Finance Transformation Manager

Company Description

Finance Transformation Manager

• FTC until June 2027
• Anywhere in Australia
• (no visa sponsorship given / successful candidates will need full working rights)

Let's create a more sociable future together

Endeavour Group is Australia's largest retail drinks network under the Dan Murphy's and BWS brands. We also run the country's largest portfolio of licensed hotels. Endeavour Group demerged from Woolworths in 2021 and as part of the transition is taking the opportunity to transform how we operate as an independent business and establish supporting technology.

We are looking for a Finance Transformation Manager for an ASAP start FTC role running until June '27. This role is integral to realising the Finance Transformation agenda and One Endeavour Program outcomes.

The ideal candidate would be a strong Finance professional or have excellent Technical Accounting skills, they would be a good user of SAP 4/Hana (Finance), and have been involved in an SAP 4/Hana implementation for a Finance function.

Job Description

What can you expect in the role?

As Finance Transformation Manager, working with the selected Implementation Partner and Technology provider, you will help lead the business outcomes for specific finance functions to deliver a successful implementation of our new SAP ERP.

This includes:

➢ Driving the design, build and deployment that fully delivers business requirements and re-imagines how Endeavour finance teams deliver as a whole. This includes the inscope systems and processes to deliver best in class for end to end finance functions

➢ Responsibility for identifying and delivering specific pre and post go-live ERP performance and success metrics including delivering business case

➢ Developing and executing enhanced specific financial controls and governance from current state to eliminate manual intervention

➢ Jointly leading efforts to streamline and transform specific core financial processes, proactively engaging all impacted teams to ensure acceptance and endorsement. Resulting in reduced time to complete month end and key financial processes, and deliver leading processes and business outcome indicators as part of the design

➢ Contributing to the successful delivery of all relevant project milestones, including build and configuration, data cleansing, data migration, and testing, by ensuring full engagement and collaborating cross functional to enable alignment with One Endeavour program, business (finance, merchandise and supply chain) and technology teams

➢ Oversight, motivate and leading of team members as required, which include training, development and performance management

➢ Upholding the Endeavour data governance framework by ensuring the data approach is fully aligned

➢ Pivotal to the development of business readiness and the criteria and approach to measure

➢ Embedding and implementing new ways of working and capabilities that jointly enable the delivery for Finance 2030 vision

➢ Partnering with the Finance Change Lead and collaborate with finance and business teams to drive change across the organisation, ensuring change plans are developed and executed

➢ Driving adherence to all One Endeavour program frameworks and policies.

➢ Influencing and modeling Endeavour Values and Ways of Working

Qualifications

How about you?

Ideally ....

➢ 10+ years experience in various financial accounting, external reporting and corporate finance teams

➢ Extensive experience with successful Finance technology programs (including SAP ERP implementations) with prior organisations, with ownership over core business processes and strong user adoption

➢ Passionate about automating core processes and unlocking teams from manual activities to drive value

➢ Results driven with the ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines; ensures alignment across supporting teams

➢ Strong critical thinking and problem solving

➢ Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, able to demonstrate deep subject matter expertise with senior leaders

➢ Demonstrated ability to influence, facilitate, and negotiate effectively and able to hold external parties to account to ensure outcomes achieved

➢ Strong leadership skills with a track record of mentoring and driving performance within a team

➢ Able to delegate and motivate others, track progress, and collaborate effectively with peers.

➢ Strong change management embedding new capabilities

➢ Data champion: ensures data roles and support delivered

Additional Information

The benefits are good too

We offer flexible working in every sense

• An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy's, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
• Monthly meeting-free days

• Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it's our first priority. You will have a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing

• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big.

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone's welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

What's in it for you?

We are together creators

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy's, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We're serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.

We're all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you're close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we'd love to hear from you.

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