Finance System Initiatives Lead

Job Description Summary

The Finance System Initiatives Lead will lead global e-invoicing, regulatory compliance, and country localization initiatives. The role translates statutory and regulatory requirements into scalable ERP solutions, coordinates validation and testing, and partners across Finance, Controllership, Digital Technology, business teams, and external advisors to support compliant implementation and ongoing operations.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Global E-Invoicing & Regulatory Compliance

• Lead global e-invoicing and digital regulatory compliance programs across countries, legal entities, and ERP platforms.
• Monitor regulatory developments, assess business and system impacts, and coordinate timely implementation of required changes.
• Identify, communicate, and support remediation of regulatory compliance risks.

Country Localization & Legal Entity Deployments

• Lead country localization projects to align ERP processes with local statutory, reporting, and invoicing requirements.
• Coordinate new legal entity and company code deployments, including functional requirements, configuration readiness, and cross-functional validation.
• Assess ERP and compliance impacts arising from organizational changes, acquisitions, divestitures, and legal entity restructuring.

ERP Design, Configuration & Validation

• Own functional requirements and design decisions for ERP configurations.
• Partner with Finance, Compliance, and Digital Technology teams to document, configure, validate, and maintain compliant ERP solutions.
• Perform compliance validations to confirm transaction accuracy, statutory alignment, reporting support, and control effectiveness.

Testing & Implementation Coordination

• Coordinate System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing for e-invoicing, localization, compliance, and legal entity initiatives.
• Define end-to-end test scenarios, confirm business requirement coverage, and facilitate business participation.
• Coordinate defect resolution, retesting, implementation readiness, and post-deployment stabilization.

ERP Governance & Project Coordination

• Lead ERP governance activities, including Request for Change evaluation, prioritization, and implementation coordination.
• Manage cross-functional project plans, dependencies, risks, decisions, and stakeholder communications.
• Ensure initiatives align with enterprise ERP standards, finance controls, and regulatory commitments.

Stakeholder & External Advisor Coordination

• Serve as the finance functional liaison across Finance, Compliance, Controllership, Digital Technology, Master Data Management, and business operations.
• Coordinate with external advisors and solution providers.
• Translate regulatory and business requirements into clear actions, design inputs, validation criteria, and implementation decisions.

Qualifications

• Strong Experience leading or supporting global ERP finance, e-invoicing, regulatory compliance, country localization, or finance transformation initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of ERP finance processes, system configuration, statutory compliance, and multinational regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, external advisors, and geographically dispersed teams.
• Strong analytical, project coordination, communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

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