Finance Transformation Manager (ERP & Finance Systems)

About the role

Requirements

• - A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent) or a finance professional with an equivalent depth of practical accounting experience.
• - Proven track record delivering ERP and finance system implementations or migrations end to end, including at least one full lifecycle as a lead or senior workstream owner.
• - Strong hands-on experience with SAP (S/4HANA, SAP FI/CO, SAP BTP) and/or comparable ERP platforms such as Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, NetSuite or Workday Financials.
• - Demonstrable experience in as-is process mapping and to-be process design, using recognised techniques and notation (BPMN or similar).
• - Practical experience of billing, sub-ledger, premium accounting or receivables/payables engines, ideally in insurance, MGA, broking or financial services.
• - Strong understanding of financial controls, reconciliations, period-end close and statutory reporting.
• - Working knowledge of finance data structures, data migration and reconciliation, with the ability to interrogate data directly (SQL or equivalent) as a strong plus.
• - Familiarity with IFRS, and exposure to insurance-specific accounting concepts (premium recognition, IBA/client money, reinsurance settlements) is a distinct advantage.
• - Experience of Agile or hybrid delivery environments and comfort working alongside product and engineering teams.
• - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with credibility at both operational finance and executive level.
• - A bachelor's or master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Information Systems or a related discipline.
• - At minimum 8 years of relevant experience, including at least 4 years focused on finance systems implementation or finance transformation.

Responsibilities

• - Document and analyse as-is finance processes across the record-to-report, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, premium accounting, billing, settlement and treasury cycles.
• - Identify pain points, manual workarounds, control weaknesses and reconciliation burdens across ATOM FICA, the Billing Engine and SAP ERP.
• - Design to-be process models that simplify, standardise and automate finance operations, aligned to the target system architecture and to group accounting policy.
• - Produce process documentation, data flow diagrams, control matrices and functional requirement specifications to a standard suitable for vendor selection and audit.
• - Define selection criteria, run structured RFI/RFP processes, and evaluate ERP, billing, sub-ledger, reconciliation, tax and reporting solutions against functional, technical, regulatory and commercial requirements.
• - Build business cases, TCO models and implementation roadmaps to support investment decisions at executive and board level.
• - Assess build-versus-buy trade-offs, including where capability should sit natively within ATOM versus in a third-party finance system.
• - Manage vendor evaluation, proof-of-concept exercises, reference checks, and contract and SOW negotiation support alongside Procurement and Legal.
• - Lead or co-lead end-to-end finance system implementations, covering scoping, configuration, integration design, testing, cutover and hypercare.
• - Own the finance workstream within wider transformation programmes, managing scope, plan, budget, dependencies, risks and issues.
• - Define and oversee chart of accounts design, ledger structures, cost centre and profit centre hierarchies, and multi-entity and multi-currency configuration.
• - Specify and validate integrations between the finance platform, ATOM's insurance operating system, banking channels, and downstream reporting and data platforms.
• - Design and govern the finance data migration approach, including data mapping, cleansing, opening balance strategy, reconciliation and sign-off.
• - Ensure the target design embeds appropriate financial controls, segregation of duties, approval workflows and audit trails.
• - Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards (IFRS), statutory and regulatory reporting obligations, UAE VAT and corporate tax requirements, and DIFC/DFSA expectations where relevant.
• - Support internal and external audit requirements arising from the transformation
• - Develop and deliver training materials, user guides, process manuals and workshops for finance and operational users.
• - Drive user adoption through structured change management, stakeholder engagement and post-go-live support.
• - Establish ways of working, ownership and governance for the finance system landscape after go-live, including a continuous improvement backlog.
• - Partner with Finance, Underwriting Operations, Claims, Product, Engineering and Data teams to ensure finance requirements are properly reflected in the platform.
• - Translate accounting and regulatory requirements into clear technical specifications, and technical constraints into terms Finance stakeholders can act on.
• - Report progress, risks and decisions clearly to executive stakeholders, and escalate early where scope or timelines are at risk.

Skills

• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP FI/CO
• SAP BTP
• Oracle ERP
• Microsoft Dynamics 365
• NetSuite
• Workday Financials
• BPMN
• SQL
• Data migration
• IFRS
• Premium accounting
• Receivables/payables
• Financial controls
• Regulatory reporting