OPEN: Finance Modernization Workstream Lead

Job Overview

• End-to-End Leadership: Lead the Finance workstream through all phases of the SAP S/4HANA implementation lifecycle, from initial planning and requirements gathering to go-live and post-implementation support.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as the key liaison between finance business stakeholders, the system integrator, and project teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment on business needs and priorities.
• Business Process Design: Facilitate workshops and meetings to define, document, and optimize finance and accounting business processes, ensuring alignment with S/4HANA best practices and organizational objectives.
• Hands-On Data Activities: Actively participate in finance data preparation, cleansing, migration, validation, and reconciliation to ensure data quality and integrity.
• Testing & Quality Assurance: Develop and execute test plans, lead business process and user acceptance testing, and ensure timely resolution of defects and issues.
• Training & Change Management: Build training materials and deliver hands-on training sessions for finance users. Support change management efforts to drive user adoption and readiness.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Work closely with other business and IT teams to ensure seamless integration of finance processes with related functions.
• Project Delivery: Manage workstream deliverables, timelines, risks, and issues, providing regular updates to project leadership and proactively resolving challenges.
• Compliance & Controls: Ensure all finance processes and deliverables comply with internal controls, regulatory requirements, and company policies.
• Cutover & Hypercare Support: Provide hands-on support during cutover, go-live, and hypercare phases, troubleshooting issues and ensuring a smooth transition to new ways of working.

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), or equivalent accounting qualification.
• Proven experience leading finance workstreams in SAP S/4HANA or similar ERP implementation projects.
• Deep, hands-on understanding of finance and accounting business processes across the end-to-end finance function.
• Experience working directly with system integrators and cross-functional project teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead data migration, business testing, and user training activities.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field.
• Project management experience is an asset.

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