Finance Operations Transformation Consultant in Leicester - Macildowie Recruitment and Retention

Finance Operations Transformation Consultant | 6-12 Month Contract | 5 Days On-Site | Day Rate Contractors

We are recruiting multiple roles to support a large-scale ERP transformation within a complex, multi-site operational environment.

This is a contract opportunity focused on operational finance testing and financial integrity validation during a major system implementation.

This is not a commercial finance or FP&A role.

The Role

You will play a critical role in running and challenging finance-led testing across end-to-end operational processes, ensuring the new ERP system accurately reflects real-world transactional activity before go-live.

You will be responsible for validating financial flows across:

• Sales & revenue (store and online environments)
• Stock & inventory movements
• Cost of goods sold (COGS)
• Accounts Payable & supplier payments
• Accounts Receivable & refunds
• Payroll integrations
• End-to-end P&L and balance sheet impact

This role requires strong accounting judgement and operational finance understanding - not just systems exposure.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute and challenge finance testing scripts
• Analyse and validate journal postings
• Confirm correct debit/credit flow through the ledger
• Identify financial control gaps and escalate issues
• Stress-test real-life operational scenarios
• Review financial impact across P&L and balance sheet
• Liaise with SMEs and project stakeholders
• Retest fixes and validate system outputs

You must be comfortable challenging assumptions and pushing back where financial risk is identified.

Essential Experience Required

We are specifically looking for contractors with:

• Proven ERP transformation experience (Oracle highly desirable)
• Direct involvement in finance testing or system validation
• Strong operational finance background
• Experience within large, multi-site, high-volume environments
• Deep understanding of P&L mechanics and debits/credits
• Strong reconciliation experience
• Advanced Excel skills (Power Pivot essential)
• Ability to analyse large data sets
• Experience identifying financial control risks

Highly desirable:

• Audit background
• Retail or high-volume transactional industry exposure
• SQL experience

The Person

You will be:

• A qualified or highly experienced accountant (QBE considered)
• A self-starter with strong ownership mindset
• Comfortable working in a high-pressure, deadline-driven environment
• Assertive and confident in challenging stakeholders
• Available to work 5 days on-site
• Flexible to work additional hours during critical project phases

This is a delivery-focused contract role requiring resilience, accountability, and strong commercial awareness.

Contract Details

• 6-12 month contract
• £ - Consultative Day Rate
• 5 days on-site
• Start: ASAP
• Multiple hires required

This is a high-profile transformation project offering exposure to complex operational finance systems within a large-scale organisation.

If you have genuine ERP transformation experience and strong operational finance depth, we would like to hear from you.

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