Benefits
- 12-18 Month contract
- Salary £70,000 - £85,000 (Potential Day Rate Outside of IR35)
- Hybrid Working / Potential Remote Working
- Start Dec / Jan
Role Brief
NC Associates are working with a well-established, growing organisation to recruit an experienced SAP Finance Systems & Project Implementation Lead to support a significant finance systems transformation programme.
This is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional with strong SAP knowledge and hands-on experience of finance systems implementation. You will play a key role in connecting the UK Finance function with the wider project team, ensuring that business requirements are understood, processes are mapped effectively and the new systems deliver what the finance team needs.
The role will combine project coordination, finance systems expertise and practical operational support, making it ideal for someone who enjoys working across finance, systems and business change.
Duties
- Working closely with the Group FD and wider project team, your responsibilities will include:
- Acting as the key point of contact between the UK Finance function and the wider systems implementation team.
- Supporting the implementation and development of SAP and associated finance systems.
- Gathering, documenting and communicating finance requirements, system issues and process impacts.
- Mapping existing finance processes and helping define improved future-state workflows.
- Coordinating project plans, milestones, actions, decisions and outstanding issues, ensuring progress is tracked.
- Supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test scripts, evidence gathering, defect tracking and retesting.
- Helping prepare finance teams for system changes through clear communication, guidance and training.
- Supporting implementation readiness and post-go-live activities.
- Maintaining an understanding of day-to-day finance operations and providing operational cover where required to support project delivery.
Experience Required
We are looking for someone who brings a combination of finance knowledge, SAP experience and project implementation capability.
You will ideally have:
- Hands-on experience of SAP within a finance environment.
- Previous involvement in finance systems or ERP implementation projects.
- Experience of gathering business requirements, process mapping and supporting system design.
- Exposure to the implementation of systems covering areas such as timesheets, expenses and treasury.
- A good understanding of finance operations, processes and controls.
- Strong project coordination skills, with the ability to manage actions, deadlines, issues and competing priorities.
- Excellent communication skills and the confidence to work with stakeholders across finance and project teams.
- A proactive, organised and pragmatic approach, with the ability to pick up new systems and processes quickly.
- Experience in a project-led environment would also be beneficial.
- Strong practical understanding of finance operations and controls, with the capability to take on agreed day-to-day finance tasks following handover, enabling colleagues to participate in UAT without compromising core deadlines or controls.
Why apply?
This is a great opportunity to take a central role in a significant finance systems transformation programme, using your finance and SAP experience to influence how systems and processes are implemented.
You'll gain exposure to a broad range of stakeholders and work on a project where your input will have a direct impact on the effectiveness of the finance function.