Finance Transformation Programme Lead

Company Description

At QIMA, we are on a mission to help our clients make products consumers can trust. We have developed compliance solutions for testing, inspection and certification (TIC) that enable supply chain agility, sustainability and product innovation. Our services are used by 30,000 businesses globally in the consumer products, agri-food and life sciences industries. Backed by 6,000+ dedicated Qimates worldwide, we bring local expertise and tailored support to every client. Our passion for service has made QIMA an industry leader for customer satisfaction, as highlighted by our exceptional Net Promoter Score (NPS).

Job Description

Location: Flexible, with collaboration across Europe, Brazil, the Philippines and other group locations  
Reports to: Director, Finance Transformation  

Make finance transformation happen

We are looking for an experienced Finance Transformation Delivery Lead to turn an ambitious FY27 change agenda into measurable, well-controlled delivery.

This is a high-visibility role at the centre of a multi-entity, highly acquisitive international group. You will connect strategy with execution across a portfolio of finance transformation programmes, ensuring that plans are integrated, dependencies are actively managed and teams are set up to deliver.

A major part of the role will be supporting acquisitions. You will lead the finance integration journey from Day 1 readiness through to a stable handover, working with country finance teams, functional leaders, vendors and an offshore build team. You will also help deliver major change across NetSuite, including chart of accounts and multi-book, O2C and P2P, e-invoicing and Brazil tax reform.

This is an opportunity to shape how Finance Transformation delivers change: creating a consistent way of working, developing project managers and bringing the right level of pace, transparency and accountability to a complex portfolio.

What you'll do

Lead the integrated delivery plan

- Own the single integrated plan across the FY27 finance transformation programmes.
- Set sequencing and priorities across each quarter, making dependencies, decision points, delivery gates and build capacity visible.
- Coordinate delivery across programmes so that teams can plan effectively and issues are addressed early.
- Work closely with the Senior ERP Manager to align demand with offshore build capacity.

Deliver acquisition integrations

- Own the finance integration plan for each acquisition from Day 1 readiness through to handover.
- Coordinate entity onboarding, chart of accounts mapping, close activities and related finance readiness requirements.
- Work with country finance teams and other stakeholders to resolve issues and maintain momentum.
- Ensure every integration has a clear knowledge-capture deliverable, with appropriate funding agreed before delivery begins.
- Hand delivery to the named run-side integration lead once the agreed outcomes and handover requirements are complete.

Provide strong programme control

- Maintain the portfolio RAID log and ensure risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies have clear owners and actions.
- Identify slippage early and drive recovery within agreed tolerances.
- Escalate when thresholds are crossed, including proposing recovery plans or a re-baseline to the Director.
- Prepare weekly reporting for the Director and the monthly programme board.
- Provide the evidence required for quarterly outcomes assessments.

Build trusted senior relationships

- Act as the day-to-day delivery contact for country finance teams, finance function owners and vendors.
- Be the first point of resolution for delivery disputes involving country finance or stakeholders outside Finance.
- Build confidence through clear communication, fact-based reporting and consistent follow-through.
- Balance the needs of global standards with the practical realities of local finance teams and statutory requirements.

Develop the delivery team and approach

- Lead, coach and develop the project managers across the portfolio.
- Establish a consistent delivery method, governance rhythm and set of templates.
- Create an environment where project managers can move between programmes quickly and work to a common standard.
- Promote practical knowledge sharing and ensure lessons from each migration are captured and reused.

Drive readiness, go-live and handover

- Coordinate the evidence required for each go/no-go decision.
- Ensure readiness risks are visible and owned before a programme reaches its critical gates.
- Produce a complete handover pack for the run owner.
- Obtain the run owner’s sign-off, marking the formal end of delivery responsibility.

The environment

You will be working in a complex and fast-moving finance transformation landscape, including:

- A multi-entity, acquisitive international group.
- NetSuite as the core ERP platform.
- Finance teams across Europe, Brazil and other countries.
- A significant FY27 M&A integration workload.
- Chart of accounts and multi-book transformation.
- O2C and P2P improvements.
- Regulatory change, including e-invoicing and Brazil tax reform.
- Distributed delivery, with build capability in the Philippines working EMEA hours.

This role is about making complex change happen. You will bring structure, pace, transparency and effective decision-making across the portfolio. Those responsibilities remain with the Director, Group Finance technical accounting, ERP and build teams, and the relevant function owners.

Why this role matters

You will have a direct influence on how Finance Transformation delivers one of the group’s most important change portfolios. You will work at the intersection of M&A, finance, technology and operations, helping newly acquired businesses integrate quickly while improving the foundations of the wider finance function.

Success in this role will be visible: clearer plans, faster issue resolution, confident country teams, stronger project managers and finance programmes that reach go-live with the right evidence and a clean handover.

Qualifications

What we are looking for

You will bring:

- Significant experience leading complex finance transformation, ERP or business change programmes.
- Strong programme planning and dependency management skills across multiple workstreams.
- Experience managing acquisition or entity integrations, ideally from Day 1 through to operational handover.
- The confidence to work with senior stakeholders, country finance teams, vendors and delivery teams.
- A track record of identifying risks early and recovering delivery when plans move off track.

Required

• Highly structured, outcome-focused and comfortable managing ambiguity

• Credible partner to senior finance, technology and business leaders

• Relentless on clarity, pace and delivery discipline

• Has led finance integration for acquisitions, from Day 1 readiness through entity onboarding and close to handover.

• Has delivered ERP or finance transformation programmes end to end in a multi-entity group, with several workstreams and dependencies running at once.

• Knows finance well enough to challenge country finance directors on dates and scope: record to report, month-end close, statutory and tax reporting.

• Has run delivery with offshore build teams across time zones, and has led project managers or a PMO.

• Has worked as the senior delivery lead under a design authority: decides how delivery runs, and escalates anything that changes scope, design or outcomes.

• Has handed programmes to a named run owner with formal acceptance.

• Can brief a CFO on status and risk in plain terms.

• Fluent English.

Nice-to-have:

• Knowledge of NetSuite or Oracle.

• Experience building a repeatable integration playbook.

• Brazil or regulatory change programmes such as e-invoicing.

• A recognised programme method certification, and Portuguese.

Additional Information

Does this describe you? Then we want to hear from you as soon as possible! Apply now with your CV in English and we can write the next chapter of the QIMA story together!