Finance Transformation Programme Lead

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🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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QIMA

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2005

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

💰 Private equity on 2025-04

Food & Beverage • Healthcare • Consulting

QIMA is a global quality assurance and compliance company that provides testing, inspections, audits, certifications, laboratory services and supply-chain due diligence for consumer products, food/agri commodities and life sciences. It combines a global network of on-the-ground inspectors and laboratories with digital tools (including QIMAone SaaS) and offers services such as chemical and microbiological testing, pre-shipment inspections, supplier audits, sustainability/ESG solutions, pre-clinical and bioanalytical testing, and cybersecurity advisory and training. QIMA helps businesses ensure product safety, regulatory compliance and supply-chain transparency across international markets.

📋 Description

• Own the single integrated plan across FY27 finance transformation programmes • Set sequencing and priorities, making dependencies, decision points, delivery gates and build capacity visible • Coordinate delivery across programmes and address issues early • Align demand with offshore build capacity alongside the Senior ERP Manager • Own finance integration plans for acquisitions from Day 1 readiness through handover • Coordinate entity onboarding, chart of accounts mapping, close activities and finance readiness requirements • Work with country finance teams and stakeholders to resolve issues and maintain momentum • Ensure each integration has a funded knowledge-capture deliverable • Hand delivery to the named run-side integration lead after agreed outcomes and handover requirements are complete • Maintain the portfolio RAID log with owners and actions for risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies • Identify slippage and drive recovery within agreed tolerances • Escalate threshold breaches and propose recovery plans or re-baselines to the Director • Prepare weekly reporting for the Director and monthly programme board • Provide evidence for quarterly outcomes assessments • Act as day-to-day delivery contact for country finance teams, finance function owners and vendors • Resolve delivery disputes involving country finance or stakeholders outside Finance • Build senior stakeholder confidence through clear communication, fact-based reporting and follow-through • Balance global standards with local finance realities and statutory requirements • Lead, coach and develop project managers across the portfolio • Establish a consistent delivery method, governance rhythm and templates • Promote knowledge sharing and capture lessons from migrations • Coordinate evidence for go/no-go decisions • Ensure readiness risks are visible and owned before critical gates • Produce complete handover packs for run owners • Obtain run-owner sign-off to formally end delivery responsibility

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience leading complex finance transformation, ERP or business change programmes • Strong programme planning and dependency management skills across multiple workstreams • Experience managing acquisition or entity integrations, ideally from Day 1 through to operational handover • Confidence working with senior stakeholders, country finance teams, vendors and delivery teams • Track record of identifying risks early and recovering delivery when plans move off track • Highly structured, outcome-focused and comfortable managing ambiguity • Credible partner to senior finance, technology and business leaders • Relentless on clarity, pace and delivery discipline • Experience leading finance integration for acquisitions from Day 1 readiness through entity onboarding and close to handover • Experience delivering ERP or finance transformation programmes end to end in a multi-entity group, with several workstreams and dependencies running simultaneously • Finance knowledge sufficient to challenge country finance directors on dates and scope, including record to report, month-end close, statutory and tax reporting • Experience running delivery with offshore build teams across time zones • Experience leading project managers or a PMO • Experience as senior delivery lead under a design authority, deciding how delivery runs and escalating scope, design or outcome changes • Experience handing programmes to a named run owner with formal acceptance • Ability to brief a CFO on status and risk in plain terms • Fluent English • Knowledge of NetSuite or Oracle preferred • Experience building a repeatable integration playbook preferred • Experience with Brazil or regulatory change programmes such as e-invoicing preferred • Recognised programme method certification preferred • Portuguese preferred • CV must be submitted in English

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work permitted • Hybrid workplace type • Opportunity to shape Finance Transformation delivery across an international group • Collaboration with international teams across Europe, Brazil, the Philippines and other group locations • Professional development through leading, coaching and developing project managers • Opportunity to establish consistent delivery methods, governance rhythms and reusable templates