownership of the transition from initial discovery and planning through knowledge transfer, process documentation, systems readiness, training, parallel running and final operational handover.

Working directly with the client's UK management and existing employees, the Transition Manager will ensure that the knowledge, processes, controls and systems required to undertake these activities are successfully transferred to the Pune team.

Given the relatively small scale of the transition, this is a practical, delivery-focused role rather than a large programme management position. The emphasis is on getting the right people, processes,

knowledge and systems in place quickly and ensuring a smooth, controlled transfer of responsibilities.

client already has an established technical presence in Pune, including core network infrastructure and connectivity. The focus will therefore be on ensuring that the specific finance and payroll applications, tools,



permissions and workflows required to support the transferred activities are available and operational.

The successful candidate will be expected to work independently, take ownership of delivery and provide regular progress updates to our senior management.

Scope of Transition

The transition will involve approximately 5–7 people undertaking responsibilities currently performed within the client's UK operation.

The roles and associated activities include:

Role

Key activities

Senior Management

Accountant

Management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, monthend close and balance sheet reconciliations

Management

Accountant

General ledger, journals, accruals, prepayments, reconciliations and financial reporting

Purchase Ledger Clerk

Supplier invoice processing, purchase order matching, supplier queries,

payment preparation and ledger maintenance

Accounts Payable

Manager

AP team oversight, payment controls, supplier management,

reconciliations, reporting and process governance

Senior Payroll

Administrator

UK payroll processing, payroll reconciliations, employee data changes,

statutory deductions and payroll reporting The Transition Manager will be responsible for understanding the current operating arrangements and ensuring that the activities can be undertaken effectively and consistently from Pune.

Key Responsibilities

A. Transition Planning & Delivery

- Take ownership of the end-to-end transition of the identified UK finance and payroll activities into our Pune delivery centre.
- Develop a practical transition plan covering activities, responsibilities, milestones,

dependencies and target completion dates.




- Work directly with UK management and existing role holders to understand the current operating model and agree the approach to transferring responsibilities.
- Establish explicit priorities and manage the transition against the relatively short delivery timeframe.
- Identify risks, issues and dependencies and take appropriate action to resolve them.
- Ensure continuity of service to the client throughout the transition.
- Provide regular progress updates to our COO, CEO or CDO.

B. Process Discovery & Documentation
- Undertake detailed discovery of the existing finance and payroll processes.
- Understand transaction volumes, workflows, responsibilities, reporting requirements,

approval processes and operational dependencies.
- Identify undocumented processes, exceptions, manual interventions and key-person dependencies.
- Ensure appropriate Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), process maps and work instructions are produced.
- Identify opportunities to standardise and improve processes as part of the transition.
- Ensure the Pune team has a clear understanding of the processes and responsibilities it will be taking over.

C. Knowledge Transfer & Training
- Lead and coordinate the knowledge transfer process between UK-based employees and the

Pune team.
- Develop a structured knowledge transfer and training plan for each functional area.
- Ensure knowledge transfer covers routine activities, complex transactions and exception handling.
- Work closely with existing UK employees to capture practical knowledge and business-specific requirements.
- Monitor training progress and assess the readiness and competence of the Pune-based team.
- Arrange supervised processing and practical testing to demonstrate operational capability.
- Identify and address knowledge gaps before responsibilities are formally transferred.

D. Systems & Application Readiness
- Identify the specific finance, accounting, payroll and workflow applications required to support the transferred activities.
- Work with our existing Pune IT and technical resources

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