Digital Finance Transformation Manager

Overview

In this role you lead the finance design for large transformation programmes, shaping the target operating model and enterprise structure. You own design end-to-end in client discussions, balancing standard processes with pragmatic customisation and driving decisions to closure. You connect finance leadership with AI-enabled delivery and platform choices, ensuring value cases and roadmaps are compelling to CFOs. You work across finance processes, master data, and integration, delivering measurable improvements in control, reporting, and efficiency. This is a client-facing design leadership role within a collaborative, fast-moving platform transformation team.

Responsibilities

• Lead fit-to-standard and process design for core finance processes (Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, Purchase-to-Pay, Acquire-to-Retire) and related areas
• Design and defend the finance backbone (legal-entity structure, chart of accounts, cost-centre/hierarchy) to support reporting and statutory needs
• Own the design end-to-end in front of the client, chair design conversations, present options, and drive decisions to closure
• Lead technology selection, vendor assessment, and build a defensible value case and roadmap
• Incorporate AI into finance processes and delivery, defining when AI augmentations are appropriate and ensuring data and controls readiness
• Ensure platform integration literacy, linking the finance core with surrounding systems and master data
• Shape operating model and delivery approach (design-thinking workshops, iterative solutions)
• Identify unaddressed client problems and contribute to origination and deal shaping

Key requirements

• 7+ years designing finance transformation on enterprise platform programmes
• Experience across multiple ERP/finance platforms
• Leadership in stakeholder management and design governance
• Ability to articulate trade-offs and defend design decisions in business terms
• Proficiency with finance platform programmes (SAP, Oracle or comparable) and integration concepts
• Understanding of AI implications in finance processes and data/control requirements
• Professional finance or accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent experience)

• ownership and accountability
• ability to navigate ambiguity
• strong stakeholder management
• finance platform programmes (SAP, Oracle, Workday; multiple ERP exposure)
• design-thinking and operating-model mapping
• AI-enabled finance process design

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