Sr. Finance Transformation Lead

Sr. Finance Transformation Lead | Enterprise ERP Project

Employment Type:

Full Time Contract (5 years)

Division:
Grain

Location:

Winnipeg, MB, Cambridge/Guelph, ON, or another P&H office in Canada

Parrish & Heimbecker, Limited (P&H) is a Canadian, family-owned company with over 115 years in agriculture. We operate across four divisions:
Grain & Crop Inputs, Flour Milling, P&H Foods, and New-Life Mills, delivering trusted solutions from crop inputs and grain handling to flour milling, livestock nutrition, and egg production. By connecting Canadian farms to tables across the country and beyond, we’re committed to quality, innovation, and sustainability as we shape the future of food and agriculture.

Grain & Crop Inputs: The Grain & Crop Inputs Division connects Canadian farmers to markets across the country and beyond. With a network of grain elevators, terminals, and agri-retail locations, we provide crop inputs, agronomic solutions, and grain marketing expertise to help producers succeed.

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.

• Serve as the senior finance representative on the enterprise ERP project team, providing leadership, subject matter expertise, and decision support across finance-related work streams.
• 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…