The ERP Implementation Lead for Finance will be responsible for co-ordinating and driving the development, design and delivery of the Finance workstream activities, to support the successful implementation of a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
Working collaboratively with the HR, Research Management, Digital Services and Stratus Programme teams to ensure that all Finance-related processes are aligned with the ERP system’s requirements.
They will also work collaboratively with third parties, including implementation partners.
This role involves managing change, supporting the transition, and coordinating all Finance functions and ensuring the relevant training, communication, employee data migration, and compliance requirements are fully met.
The role will be the “go to” person for the Finance workstream and will ensure that operational teams are up to date on workstream progress, and that cross functional input required is well-planned to minimise the impact on operations.
Key Requirements
The successful candidate must be educated to a degree level in a relevant field or have equivalent experience along with being a qualified accounted. Strong project management and leadership experience will be highly desirable.
Programme Information
The ICR is one of the world’s leading cancer research organisations, with a mission to make the discoveries that defeat cancer. To support delivery of an ambitious new strategy, the ICR has begun a programme of transformation to achieve our vision for an excellent and sustainable organisation, that is ready to meet the challenges of the future.
Stratus will be one of three key programmes (alongside growing our income and developing our estate) through which we deliver an excellent and sustainable organisation.
Stratus will support the organisation to adopt simple, standard and modern processes in the ICR’s everyday operations, underpinned by a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution.
The Stratus Programme has three key workstreams, Finance, HR and Research Management, each with an ERP Implementation Lead to support the Stratus Programme deliverables for their specialist function.
We encourage all applicants to access the job pack attached for more detailed information regarding this role. For an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Liam Blake.