Finance Transformation Manager

• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans for finance transformation initiatives, including milestones, dependencies, responsibilities, risks and decision points.

• Coordinate the integration of acquired agencies onto common financial systems, processes and reporting standards.

• Support the implementation of a group-wide consolidation system, from requirements gathering and planning through testing, deployment and stabilization.

• Establish effective project governance, including status reporting, working sessions, decision logs, risk and issue tracking, and escalation processes.

• Monitor progress against agreed timelines and deliverables, proactively identifying delays, gaps and competing priorities.

• Follow up consistently with project owners and stakeholders to ensure commitments are completed and issues are resolved.

• Work with Finance leaders and subject-matter experts to document current-state processes and define future-state requirements.

• Develop a detailed understanding of financial workflows across agencies, including the general ledger, month-end close, revenue, billing, accounts payable, payroll, intercompany transactions and management reporting.

• Help identify differences in agency processes, data structures and accounting practices that must be addressed before systems integration.

• Translate finance and accounting requirements into clear functional requirements for internal technology teams, implementation partners and software vendors.

• Support the standardization of charts of accounts, reporting dimensions, entity structures, policies and finance workflows.

• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, reduce manual work and improve the quality and consistency of financial information.

• Coordinate data collection, cleansing, mapping and validation activities required for system migrations.

• Maintain detailed trackers for data requirements, configuration decisions, outstanding items and implementation dependencies.

• Develop and coordinate testing plans, test cases and acceptance criteria in partnership with Finance stakeholders.

• Support user acceptance testing and ensure identified issues are documented, assigned, resolved and retested.

• Coordinate cutover planning, implementation readiness assessments and post-launch issue management.

• Ensure appropriate reconciliations and financial controls are incorporated into migration and implementation plans.

• Build effective working relationships across Tracxtion’s agencies and functions, including Finance, Operations, People & Culture and Technology.

• Facilitate working sessions with finance and non-finance stakeholders to gather information, resolve issues and advance project decisions.

• Communicate project requirements, progress, risks and decisions clearly to stakeholders with varying levels of finance and systems knowledge.

• Help agency teams understand upcoming changes, implementation expectations and their responsibilities within the project.

• Support the development of training materials, communications and transition plans to enable successful adoption.

• Develop and maintain clear process documentation, standard operating procedures, implementation guides and project records.

• Ensure key requirements, decisions and process changes are documented and accessible.

• Capture lessons learned and apply them to subsequent agency integrations and transformation initiatives.