D365 Senior Finance Lead - Americas (Temp 18 Month Contract)

This role is responsible for supporting the Head of Finance Transformation to deliver the Finance Optimisation programme and in particular the migration of 50+ entities from legacy finance systems to our global ERP system, D365 within the Americas region. 

This is an 18 Month Contract. This position will require regular travel to our Rochester, NY site. 

The key deliverables of this role are to:

• Achieve a comprehensive grasp of the operational business and system solution design necessary for the successful implementation of D365, it is essential to facilitate the required changes in people, processes, and data across designated global locations.
• Develop and uphold an Global toolkit utilised for managing various stages of implementation at a functional and program level.
• Administer/deliver planned program activities within a demanding cross functional work setting, navigating unforeseen and evolving challenges in a flexible and responsive manner reporting into the Drive Deployment Lead and Program Team.
• Function as the key Finance SME effectively overseeing senior internal and external stakeholders to disseminate information, facilitate decision-making, and address any concerns or challenges.
• Demonstrate ownership and responsibility in the entire process of site implementations, starting from assessment and preparation, to ensuring readiness, executing the cutover/go live phase, and providing ongoing support.

Key Responsibilities:

Assessment:

• Support the Drive Program Team to introduce and launch the D365 deployment and methodology at site level. Work with the local site and cross functional teams to conduct an operating model assessment and deliver ‘To be’ global blueprint process awareness capturing any requirements.
• Capture site specific Localisation, Integrations, Data & mapping requirements, and work with Drive functional program partners to resolve cross functional challenges and complex processes.
• Produce a Gap Fit analysis and change impact strategy to form a complete cross functional solution blueprint to enable site confidence and buy in as well as group/program stakeholder sign off.

Preparation:

• Support the Finance Systems Team, Si partner and Rotork IT on system requirements development and validation. Execute a change management plan for organizational, process and data requirements.    
• Support SIT SAT and FAT testing and develop business readiness toolkit to reflect final solution design.
• Act as the link between the Local Site Team and the Finance Systems, Data Team to reconcile and harmonise target and source master and transactional data throughout all ETL cycles.

Readiness:

• Partner with the Local Finance Team and Finance systems Team to develop a comprehensive Cutover plan for Master Transactional Data.
• Develop and support delivery of a robust and effective Training plan for all Finance modules covering D365 and business process. 
• Successfully manage and deliver User Acceptance Testing for Global Blueprint and Localization functionality partnering Rotork IT and Local Site Team.
• Manage Final Solution acceptance cutover execution to ensure all prerequisites of Go live have been satisfied. 

Cutover & Go live:

• Manage the Local Team though Go-Live and Adoption providing hyper care support via established business channels, defect resolution, service transition into BAU capturing CI and lessons learned to be implemented into proceeding deployment planning or site specific continuous improvement actions.

Essential

• Senior Qualified accountant or qualified by experience
• Strong awareness of key accounting concepts
• Good level of knowledge and experience of key Finance processes including Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Fixed Assets, Record to Report, Payroll & Expenses Management across large finance systems such as Oracle, SAP, Microsoft etc
• Comfort working in a high pressure environment, in agile and dynamic way to tackle unexpected & emerging issues
• Demonstrable track record, and sufficient gravitas and experience, to deliver positive, high impact business outcomes and change
• Experience project managing the implementation of a Finance system, D365
• Experience working on a large change project or upgrade of an ERP system
• Experience managing senior internal & external stakeholders to provide information, drive decisions and resolve issues

Desirable

• Experience of D365
• Rotork Finance experience
• Experience managing core finance teams potentially as a Financial Controller.
• Knowledge of Project Accounting, Stock & Costing Processes in a manufacturing environment
• Experience of the RPA automation technology, Power Automate

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Rotork is the market-leading global flow control and instrumentation company, helping our customers manage the flow or liquids, gases and powders across many industries worldwide.

Our purpose is Keeping the World Flowing for Future Generations.

For over sixty years, the world has relied on us to create the things that keep everything moving. From oil and gas to water and shipping, pharmaceuticals and food- these are the flows on which our modern world depends.

Today we're respected and admired for our people, performance and products. Our success flows from our commitment to engineering excellence, and that's what we will always pursue, safely and sustainably.

Rotork is going through an exciting period of change and growth, building on our existing market success. It's a great time to join us and make an impact in shaping the future of our business.