Manager, Finance Transformation

Role overview

Transformation delivery

• Lead day-to-day planning, execution, and delivery of the Finance Transformation stream.
• Maintain the roadmap by assessing current capabilities, identifying opportunities, reviewing industry practices, and translating priorities into project plans.
• Document current-state processes and facilitate future-state process, capability, control, requirement, and performance-measure design.
• Coordinate finance system enhancements, automation, reporting, master data management, and data governance with relevant teams and vendors.
• Ensure finance needs and data dependencies are incorporated in solution design, development, testing, and implementation.
• Lead Finance through discovery, design, configuration reviews, testing, data validation, training, deployment, stabilization, and operational handover.

Stakeholder and change leadership

• Coordinate Finance experts, project resources, consultants, vendors, and business stakeholders to achieve milestones.
• Monitor progress, mitigate risks, resolve issues, and escalate concerns.
• Support organizational readiness, communications, training, user adoption, and transition of new processes and systems into Finance operations.
• Drive continuous improvements to Finance processes, controls, reporting, and operational efficiency.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of progressive finance experience, including finance systems, process improvement, transformation, and/or modernization.
• Strong FP&A and Operational Finance experience and demonstrated cross-functional project leadership.
• Significant experience with ERP systems, FP&A platforms, and other finance technologies.
• Strong understanding of monthly close, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial reporting, and internal controls.
• CPA or equivalent accounting designation is preferred; relevant project, process improvement, or change management certifications are considered assets.

Additional capabilities

• Working knowledge of ERP systems, reporting and analytics tools, automation solutions, and finance technologies.
• Able to work with technical teams on models, requirements, and solutions in specialized finance systems.
• Project delivery capability across workplans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and competing priorities.

Work location

• The position is based at Midland Transport's Moncton Refrigerated DC office.