ERP Functional Lead - Finance

Salary: $77,000 - 96,000 per year

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration; a CPA or CMA designation is strongly preferred.
• At least 7 years of progressive finance and accounting experience in manufacturing, including substantial cost accounting experience and at least one full-lifecycle cloud ERP implementation.
• Experience completing multiple major, full-lifecycle ERP implementations for manufacturing companies in a finance, costing, or finance-systems role is an asset.
• Hands-on experience gathering and documenting business requirements and contributing to ERP RFPs, vendor demonstrations, and selection.
• Strong manufacturing cost accounting knowledge, including standard costing, bills of materials, variance analysis, and inventory valuation.
• Experience with core accounting and reporting in a multi-entity environment; multi-currency and Canada–U.S. cross-border experience is an asset.
• Experience with ERP data migration, testing, and end-user training.
• Experience in food processing, agriculture, consumer packaged goods, or similarly complex manufacturing is an asset.
• Project management and/or change management expertise is an asset.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain, Infor Cloud Suite, IFS, QAD, Oracle NetSuite, or another cloud ERP system is an asset.
• Advanced Excel and Microsoft 365 skills; Power BI, Smartsheet, or similar reporting and project tools are assets.
• Knowledge of multi-entity financial reporting, consolidations, chart of accounts structures, internal controls, and Canadian and U.S. accounting practices.
• Expertise across end-to-end Finance processes, including Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, and Fixed Assets.
• Strong business process analysis, requirements gathering, process mapping, fit-gap analysis, and ability to translate business needs into system solutions.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement capabilities.
• Ability to develop and execute testing, training, documentation, and user-adoption activities.
• Excellent project management, prioritization, communication, and stakeholder-management skills in complex, cross-functional environments, including the ability to explain technical concepts in clear business language.
• Ability to build trusted partnerships and influence stakeholders across Finance, Operations, IT, and Supply Chain.
• Self-directed and adaptable, with the ability to balance project deliverables and ongoing business priorities and support standardization, organizational change, efficiency, data quality, controls, and user experience.
• Collaborative, respectful, and resilient approach, with integrity, a strong work ethic, and a willingness to contribute wherever needed.
• Valid drivers license, ability to travel independently, eligibility for cross-border travel, and ability to obtain and maintain a valid passport.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and facilitate Finance workshops, interviews, process walkthroughs, and requirements-gathering sessions across our Canadian and U.S. operations.
• Document current-state and future-state Finance processes, including gaps, manual activities, control weaknesses, systems, reports, integrations, and improvement opportunities.
• Capture requirements for multi-entity and multi-currency operations, consolidation, tax, reporting, statutory and regulatory needs, and internal controls.
• Partner with IT to define security, reporting, integration, and master data requirements, and deliver a complete, prioritized, traceable Finance requirements dataset for project milestones and readiness gates.
• Lead Finance requirements for manufacturing finance, inventory, and cost accounting, including standard costing, bills of materials, routings, inventory valuation, cost allocations, and variance analysis.
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to align financial and operational processes, and develop requirements for margin reporting, cost-to-serve analysis, planning, forecasting, and financial performance insights.
• Document existing and future financial workflows, approval processes, authorization controls, and system governance requirements.
• Translate Finance requirements into ERP RFP documentation, evaluation criteria, vendor questionnaires, demonstration scripts, and transaction scenarios.
• Participate in ERP software and implementation partner evaluations, assessing functional fit, methodology, risk, scalability, total solution capability, vendor responses, demonstrations, references, scope, and proposed approaches.
• Lead Finance participation in design validation, configuration assessments, and functional sign-off.
• Coordinate Finance data migration planning, validation, reconciliations, and opening-balance verification.
• Develop and execute Finance testing strategies, including integration testing, user acceptance testing, defect management, issue resolution, and sign-off support.
• Develop Finance procedures, work instructions, training materials, and user-support documentation; support change management, training, knowledge transfer, and stakeholder engagement.
• Participate in go-live planning, deployment support, hypercare, and post-implementation stabilization, including support for Finance teams through initial close cycles and the first post-implementation month-end close.
• Serve as the Finance lead and steward for ERP processes after implementation, maintaining process documentation, master data standards, costing methodologies, reporting structures, and governance controls.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, controls, reporting, and user experience, and support future ERP enhancements, integrations, and Finance transformation initiatives.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• ERP
• Excel
• Support
• Microsoft 365
• Oracle
• Power BI
• Security
• Office 365
• DevOps

More:

We are The Little Potato Company, an innovative, fast-growing business in a distinctive market, guided by our purpose to Feed the World, better through nutritious Creamer Potatoes. We value diversity and a collaborative team culture. We are hiring a permanent, full-time ERP Functional Lead – Finance to help select, design, and implement our future ERP platform and shape Finance processes across our growing North American business. This hands-on functional leadership role works across Finance, Operations, IT, Supply Chain, and external implementation partners, but does not include direct people-management responsibilities. Reporting to our Director of Finance, the role is ideally based at our Nisku, Alberta, or DeForest, Wisconsin facility, with a hybrid arrangement; fully remote candidates in Canada or the United States may also be considered. The schedule is Monday to Friday, with flexibility and occasional additional hours during important project milestones, testing, implementation, and close activities. Occasional travel in Canada and the United States may be required. The work involves extended computer use and frequent collaboration across teams, locations, and time zones. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits and retirement programs, and support work-life balance with paid Family Time Off and vacation. Benefits include casual dress, dental and vision care, an employee assistance program, on-site parking, paid time off, RRSP matching, and work-from-home options.

last updated 42 week of 2026