Interim Head of Service Desk - London

  • McCabe & Barton
  • Oct 09, 2025
Contractor Telecommunications

Job Description

Interim Head of Service Desk - London

A leading financial services client is currently looking for an Interim Head of Service Desk for an initial 3-month contract position.

Skills and Qualifications:

Experience of supervising and managing a busy IT Service management function

Strong ITIL methodologies(Incident, Problem and Change management)

Excellent leadership skills to motivate and move the team forward

Strong Excel skills for reporting purposes

Agile/Scrum practices would be useful

Experience working in a customer facing role

3rd Party service provider management experience

Demonstrable experience of managing a function that provides end user support in a financial services environment

Experience providing resource for and working within a structured change management environment for project delivery

Experience defining and establishing service management workflows and processes aligned with the ITIL framework

Windows 10/11, MS O365, MS Copilot and Active Directory knowledge

Understanding of security platforms, strong Firewall experience

Good technical knowledge of Intune, AD, Azure, Compute, Storage and Networking

Duties and Responsibilities:

Ensure staff are exceeding expectation and are meeting defined metrics and or objectives that you have set

Ensure that the team is delivering BAU and project commitments

Train, coach, develop and mentor staff

Overall responsibility for 1st/2nd line support operations

Implementing a robust service management structure and service catalogue processes

Reporting and presenting at technology and business forums

If you have a Career history in delivering good quality service management and excellent leadership skills, please do reply with your CV in the first instance.