Head of Fiduciary Accounting Transformation

We are supporting a search for a senior fiduciary accounting leader to join an established international financial services group at a point of significant change.

The organisation supports a large portfolio of trust and corporate structures across multiple jurisdictions. Continued growth, increasing complexity and legacy delivery models mean the fiduciary accounting function now requires fundamental transformation.

You will take ownership of the fiduciary accounting operating model, leading its redesign while retaining oversight of technical quality, judgement and risk. Day to day accounting production will sit with your teams and your role will be to embed scalable processes supported automation and AI.

This is a rare opportunity with high autonomy to take end to end ownership. The role has international scope within a privately owned group, and senior exposure with genuine support for technology enabled change.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a full review of an established fiduciary accounting operation across multiple locations
• Design and deliver a phased transformation programme covering people, structure and process
• Redesign fiduciary accounting workflows to reduce manual processing and improve visibility
• Clear historical backlogs and embed sustainable delivery standards and timelines
• Identify practical use cases for automation and AI within fiduciary accounting, including data handling, reconciliation and review
• Act as the senior reviewer for complex fiduciary accounting judgements and AI generated outputs
• Lead geographically dispersed accounting teams through significant change
• Work closely with fiduciary administrators and client facing teams who rely on timely and accurate financial information

Key requirements

• Chartered accountant qualification
• Significant experience in fiduciary, trust or complex client accounting
• Ownership or oversight of accounting or finance transformation
• Experience working with offshore or outsourced delivery models
• Practical understanding of how automation and AI can improve accounting operations
• Gravitas and resilience to lead change in an established environment