Senior Finance Process and ERP Consultant
Location: Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
Start Date: To Be Negotiated
End Date: 31st March 2027
Work Style: Hybrid, 40 hours per week, 5 days per week
Role Objective
Act as the Finance Subject Matter Expert within an ERP implementation project, leading the design of future finance processes and operating arrangements. Define a scalable finance target operating model for a standalone company and support the transition of accounting activities into effective in-house operations. Ensure the new finance organisation and ERP solution support accurate reporting, regulatory compliance, operational control, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of finance processes within the new ERP solution.
- Establish accounting policies, processes, governance, and internal controls for a standalone company environment.
- Define finance requirements and participate in ERP vendor selection, solution design, testing, and deployment.
- Develop the future finance operating model, including role descriptions and ways of working.
- Drive standardisation and improvement across Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, and Order-to-Cash processes.
- Act as ERP Super User and principal contact for finance-related system and process topics.
- Support business users through training, knowledge transfer, and change-management activities.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards, tax regulations, statutory reporting, and internal governance requirements.
Tasks
- Assess existing finance processes, service arrangements, controls, and organisational dependencies.
- Translate finance and reporting requirements into functional ERP requirements and solution designs.
- Support RFP preparation, requirements definition, vendor evaluation, and solution-selection activities.
- Design and document finance processes covering accounting, project accounting, fixed assets, investments, product costing, and reporting.
- Define controls and process responsibilities across Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and General Ledger.
- Plan and support configuration reviews, testing, defect resolution, deployment, and transition activities.
- Prepare training materials and deliver user support, knowledge transfer, and change-readiness activities.
- Identify opportunities for finance automation, AI-enabled processes, and continuous improvement.
Deliverables
- Approved finance target operating model, organisational structure, and role framework.
- Documented accounting policies, end-to-end processes, governance arrangements, and internal controls.
- Complete finance requirements and evaluation inputs supporting ERP selection and implementation.
- Designed, tested, and deployed finance processes within the new ERP solution.
- Transition plan and completed transfer of relevant accounting activities to in-house operations.
- Training materials, process documentation, and completed knowledge-transfer activities.
Project Documents
- Finance target operating model and organisational-design documentation.
- Process maps, policies, controls, role descriptions, and ways of working.
- ERP requirements, RFP documentation, and vendor-evaluation records.
- Solution designs, test scripts, test results, defect logs, and deployment documentation.
- Transition plans, training materials, and knowledge-transfer records.
Decision Authority / Responsibility
- Provide authoritative finance-process and ERP recommendations within the agreed project governance.
- Define and challenge finance requirements, processes, controls, and proposed solution designs.
- Identify and escalate material accounting, tax, compliance, control, system, and transition risks.
- Work independently while maintaining alignment with finance, project, technology, and business stakeholders.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in financial accounting, reporting, and month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing.
- Strong understanding of VAT, corporate taxation, and statutory reporting.
- Experience across Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, project accounting, fixed assets, and investment accounting.
- Hands-on experience as an ERP Super User, Finance Systems Lead, or comparable finance-system authority.
- Extensive experience delivering ERP implementation, upgrade, or finance-transformation programmes.
- Documented experience establishing or transforming finance organisations, including processes, structures, roles, governance, and controls.
- Strong finance-process design, standardisation, and continuous-improvement capability.
- Strong stakeholder-management, communication, training, and change-management skills.
- Able to operate independently within a changing and evolving environment.
- Fluent spoken and written Swedish and English.
- University degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or an equivalent discipline.
- Additional ERP, finance-transformation, or project-management education or certification is beneficial.
- Experience establishing finance functions in carve-out, standalone-company, or wider transformation environments is preferred.
- Knowledge of K3 and IFRS reporting frameworks is preferred.
- Experience within energy, infrastructure, or another asset-intensive industry is preferred.
- Experience with AI-enabled finance processes, automation, and ERP selection is advantageous.