Sr. Finance Transformation Lead

Sr. Finance Transformation Lead  | Enterprise ERP Project

Parrish & Heimbecker

Join our team that shares your Passion & Heart for Canadian agriculture! Parrish & Heimbecker, Limited (P&H) has an opportunity for a motivated, forward-thinking, and dedicated individual as Sr. Finance Transformation Lead .

Work and grow with a family-owned company.

Join our team with Purpose & History! P&H’s roots go back over 115 years. We have always been a Canadian, family-owned and managed agri-business that understands the qualities and conditions needed for meaningful growth. Our corporate culture values are family values; honesty and integrity with a focus on listening and continuous learning. Like family, we support our staff to always do better.
With over 80 locations spanning from coast to coast, and trade links around the globe, P&H is growth-oriented, diversified and vertically integrated with operations spanning across grain merchandising, flour milling, crop input distribution and animal feed production.

Benefits

Parrish & Heimbecker Ltd has a people-first approach therefore, we offer many perks to our hard-working staff! Some of our benefits include:  

• Learning and Development Programs
• Dental, Vision, and Extended Health Care
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off
• RRSP Matching
• Wellness Program
• Company Events

Your Role

As a Sr. Finance Transformation Lead, the successful candidate will be responsible for playing a central role in a major enterprise-wide ERP transformation across six distinct business verticals. Reporting to Enterprise ERP Program Leadership / Finance & IT Executive Sponsor, this role will represent Finance on the core project team, helping define future-state financial processes and align finance functions, policies, and procedures across all business units. The Finance Lead will help ensure the ERP solution supports consistent, scalable, and well-controlled finance operations across the enterprise. This role will lead decision-making on aligned finance functions, challenge legacy practices, and support new ways of working where enterprise alignment is required. The Finance Lead will also work closely with business users, divisional Finance teams, IT, implementation partners, and senior executives to support clear communication, practical decision-making, and adoption of enterprise-wide processes.

This is a full-time, five-year contract position based in Winnipeg, MB, Cambridge/Guelph, ON, or another P&H office in Canada , with flexibility to travel as required.

Day to Day

• Serve as the senior finance representative on the enterprise ERP project team, providing leadership, subject matter expertise, and decision support across finance-related workstreams.
• Lead the definition and documentation of future-state finance processes, including general ledger, chart of accounts, AP, AR, fixed assets, intercompany, reporting, budgeting, controls, and month-end close.
• Work with Finance teams across six business verticals to understand current-state processes, identify differences, and determine which core finance functions, policies, and processes should be aligned.
• Lead decision-making for aligned finance functions by evaluating options, framing trade-offs, obtaining input, and moving the organization toward practical enterprise-wide decisions.
• Recommend future-state solutions that may differ from historical divisional practices, while ensuring processes are efficient, controlled, scalable, and appropriate for the organization.
• Partner with IT, business analysts, implementation partners, divisional subject matter experts, business users, and senior executives to translate finance requirements into practical ERP design decisions.
• Apply project management discipline to finance workstream activities, including planning, issue tracking, milestone management, stakeholder follow-up, and escalation of key decisions.
• Champion consistent financial data structures, reporting standards, approval workflows, accounting policies, and internal control requirements across the enterprise.
• Participate in solution design workshops, configuration reviews, testing cycles, data migration validation, user acceptance testing, cutover planning, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Help define roles, responsibilities, process ownership, and accountability across corporate and divisional Finance teams in the future-state operating model.
• Lead change processes for accounting groups within each business vertical, including communication, stakeholder engagement, training support, issue resolution, and adoption of new ways of working.
• Promote practical adoption of ERP best practices while balancing the unique operational needs of each business vertically.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive finance, accounting, controllership, financial reporting, or finance transformation experience with a CPA designation.
• Prior experience leading an ERP implementation, finance systems transformation, shared services initiative, or significant business process redesign project.
• Project management experience, including the ability to manage deliverables, coordinate stakeholders, track issues, support decision-making, and maintain momentum in a complex project environment.
• Strong understanding of core finance processes, internal controls, financial reporting, account structures, intercompany transactions, accounting policies, and month-end close requirements.
• Experience in a complex, multi-entity, multi-division, manufacturing, distribution, agribusiness, food, or similar operational environment is considered an asset.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to understand both detailed process requirements and broader enterprise-level implications.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with both operational business users and senior executive audiences, including the ability to explain complex finance, process, and system matters in a clear, concise, and business-focused manner.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office tools; experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management or other large-scale ERP systems is an asset.

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We thank all applicants, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

P&H is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that is reflective of Canadian society. As a result, Parrish & Heimbecker, Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is in compliance with the Employment Equity Act. P&H welcomes and encourages applications from women, aboriginal people, people with disabilities and members of visible minorities. Accommodations in relation to the job selection process are available upon request for both internal and external candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment process.