Wilkins Talent Solutions Limited
ERP Finance Transition Manager
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ERP Finance Transition Manager
Location: Swindon, Wiltshire – Hybrid
Contract: 12–15 Month Fixed Term Contract
An established organisation based in the Swindon area is embarking on a significant business-wide ERP transformation and is looking to appoint an experienced ERP Finance Transition Manager to play a key role in the successful delivery of the programme.
This is a senior, hands-on transformation position requiring a qualified accountant with substantial ERP implementation experience within a manufacturing environment.
Working closely with senior finance leadership, the successful candidate will take ownership of the finance elements of the ERP programme, ensuring that financial processes, controls, reporting and data requirements are effectively designed, tested, migrated and embedded within the new environment.
The Role
As ERP Finance Transition Manager, you will act as the key link between Finance, the wider business and the ERP implementation team.
You will ensure finance requirements are clearly understood and translated into robust, practical system solutions, while providing appropriate challenge and guidance throughout the implementation.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Leading finance workstreams throughout the ERP implementation lifecycle
- Working closely with senior finance stakeholders to understand and prioritise business requirements
- Reviewing and redesigning finance processes for the future ERP environment
- Challenging and validating proposed system solutions
- Coordinating finance participation in workshops, design sessions and testing
- Managing finance-related programme risks, issues and dependencies
- Ensuring key finance deliverables remain on schedule
- Supporting finance data cleansing, mapping and migration
- Developing the chart of accounts and associated mappings
- Validating migrated financial data and balances
- Coordinating opening balance and cutover activities
- Supporting the development and validation of financial reporting, dashboards and KPIs
- Leading finance User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Supporting training and business readiness
- Playing a key role during go-live and post-implementation support
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Finance Process Areas
The role will have involvement across a broad range of finance processes, including:
- General ledger
- Order to cash
- Purchase to pay
- Fixed assets
- Inventory and costing
- Planning and production-related finance processes
- Banking and treasury
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Financial and management reporting
About You
To be considered, you will ideally be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with significant experience of delivering or leading the finance element of a major ERP implementation within a manufacturing business.
You will need a strong understanding of both finance and the operational processes that sit behind the numbers, particularly around manufacturing, inventory, costing, planning and production.
We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification
- Significant ERP implementation or finance transformation experience
- Previous experience within a manufacturing environment
- Strong management and financial accounting knowledge
- Understanding of production, planning and scheduling processes
- Strong inventory and costing knowledge
- Experience of finance process design and improvement
- Data migration, reconciliation and UAT experience
- Strong project management and organisational capability
- The ability to manage multiple priorities and competing demands
- Confidence working with senior stakeholders, operational teams and external implementation partners
- Excellent communication, facilitation and problem-solving skills
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Experience of complex ERP migrations, manufacturing systems or major business transformation programmes would be particularly advantageous.
The Person
This opportunity will suit someone who combines strong technical finance knowledge with a pragmatic and delivery-focused approach.
You will be comfortable challenging existing ways of working, influencing senior stakeholders and taking ownership of key deliverables. You will also need to be highly organised, resilient and comfortable operating within a fast-moving transformation environment where priorities may evolve.
Why Consider This Opportunity?
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced finance transformation professional to take a highly visible role in a significant ERP programme.
Rather than simply supporting an implementation, you will have the opportunity to influence how the finance function operates in the future, from process design and controls through to data, reporting and successful go-live.
12–15 Month FTC | Swindon | Hybrid Working
For further information or a confidential discussion, please apply through LinkedIn or contact Wilkins Talent Solutions.
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